Apple Maps might be the reason you're still waiting for Tesla CarPlay

Just think of the Tesla and iPhone owner who loves their car for its speed and technology but secretly wishes their car had one of the most important features of almost every other car on the road: Apple CarPlay. This has been a major drawback for many Tesla owners for a long time, and because of it, some of them have even chosen to stick with other brands. But it appears the wait is almost over for those users, although a few technical difficulties are just keeping the finish line out of reach.

A partnership with some hurdles to overcome

According to Mark Gurman, Apple expert at Bloomberg, writing in his "Power On" newsletter, Tesla is still working hard to bring the Apple CarPlay feature to their owners. Tesla’s software has always been great, but they have realized that the addition of the Apple CarPlay feature to their vehicles has been a critical one to many of their potential customers who are also iPhone owners. Therefore, the decision was made to have the CarPlay feature function inside a window on the Tesla screen, although the mapping of the two different systems has proven to be a bit of a problem.

The technical roadblocks holding things up

However, the road to get there has not been exactly smooth. During the testing phase, Apple Maps and Tesla’s own navigation system were not exactly on the same page, which caused a whole mess for the company. As a result, Apple had to go back to the drawing board and fine-tune their Maps app for the Tesla hardware. These important changes were not made until the latest versions of iOS 26.

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