Apple Carplay Land Rover Discovery Sport

Jaguar land rover announced today that its finally time to bring apple carplay and android auto to its new vehicles.
Apple carplay land rover discovery sport. In the case of land rovers incontrol thats exactly what were looking at. I also have a 2017 mazda cx 5 and there is talk of mazda doing an update to their system that would include apple carplay. On the range rover it is the other way around the sport model is the seven seater instead. All of your phones most essential functions are transferred directly to your land rover touchscreen with apple carplay or android auto integration.
I tried to have the software updated when i serviced the car a couple of weeks ago. Both smartphone mirroring systems will be part of an optional smartphone pack. Published by staff reporter on april 27 2016. The smartphone pack is the most advanced and responsible way to integrate your phone with your land rover driving experience.
Once connected the apps on the vehicles touch screen have the same look and feel as they do on your smartphone. I am new to the forum and i am trying to find out whether my17 models can be upgraded to apple carplay. I have an hse with the 10 screen incontrol touch plus. Apple has already started to make waves in the auto space with carplay google has the open automotive alliance but were always interested in in car systems which work with more than one mobile platform.
Land rover incontrol apps enables you to use vehicle optimised smartphone apps on the vehicles touch screen by connecting your smartphone with a usb cable to the dedicated incontrol apps usb port. Add up to 4 cameras camera images turn on automatically or can be turned on manually if required. Anyway the two row land rover discovery is getting some sweet tech updates for 2017 which function more as life simplifying tools than cool gizmos. Navtool navtool40 apple carplay is a new generation of video interfaces that adds smartphone mirroring apple carplay and video capabilities to vehicles with a factory color screen or factory installed navigation system.