Well, Apple launched iOS 26.4 last week, and while the update delivered a number of new features, none of them were AI chatbot integrations with CarPlay. The company even dropped the first beta for iOS 26.5 without including a mention of the upcoming feature. I'll admit, the idea of using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini with CarPlay totally fell off my radar, instead replaced by thoughts of when Apple's big AI Siri upgrade would actually launch. But OpenAI didn't forget about it.
I happen to have a car with CarPlay, so I had to give the feature a try. My iPhone is already running iOS 26.4, so that wasn't an issue, but I did need to update the ChatGPT app to its latest version. Before I did, I couldn't see the app in CarPlay. Following an update, ChatGPT appeared on the last app page in my CarPlay window.
Having launched the app, you can simply talk to ChatGPT, and it can respond. It really is a driving-friendly version of familiar voice mode.
CarPlay doesn't stop ChatGPT from hallucinating
"Late 2023?" I asked. "Yeah, exactly!" responded ChatGPT. "So it’s still pretty recent, but it’s been expanding a lot since then, especially with updates from OpenAI and Apple. So, yeah, you’re kind of right at the beginning of that wave!" I asked if it knew what year it was right now. ChatGPT conceded that it was 2026, which meant it had been "a few years since that initial rollout," and thanked me for pointing that out.
This is not a new problem. All generative AI hallucinates, not just ChatGPT, and it's something to expect when using the technology. But I can't help but think that CarPlay only makes the problem worse: You can't easily fact-check the AI yourself when you're out on the road; all you can do is ask it to fact-check itself. Sure, it might correct the mistake, like it did when I challenged it, but it may just hallucinate the correction, too. If you rely on this tool to answer your questions while on the road, you might just get fed some misinformation that you file away as truth.
Disclosure: Lifehacker’s parent company, Ziff Davis, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.
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