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Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: more continuity, less disruption

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CarPlay Ultra is now available on any iPhone 12 or newer that’s running iOS 18.5 or later.

It's designed to deliver greater integration with the vehicle itself, offering the ability to have CarPlay on multiple displays within the vehicle.

Aston Martin's DBX707 is powered by a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 that's supplied by Mercedes-AMG and tuned by Aston Martin .

CarPlay Ultra communicates with the vehicle wirelessly regardless of whether or not the phone is plugged into a data port.

The gauge cluster theme options as well as the choices for the information displayed in the center of the gauge cluster can be scrolled through using the small touchpad on the steering wheel.

It’s hard to say whether CarPlay ultra will eventually become as indispensable as standard CarPlay is now.

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