C7 gets Apple CarPlay and Android Auto

[wildbore]

Don't get me wrong. I, too, cannot imagine Audi updating the car with the new software. But when the FL was launched with the new MMI, Audi specifically made the point that one of the benefits of the new architecture is that the MMI functionality can be updated in existing cars to keep them current. They just missed out the additional one-word sentence "Theoretically." from the press release.

I suspect the marketing people just made a mountain over being able to do updates / over the air updates. I doubt Car Play will be compatible, but would love to be proved wrong. It's a whole new program rather than an update. For starters - does it even work without a touch screen?

The lack of touchscreen capability was my first thought, too. I have only used Apple CarPlay on a touchscreen MMI and it sort of doesn't make sense without one. However, I think that, if they had fitted a touchscreen to the latest facelift, we would have heard about it.

[W8PMC]

Don't get me wrong. I, too, cannot imagine Audi updating the car with the new software. But when the FL was launched with the new MMI, Audi specifically made the point that one of the benefits of the new architecture is that the MMI functionality can be updated in existing cars to keep them current. They just missed out the additional one-word sentence "Theoretically." from the press release.

I suspect the marketing people just made a mountain over being able to do updates / over the air updates. I doubt Car Play will be compatible, but would love to be proved wrong. It's a whole new program rather than an update. For starters - does it even work without a touch screen?

The lack of touchscreen capability was my first thought, too. I have only used Apple CarPlay on a touchscreen MMI and it sort of doesn't make sense without one. However, I think that, if they had fitted a touchscreen to the latest facelift, we would have heard about it.

That's a good point as surely the whole point is that CarPlay mimics the screen of your iPhone so would I'd guess have to be touchscreen. Only car I've used it in is the Gen 2 Porsche 991 & it worked a treat, although I didn't try it out it's functionality extensively.

[mat776]

No touchscreen - like on the new a4 works with wheel on mmi. Which does provide a little hope that FL with nvidia could very probably add the functionality with sw upgrade.