WWDC 2022: Apple dives deeper into autos with software for car dashboard

Apple Inc on Monday announced it would more deeply integrate its software into the instrument cluster on the dashboard of cars that will start shipping next year, while analysts and developers are keenly awaiting any hints about how a future mixed-reality headset might work.

Apple unveiled an updated version of its Car Play software at its annual software developer conference. The new software will for the first time power the instrument cluster on a car’s dashboard showing speed, directions and gas mileage. Apple said that automakers such as Ford Motor Co are planning to use the new software and that cars with it will start shipping next year.