Volvo XC40 Apple Car play

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eugen61
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globox wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:57 pm This will not be available out of the gate for Volvo cars.

Carplay will move the status bar to the bottom of the display automatically only if it detects an aspect ratio which corresponds to a Portrait screen.

Right now, Volvo's implementation is actually a landscape one, given that the width is larger than the height for the Carplay app.

So in order for this to work, Volvo needs to update their Carplay implementation and make it larger or at least resizable. Given the fact that Volvo didn't update Sensus to benefit from the APIs released last year in iOS 13, I seriously doubt they are still investing in the current infotainment (consider the fact that they are in the middle of a transition to the Android Automotive one - so they probably won't be supporting the current lineup with new features).

Sucks for us as customers, but that's the business they seem to be in.
You’re making an excellent argument, I completely missed the fact that we have landscape mode. So much for my wishful thinking...

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