iPhone Software Has The Coolest New Feature
iPhone Software Has The Coolest New Feature
Every new update of iPhone and iPad software – and there have been a bunch of them recently – brings fixes and bug repairs. But many of them also significantly increase the device’s capabilities, whether that’s adding compatibility with new items like the AirPods Pro or new features in the iPhone 11 camera, for instance.
The next software will add a new feature to Apple‘s auto capabilities, alongside CarPlay. FUTURE VIA GETTY IMAGES
The next iOS update, unless there’s a pesky bug that needs urgently squishing in the meantime, will be iOS 13.4. It’s already in developer beta phase and will land in public beta next. When it does, you can be sure that fellow Forbes contributor Anthony Karcz will go through every new detail.
But there are one or two updates that are potentially going to be so cool that it’s worth flagging them up now. The first one is the most exciting of all, first reported by 9to5Mac.
If you have an Apple Watch, this new feature works on your wearable, too.
Drive your car with your iPhone
No, really.
The dev beta has a reference to an API called CarKey, which means that if your car is NFC-compatible, that is, it works with an NFC car key, you’ll be able to put that NFC key into the iPhone’s Wallet app.
Then, you can use the iPhone, or your Apple Watch, as the car key. Hold your Apple device next to the car’s NFC reader, authenticate it with Face ID in the case of the iPhone or double-press the side button on the Watch, and the car will unlock.
You can also lock the car this way, and even turn the engine on so you can drive the car.
