# Daring Fireball: Tesla Is Working on CarPlay Support

<https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/13/tesla-carplay>

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## What Jamie wrote

I've been asked many times by people "Does your CarPlay work in your Tesla?" and I chuckle and say "No, and it never will." To allow CarPlay in a Tesla would break so much of the computing paradigm in a Tesla. What do I mean? Most cars are cars that happen to have not one, but a bunch of computers, that do an okay job of working together to create a driver experience. It is absolutely not unified and works well enough. Tesla's are totally different. They are a single computer that is controlling a unified, continuously connected experience that happens to drive around the road. 

In the first model CarPlay is "just another" computer joining the symphony of computers already in your car. In fact, CarPlay is a different computer that knows stuff the other computers don't even know or if they do they are happy to step back and disconnect from the experience. 

In a Tesla, it is all connected. How would the navigation system in a Tesla relate to something in CarPlay? It cannot. In fact, it would step the experience backwards and make it no longer connected and unified. So, if this does happen, I'll be super curious to see how it is done. Tesla could provide a CarPlay window — almost like an emulator running on a computer to run another operating system inside it.

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