- New screenshots of Apple’s CarPlay 2 have just surfaced online
- They claim to show 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 – listening to music, using maps, that sort of thing. And the company has been teasing CarPlay 2 for forever, all with very little to show for it. Now, though, it looks like we’ve just gotten a glimpse of how it will work, including a series of widgets that will give you all kinds of options from your dashboard.
The leaked images were posted by a MacRumor employee Aaron Perris on X. There, Perris uploaded four photos of a rectangular dashboard filled with various widgets. All images were black and white, but it’s likely that the eventual CarPlay 2 release will feature a lot more color.
The first image showed a large, empty rectangle that can be filled with widgets. Some of these widgets were shown in the second image, which shows square widgets for the Clock, Weather, and Calendar apps. Perris also showed off a widget for a combined navigation and music display in addition to a standalone music player.
Despite this, Perris hasn’t revealed where these images came from or provided any further information about what we can expect from CarPlay 2, leaving us with a lot of questions to answer.
Where is CarPlay 2?
CarPlay 2 has had a long, bumpy road since it was first announced. Apple teased it at its 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and said it would release the updated system soon. Yet there has been nothing but radio silence since then.
In fact, Apple’s CarPlay website still states that the first models with CarPlay 2 will “arrive in 2024.” It’s clear that won’t happen again.
One reason for the delay could be that CarPlay 2 isn’t the same plug-and-play outfit as the original CarPlay. The first edition of the car dashboard system uses the same rectangular layout in every car, making it easy for vehicle manufacturers to incorporate it. CarPlay 2, on the other hand, promises a complete takeover of the dashboard, meaning Apple will have to work directly with each automaker to incorporate it into their unique layouts. That likely caused, at least in part, the delay in the rollout.
The reveal of the new CarPlay 2 screenshots should give Apple fans some hope that the work is progressing well. But without any word from Apple, there’s no way of knowing when it will finally make its long-awaited and long-awaited arrival.