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Apple CarPlay integrates iPhone features into a car's dashboard display. Hitechreports covers updates to its navigation, connectivity, and exclusive functionality compared to Android Auto.
How-To Geek dug into the settings menu and found four customizations most drivers miss. The McLaren F1 car icon is the flashiest, but the EV plug filter and offline-map controls may be the ones you actually use.
Google Maps on Apple CarPlay now includes a Gemini icon during navigation, letting drivers ask follow-up questions and report traffic by voice. The feature is live in the US now, with a global rollout underway, Google says.
Android Auto users are missing out on Apple CarPlay features like shared music queues, live delivery and sports updates, message reactions, and pinned conversations — all absent from Google’s in-car platform.