Casey Liss
Dan Moren@caseyliss I'd like it to see if it can figure out when my stick shift is in park. 🤨
@dmoren I had the same thought, but I **think** it's based on location services not any sort of comms with the car.
But apparently it needs enhanced support on the car side regardless, so you and I are SOL anyway :(
@caseyliss The screen in my head unit is so small and low quality that this would be silly. But I don't loooove the idea of people watching video on these things. Someone will get around it. I wonder if they have multiple systems: check if you're moving with accelerometer/GPS and try to talk to the car if you can?
ChancerubbageThey’ve been using accelerometer to lock out iPhone functions for years now.
John Payne 
@Chancerubbage @dmoren @caseyliss I think car-dependent there is also feedback. For example in my 2019 subaru when the car was moving, my passenger could type into maps on the carplay screen. In my 2024 ford, the keyboard button isn't available when in motion. I don't think it's purely phone accelerometer/gps.
@john @Chancerubbage @caseyliss I've got a 2012 GTI that I retrofitted with CarPlay, so I'm pretty confident it knows almost nothing about the state of my car.
Fish@dmoren @john @Chancerubbage @caseyliss I did the same to my 2011 GTI, with an aftermarket Alpine, but it does know when I'm in park because I can't choose to add a new device to CarPlay unless the parking brake is on.
I'm not actually sure how it knows, I do also have a box in between that lets me leverage the steering wheel controls and I wonder if that's passing some info back to the head unit 🤔