My Porsche App Update for Taycan Finally Adds Climate Controls & More through Apple Carplay! Happy Thanksgiving!

[allroadusa]

The MyPorsche app on your iPhone needs to be upgraded to version 9.1 but current version in Europe is 9.04. So you just have to wait.

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[Jasper4S]

Im pretty happy with the new functionality. But really, it is enabled by a iOS update rather than a PCM update? So it was available the whole time for us, but they decided not to enable Taycans yet?

 

[Perry]

I hope they update it soon in Europe too, because this looks great! The Homekit integration is a funny addition, seeing how that isn't even available in standard Carplay for some insane reason.

Now this makes me wonder, why on earth does the Porsche Carplay app have a gazillion times better UI than the built in PCM, which looks like it was designed by SAP in the 90's?

 

[carboard123]

Im pretty happy with the new functionality. But really, it is enabled by a iOS update rather than a PCM update? So it was available the whole time for us, but they decided not to enable Taycans yet?

Anyone figure out how to get Apple Music working on this:

 

[dugbug]

Strange for me enabling CarPlay disables the steering wheel phone button and the hud can no longer answer calls.

while I appreciate the tiles I wish Porsche copied bmw wrt iPhone integration

 

[yankeedoodle]

The My Porsche widget got removed for me when I updated the iOS app

 

[Oyinko]

Anyone figure out how to get Apple Music working on this:

Go to the My Porsche App function tile in your iOS app and open the « Essential » tab. You will get an iOS prompt to grant access to your Apple Music library.

 

[JWreck]

Is that really better than the dedicated climate control screen below the center screen??

 

[mc9er]

Is that really better than the dedicated climate control screen below the center screen??

Tried it … answer = no

 

[pedroleumjelly]

Im pretty happy with the new functionality. But really, it is enabled by a iOS update rather than a PCM update? So it was available the whole time for us, but they decided not to enable Taycans yet?

Correct. It’s all phone-side. German software engineering teams are pretty slow :/

 

[Jasper4S]

Correct. It’s all phone-side. German software engineering teams are pretty slow :/

Not slow, it was there all the time. Cayenne already got the functionality. Probably marketing? make the Cayenne feel newer for the first couple of months?

 

[pedroleumjelly]

Not slow, it was there all the time. Cayenne already got the functionality. Probably marketing? make the Cayenne feel newer for the first couple of months?

They could’ve done this for the taycan in 2020. But yeah!

 

[MarkSCville]

So Update works ok.. Only quirk/issue I see is now Spotify (in apple carplay)works but does not have the image of what's playing now or allow you to play/pause it. Hope they fix that on next update.

 

[tigerbalm]

While I do not think these features are ground breaking – it is a little bit frustrating that us European users are lagging behind. Including introducing the new EV Routing in Apple Maps. I can understand a phased rollout – but we're waiting months now for some of these features.

 

[Genau]

Is that really better than the dedicated climate control screen below the center screen??

Benefits of having climate controls available via CarPlay include:

• They can be scripted,
• They can be voice controlled via Siri (although already voice controlled via Hey Porsche).

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