Anyone who has ever had to sit in the car waiting for something or someone knows that boredom hits quickly. Now, it seems that the Apple aims to bring a solution to this problem.
For those who have one iPhone and a multimedia system with support for CarPlay in the car, you will soon be able to enjoy video playback inside the vehicle, a new feature that will probably arrive with the next minor version of iOS.
The arrival of this feature had already been mentioned previously, when the Apple announced iOS 26 in June 2025. At the time, big tech told developers that the new iOS 26 operating system iPhone would support video playback.
This feature wasn’t in the first version or the ones that followed, but it’s now available to developers in the iOS 26.4 beta. On his YouTube channel, the developer Thomas Dye demonstrated how video playback works in a video simulator. CarPlay.
Dye showed that a version of the application Apple TV now appears on the home screen CarPlay and it works very similar to iPhones, iPads and TVs. You can view your list, search for TV and movies, and watch your selections.
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Application developers will also be able to enable a way to AirPlay from the cell phone to the car that will support video sources for applications that do not have an implementation of CarPlay. When Dye played a video from such an app, the interface shows a prompt to “Show Video on iPhone”.
Before this feature reached CarPlayssome things must happen. First, your car’s manufacturer will likely have to enable the feature by setting a switch in its software that talks to the CarPlaywhich would require an “over-the-air” update or something similar.
And secondly, the CarPlay You must implement a tool that blocks access to the resource unless the vehicle is parked, something that is absolutely imperative to guarantee safety on the roads.
It is worth remembering that there is no guarantee that a feature present in an iOS beta will be included in the next version of the software. Sometimes they are shared with developers just to allow more development and testing time.
Still, Dye hinted that the feature doesn’t seem to be particularly difficult to implement, so we may see this new feature when the next iOS update is released, which could still be a few weeks (or months) away.
Photo and video: Apple / YouTube @Thomas_Dye. This content was created with the help of AI and reviewed by the editorial team.
