Apple CarPlay Killing It With Massive Custom Dash Upgrades

This doesn’t look like CarPlay at all, it looks like drivers just linked a laptop to hack into standalone engine management and loaded custom everything on the display. It’s incredible. Outside of the racing world, this level of customization isn’t seen at a consumer level and digital displays in cars are becoming uniquely personal thanks to this next-gen Apple CarPlay. In the past, Apple CarPlay has been a link to mobile iOS to present apps, icons, and navigation in a clean but predictable format.

While we liked Apple CarPlay and its progressive revisions, we also appreciated elements of Android Auto and manufacturers’ efforts: COMAND from Mercedes, UCONNECT from Stellantis, or the pioneering BMW Connected Drive/iDrive tech.

In this next version of Apple CarPlay, we see a massive LCD screen displaying a host of customizable parameters, data, colors, and ODBII information. Users can customize gauges for the car pulling OBDII data in a variety of arrangements and aesthetic ways from traditional analog to modern designs.