- New screenshots of Apple’s CarPlay 2 have just appeared online
- They pretend 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, though, it looks like we just got a glimpse of how it will work, including a set of widgets that will give you all sorts of options from your dashboard.
The leaked images were posted by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris on X. There, Perris uploaded four images of a rectangular dashboard filled with various widgets. All of the images were monochrome, but it’s likely that the final 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 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 that, Perris didn’t reveal where these images came from or provide 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, bumpy road since it was first announced. Apple teased it at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2022, saying it would release the updated system before too long. Yet there has been nothing but radio silence since then.
In fact, Apple’s CarPlay website still says the first models with CarPlay 2 will “arrive in 2024.” Obviously, that’s not going to happen anymore.
One reason for the delay could be that CarPlay 2 isn’t the same plug-and-play outfit that the original CarPlay was. The first edition of the car’s dashboard system uses the same rectangular layout in every car, making it easy for automakers to include 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 weave it into their unique layouts. That likely caused, at least in part, the delay in rollout.
The reveal of the new CarPlay 2 screenshots should give Apple fans some hope that work is progressing well. But with no word from Apple, there’s no way to know when it will finally make its much-anticipated and long-awaited arrival.
