{"id":632308,"date":"2026-05-09T05:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632308\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:26:20","slug":"carplay-now-works-with-these-three-top-ai-chatbot-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632308\/","title":{"rendered":"CarPlay now works with these three top AI chatbot apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/grok-carplay.webp.jpeg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CarPlay continues to give drivers more choice than ever when it comes to which services to use on the road. For example, CarPlay now works with three top AI chatbot apps. This extends the iPhone experience into the car without requiring special integration between automakers and services.<\/p>\n<p>These AI chatbot apps work with Apple CarPlay<\/p>\n<p>As of iOS 26.4, Apple supports a new class of CarPlay app: voice-based conversational apps.<\/p>\n<p>AI chatbot apps fall into this category, and we\u2019ve already seen three big names release CarPlay support.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT app was <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/31\/chatgpt-app-launches-for-carplay-on-ios-26-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first<\/a> to arrive on CarPlay. Perplexity came in close <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/04\/17\/apples-carplay-feature-now-supports-multiple-ai-chatbot-apps-from-iphone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second<\/a> with its own voice mode experience.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, xAI-turned-SpaceXAI <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/05\/02\/xai-is-bringing-grok-voice-mode-to-apple-carplay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signaled<\/a> Grok for CarPlay with a placeholder app. The most recent version of the Grok iPhone app now includes CarPlay support. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Grok-CarPlay-3-Large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1051419\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Grok Voice Mode in CarPlay works similar to the other AI chatbot apps in the car. The app shows a list of recent conversations, or you can start a new conversation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Grok-CarPlay-2-Large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1051420\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Grok for CarPlay lets you mute the conversation temporarily without fully stopping the session. There\u2019s also the ability to switch voices from the CarPlay app.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Grok-CarPlay-1-Large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1051421\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Grok Voice Mode is available in the latest version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/grok-ai-chat-video\/id6670324846\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grok iPhone app<\/a>. Find more CarPlay apps in every category <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/best-carplay-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768338849_561_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768338849_421_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4rDvqMk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1044137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/750x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CarPlay continues to give drivers more choice than ever when it comes to which services to use on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-632308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}