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Apple Buried the Best CarPlay News in the iOS 27 Developer Notes

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Though WWDC didn't spotlight CarPlay this week, iOS 27 delivers a solid update: EV range integration, video apps and a new Audio MiniPlayer.

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Apple CarPlay wasn't center stage at the WWDC 2026 keynote on Monday, which leaned heavily on the new Siri AI, Apple Intelligence expansions and upgraded parental controls.

But buried in a dense list of changes and the developer-facing sessions, iOS 27 delivers a meaningful set of CarPlay updates. None of them is earth-shattering on its own, but collectively they're a genuine quality-of-life improvement for daily drivers.

I scrubbed through the patch notes and poked around the developer beta to see what's new and coming soon.

Better audio controls

The Now Playing interface is at last getting audio scrubbing. Touch and drag the progress bar to skip the boring part of a podcast, find the next chapter of an audiobook or get...

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