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Originally Posted by DangerMUK
Hey Guys,
Is there any further updates to the wireless carplay products since you've started using them?
Did software make them more reliable/work with the steering wheel/drivers dash display?
Thanks
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I know some of the American Volvo owners on Swede Speed have them and the reception has been rather mixed by what I can tell. Not that I want to break any rules by cross posting etc but you might want to check them out - although I'm not 100% it's the same devices.
I got the impression it wasn't a patch on proper wireless car play which is a mature and relatively well supported product on some marques - BMW have had it since 2016 - especially when it came to multiple phones and switching between them.
WRT to dash display - that's a feature Volvo would need to support as an update to the car software I think. I might well be wrong here but I don't know if any manufacturor supports that yet - BMW is probably the most likely as they seem to push out apple updates fairly quickly.
Carplay and AA seem a bit of a strange and somewhat tense issue between Apple/Google and the car makers. On one hand people want it - on another why bother paying £1000s for mapping etc in the car if you can use google maps - I suspect this is one of the reasons why we won't see HUD/Driver display support for carplay very quickly. Certainly I always used to use the GPS in my BMW for directions as I got them in the HUD and was almost as good as google maps/waze etc, Sensus not so much isn't as good so it depends on where I'm going.