- New screenshots of Apple’s CarPlay 2 just surfaced online
- They claim to display widgets designed for Apple’s car dashboard system
- CarPlay 2 has apparently been delayed and has no release date
CarPlay is Apple’s digital system for interacting with your car – playing music, using maps, that sort of thing. And the company has been teasing CarPlay 2 for what seems like forever, all with very little results. Now, however, it looks like we’ve just gotten a preview of how it will work, including a set of widgets that will give you all sorts of capabilities from your dashboard.
The leaked images were posted by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris on X. There, Perris uploaded four photos of a rectangular dashboard filled with various widgets. All images were monochrome, but it’s likely that the final version of CarPlay 2 will feature many more colors.
The first image showed a large empty rectangle that could be filled with widgets. Some of these widgets were shown in the second image, which depicted square widgets for the Clock, Weather, and Calendar apps. Perris also showed a widget for a combined navigation and music display alongside a standalone music player.
Despite this, Perris hasn’t revealed where these images came from or provided more information about what we can expect from CarPlay 2, leaving us with plenty of questions to answer.
Where is CarPlay 2?
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CarPlay 2 has had a long and bumpy road since its first announcement. Apple teased it at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2022, saying it would release the updated system before too long. Yet since then there has been nothing but radio silence.
In fact, Apple’s CarPlay website still says the first models with CarPlay 2 will “arrive in 2024.” Obviously this won’t happen again.
One reason for the delay could be that CarPlay 2 isn’t the same plug-and-play setup that the original CarPlay was. The first edition of the car dashboard system uses the same rectangular layout in every car, making it easy for automakers to include. CarPlay 2, on the other hand, promises a complete dashboard takeover, meaning Apple must work directly with each automaker to integrate it into its unique layouts. This likely, at least in part, caused the deployment delay.
The reveal of the new CarPlay 2 screenshots should give Apple fans hope that work is progressing well. But with no news from Apple, there’s no way of knowing when it will finally make its long-awaited and highly anticipated arrival.
