Featured Apple’s CarPlay is finally coming to Toyota

Thanks! (Slightly) better late than never. Do you have a link?

 

That would depend on how fast they roll out Entune 3 to new models. I believe the 2018 Camry was one of the first. Perhaps they will see a software upgrade in the future.

 

Does Apple CarPlay last longer than an Apple Phone - which a friend had hers superseded recently - no longer to get security updates etc, less than 4 years old.

 

Apple CarPlay has been out since 2014, just not in Toyotas.
I believe you need to plug the phone in using USB, though, not Bluetooth.

 

Here is another Avalon article.

2019 Toyota Avalon Gets Aggressive Amid Sedan Slump | News | Cars.com

 

Great news. I suppose it will make it to the Prius in 2019 or 2020.

And 5G will start to roll out this year. It will get very interesting by 2020.

Here's the Toyota press release.

Attainable Premium, Actualized: All-New 2019 Toyota Avalon Beams Effortless Sophistication, Style, and Exhilaration at the 2018 North American International Auto Show | Toyota USA Newsroom

 

Apple’s CarPlay is finally coming to Toyota and Lexus vehicles - The Verge
The company confirmed in a comment to MacRumors that CarPlay will show up in additional 2019 cars from Toyota and Lexus that run the company’s Entune 3.0(for Toyota) and Enform 2.0 (for Lexus) infotainment platforms as well. It has yet to clarify whether or not 2018 models already running those platforms will get support through a software update.

Damn us early adopters missed it.

I have used carplay in several rentals and i will say it works well. While im not an apple maps fan the convenience enough had me using Carplay. Also the spotify integration was cool.

 

I’m not a Toyota owner right now but I’m in the process of buying an EU Prime at the moment. I’m guessing that there’s not much chance that a retrofit option will be available for this!

 

Don't worry. we won't shoot the messenger

 

Some of Toyota's updates defy logic!

 

True. I'm beginning to suspect the choice was driven by Japan more than anything.

Android has the lion's share of the market in terms of devices in use, although it seems that Apple is more popular in Japan.

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True. I'm beginning to suspect the choice was driven by Japan more than anything.

Android has the lion's share of the market in terms of devices in use, although it seems that Apple is more popular in Japan.

At least they're not using Windows Phone (Microsoft is a partner in Toyota Connected.)

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My previous phone was a WINDOWS - it was great, very stable, I only rebooted it a couple of times in the 14 mths I had it (it died 6 weeks out of warranty - no fault of WINDOWS, but the manufacturer wasn't interested!!). Unlike my Android which needs rebooting a couple of times a week. The problem with WINDOWS phones - not many apps, though, I will say that they were mostly useful apps, not like the sheer quantity of ½* (½ star is generous with many) apps to choose from on Android.

 

I don't doubt your Windows phone was a good device. The original Nokia (now a carrier hardware company after acquiring Alcatel-Lucent) phones were outstanding, and the revived Nokias seem to be good, too.

Windows Phone never was able to capture enough market share to make the project worthwhile.

No matter how well they worked, Microsoft has had difficulties making successful consumer small devices, other than keyboards and mice.

Lack of market support killed WinCE PDAs. Those got clobbered by Palm. Zune never made a dent in iPod's market space, and multiple factors brought about Windows Phone's demise.

The jury's out on Surface.

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Apple currently has the longest support for any mobile phone - you'll be lucky to ever get the new Android update.