- New screenshots of Apple’s CarPlay 2 just appeared online
- They aim to display widgets designed for Apple’s car dashboard system
- CarPlay 2 has apparently been delayed and lacks a release date
CarPlay is Apple’s digital system for interacting with your car: listening to music, using maps, that sort of thing. And the company has been teasing CarPlay 2 for what seems like forever, all with very little to show for it. Now, however, it looks like we’ve just seen how it will work, including a set of widgets that will give you all kinds of capabilities from your dashboard.
The leaked images were posted by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris on X. There, Perris uploaded four shots of a rectangular dashboard filled with various widgets. All images were monochrome, but the final version of CarPlay 2 is likely to feature a lot more color.
The first image showed a large, empty rectangle that can be filled with widgets. Some of those widgets were shown in the second image, which showed square widgets for the Clock, Weather, and Calendar apps. Perris also showed off a widget for a combined navigation and music screen alongside a standalone music player.
Despite that, Perris didn’t reveal where these images came from or provide any more information about what we can expect from CarPlay 2, leaving us with a lot of questions to answer.
Where is CarPlay 2?
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CarPlay 2 has had a long and bumpy road since it was first announced. Apple teased this at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2022, saying it would release the updated system shortly. However, since then there has been nothing but radio silence.
In fact, Apple’s CarPlay website still says that the first models with CarPlay 2 “will arrive in 2024.” It is clear that that is not going to happen anymore.
One reason for the delay could be that CarPlay 2 is not the same plug-and-play kit that the original CarPlay was. The first edition of the automobile dashboard system uses the same rectangular design in all cars, making it easy for vehicle manufacturers to include it. CarPlay 2, on the other hand, promises a complete dashboard takeover, meaning Apple has to work directly with each automaker to integrate it into their unique designs. That is likely to have at least partially caused the delay in launch.
The reveal of new CarPlay 2 screenshots should give Apple fans some hope that work is progressing well. But without news from Apple, there’s no way to know when it will finally make its long-awaited and long-awaited arrival.
