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Apple CarPlay
Enjoy the functionality of your iPhone from the driver’s seat.
Smarter and easier
Apple CarPlay takes the functions and apps you’re familiar with from your iPhone and makes them conveniently available via the centre display of your Volvo. You can even use the Siri voice control function to take care of your SMS, which means your attention stays focused on the road ahead.
Use standard Apple applications
Via the standard applications that can be recognised from Apple’s operating system, you can write text messages, make a call, listen to music and navigate. To use more applications, such as Spotify or Podcasts, it is required that these are downloaded onto your iPhone.
In order to help drivers stay informed, while at the same time ensuring they stay focused on the road ahead, Volvo Cars has teamed up with Apple to bring a convenient new world of information closer than ever before. CarPlay delivers the groundbreaking features and services familiar to users of the iPhone, iPad and iPod directly into the Volvo XC90 via the large, but beautifully integrated, centre console with an easy-to-use touch screen display.
Volvo Cars has taken Apple’s technological capabilities and added their own unique stamp by linking them to a specially developed interface. This interface allows drivers to use both voice and steering wheel controls to access selected Apple features and services.
Volvo Cars has taken Apple’s technological capabilities and added their own unique stamp by linking them to a specially developed interface. This interface allows drivers to use both voice and steering wheel controls to access selected Apple features and services.
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“Apple's user interface and the design of your Volvo are a perfect match.”
A belief in simplicity
The new user interface promises to not only transform how new Volvo cars are experienced – it will also transform how they look and feel. Two qualities that unite Volvo Cars and Apple are a belief in simplicity and a dedication to functionality. And it’s these qualities that will come to define the interior of all new Volvo cars.
“Apple’s clean and intuitive user interface is a perfect match with Volvo's Scandinavian design approach and our focus on fluid functionality,” says Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO of Volvo Cars.
Apple CarPlay integrates seamlessly with Volvo Cars’ new user interface. Visually, it becomes part of the on-board system, displaying well-known icons for Apple applications. Drivers will immediately recognise their basic iPhone applications, such as phone, messages, music and navigation.
“Apple’s clean and intuitive user interface is a perfect match with Volvo's Scandinavian design approach and our focus on fluid functionality,” says Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO of Volvo Cars.
Apple CarPlay integrates seamlessly with Volvo Cars’ new user interface. Visually, it becomes part of the on-board system, displaying well-known icons for Apple applications. Drivers will immediately recognise their basic iPhone applications, such as phone, messages, music and navigation.
Focus on the road with Siri
Thanks to the voice function Siri, you can focus fully on the road. Not only can Siri read out and write text messages but it can also call contacts from the phone book by you speaking to the function. To use the map application you can either enter the destination on the car’s touch screen or tell Siri the destination.
#HumanMade
Everything we do is designed around people, so every innovation we make is designed to simplify and improve your life – and that has always carried through naturally into Volvo’s ethos of car making. Explore our #HumanMade stories, projects and partnerships further.
