Apple CarPlay Not Working? How to Fix It in Your Car
Apple CarPlay makes using your iPhone in the car safer and more convenient — with navigation, calls, messages and music accessible via your vehicle’s infotainment system. But sometimes it doesn’t behave as expected: apps don’t load, the screen won’t appear, or connections keep dropping. If that happens in your leased or subscription vehicle, don’t worry […]
Getting Started with Apple CarPlay
Apple CarPlay Overview We’re a huge fan of anything Apple in the Cocoon Vehicles office and one of the most requested feature on a car we get asked nowadays is: “Does it have Apple CarPlay?” Believe it or not, when questioned, this is one of the features most customers cannot live without. The integration of […]
Apple CarPlay Widgets: The Most Useful Ones You Should Be Using
Apple CarPlay has become a core feature for many UK drivers, allowing compatible iPhones to integrate seamlessly with a car’s infotainment system. It provides access to navigation, calls, messages and media in a format designed for use while driving. With recent iOS updates, Apple CarPlay also supports widgets, giving drivers quick, glanceable information without needing […]
Android Auto vs Apple CarPlay: Which Is Better in 2025?
In-car technology has evolved faster in the past five years than in the previous twenty. Today, almost every modern vehicle — from a BMW i4 to a Mercedes EQA — comes equipped with Android Auto or Apple CarPlay as standard. But which is the better system in 2025? Whether you’re leasing an EV through Cocoon […]
Apple CarPlay Ultra Has Arrived– What It Means for UK Drivers
Apple has officially launched CarPlay Ultra, the next-generation evolution of its in-car interface—and it could radically change how we interact with vehicles here in the UK. Initially available in the US and Canada, the new system makes its debut in selected Aston Martin models, but a UK rollout is firmly on the horizon. In this […]
The Best Radio App’s for Apple CarPlay
Listen to the Radio via Apple CarPlay In this digital age, more and more of us are streaming our favourite radio stations via an app and with built-in Apple CarPlay, it is also possible to do this in your car. Whilst DAB Radio is a huge improvement soundwise over the traditional FM stations when you […]
Apple shares next-generation Car-Play at WWDC 2024
We’re huge fans of Apple CarPlay in the office and we also know that many of our customers also love the extension to their Apple iPhone, with many using sat nav features from Apple Maps and Google Maps over the in-built systems. This week in San Jose, Apple is holding their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) […]
Is this the best Wireless Apple CarPlay adapter?
Whilst Wireless Apple CarPlay is becoming the norm in many of the latest vehicles rolling off the production line, it’s not standard as yet and there are quite a few models on the road where you need to plug your Apple iPhone into your infotainment for Apple CarPlay to work… But have you considered a […]
Is Waze worth using? New important feature added to Apple CarPlay version.
We’ve already discussed the best navigation apps for Apple CarPlay and at the time Waze was mentioned, yet we did prefer using Apple Maps and Google Maps. Waze has recently been under pressure to sort out bugs and listen to user feedback, after all they are a community supported navigational app, so it should be […]
How to download maps in Apple Maps (iOS 17)
In iOS 17, Apple introduced a number of enhancements to Apple CarPlay, we feel the most important one is the ability to download maps in the Apple Maps app to use offline. In todays article we’re going to show you how to download maps to your device and a few pointers. Overview Whilst we all […]
New features for Apple CarPlay in iOS 17
On the 18th September 2023, Apple released the latest update to their iPhone operating service, this time we saw the introduction of iOS 17. Within the software release came a handful of features added for those that use Apple CarPlay, today we take a look at what has been added and/or changed. EV Charging Stations […]
Best Sat Nav Apps for Apple CarPlay
We love Apple CarPlay in the office, we use it more than the built-in satellite navigation systems with the benefit that the user interface would be the same from vehicle-to-vehicle. There are a number of Sat Nav apps available from Apple’s App Store, but which is the best? In this article, we discuss our top […]