CarPlay widgets: Now Playing and Weather

Two new widgets are now available, allowing you to see your currently playing music and album art and the local weather.

It's also now easier to set up CarPlay without having to enable trip logging or a subscription.

CarPlay media controls

You can now choose to swap the pan button with a next/previous button for easier media playback control right from within Sidecar.

Expanded vehicle support

Thank you to the beta testers that enabled Sidecar’s expansion of vehicle support to include more BMW, Lexus, and Toyota models! More cars should be able to pull more data automatically now.

More vehicles

New vehicle symbols are now available: Kia EV9 and BMW i3.

OBD parameter improvements

Several vehicles’ parameters were tuned since the last release, including the Taycan, Toyota Tacoma, and BMW X3.

The OBD scanners page has also been reorganized so that it's easier to see your scanners.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where the camera would sometimes fly off to the side and then snap back in CarPlay. This mostly affected drivers closer to the north pole.
• CarPlay widgets now fit snugly into the corner above the CarPlay buttons.
• Various onboarding improvements.
• Landscape onboarding has been improved.
• Vehicle names now use a shortened year format.
• Fixed a broken link to the OBDb.
• CarPlay widgets now appear automatically if you only have one vehicle in your garage.
• Trip logger now only starts its wake up sequence if trip logging is enabled (this addresses a Motion and Activity prompt that would otherwise appear unnecessarily). Trip logging was not turning on as a result of this bug, but the permission prompt was appearing which was confusing.
• You can now request location access from CarPlay as part of the first-run experience. Requires your phone to be unlocked with Sidecar open.
• The entire "Add widget" row can now be tapped in the CarPlay widget editor.
• Various OBD scanner connection stability improvements.