- Apple CarPlay is ready to assist video playback
- The replace shall be added with iOS 26
- Nonetheless, automakers might want to choose in to the characteristic
As with each iOS replace, iOS 26 will deliver with it some modifications for the CarPlay interface that seems when your iPhone is related to your automobile – and Apple has now quietly confirmed that a kind of modifications shall be assist for video playback.
This wasn’t talked about on the grand reveal of iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, however as noticed by MacRumors, it is now listed as a characteristic on the Apple builders web site. We’re anticipating iOS 26 to roll out to the plenty in September.
“AirPlay video within the automobile permits individuals to observe their favourite movies from iPhone proper on their CarPlay show once they aren’t driving,” the location says. “Combine assist for CarPlay with AirPlay video to allow this characteristic in your automobile.”
And that is the catch – automakers might want to allow this characteristic individually to the remainder of the CarPlay performance, so it is attainable that it will not seem in each automobile, and could also be restricted by native security rules world wide.
Maintaining
Movies would after all be too distracting for drivers, which is why this can solely work when a automobile is parked up. It is attainable that Apple hasn’t talked about it prior to now as a result of it is not sure how extensively that is going to be supported, at the very least initially.
The AirPlay streaming normal being applied right here is the default one deployed by Apple on its different gadgets, together with the Apple TV 4K field. It is price noting that whereas many iOS apps assist AirPlay for streaming, Netflix would not.
It is a transfer Apple needed to make actually: built-in choices from automakers like Tesla, BMW, and Mercedes already supply video playback, and the characteristic is on the way in which to Android Auto too. Apple will not need its CarPlay interface to fall behind.
We should always get extra particulars from Apple in the end. The general public beta for iOS 26 is because of launch any day now – which suggests anybody can take a look at out the software program prematurely – earlier than it is finalized and pushed out later this yr with the iPhone 17 collection.
