The iOS 27 public beta is live and brings several CarPlay enhancements worth exploring.

Siri AI has been extended to CarPlay, allowing voice‑only navigation to addresses or locations found in your emails or texts. This hands‑free control is a major upgrade for drivers.

The Now Playing interface now features a persistent mini‑player with playback controls, album art, and an audio scrubber that lets proposers skip to any point in a track or podcast without touching the phone.

Apple added a new wallpaper collection to CarPlay, mirroring the iPhone’s stock themes, and has made stability improvements: better navigation heading, GPS accuracy, and wireless CarPlay reliability.

Developers can now create dedicated video apps for CarPlay, though automaker support is still pending, so video use may arrive later.

Overall, these updates make the current CarPlay experience noticeably smoother and more feature‑rich.