iPhone may soon let you control AC, adjust seats in your car using CarPlay

CarPlay is likely to get major updates soon even though Apple's own self-driving car project continues to live.

Apple’s own self-driving car may still be years away, but it is not completely away from the existing cars. Apple’s CarPlay allows you to use your iPhone as a tether for map navigation, calls and other sorts of communications, and even entertainment on your car’s infotainment screen. And now Apple may be planning to give more abilities to CarPlay to make it more useful. CarPlay may soon let you control air conditioning, adjust seats, configure the sound settings on your car, among other things, and that may be good news for iPhone users with a car.

As reported by Bloomberg, Apple may be working on a host of updates for CarPlay to make it better in terms of interacting with the host vehicle. The current set of features is good, but there are still a lot of things that your iPhone cannot do. A better CarPlay, however, will take care of those things. It may let you set the cooling temperature of your car’s AC, adjust the seats without having to do that manually, and let you know the temperature and humidity of the car. It may even let you control the speedometer.