What Can CarPlay Do As Your Car Stereo
At its core, CarPlay is Apple's way of introducing iOS into the in-car infotainment system and dashboard. It's designed to display information from the iPhone on the car's built-in infotainment unit, providing a safe way for drivers to make calls, send text messages, listen to music and access maps - all things drivers may want to do while driving with an iPhone. Automakers have been building CarPlay support into cars since 2015, but there is also a way to use CarPlay in existing vehicles - many aftermarket built-in systems from companies like Sony, Pioneer, Kenwood and Alpine are CarPlay-compatible and readily available at reasonable at a reasonable price. Porsche even created an aftermarket system for 1960s Porsche models. More than 400 vehicles produced from 2016 onward include CarPlay, which covers most automakers. There are physical controls in the form of buttons and knobs that activate Siri for CarPlay purposes, but these controls vary from vehicle to vehicle depen