OS 26 brings CarPlay’s biggest update in years, here are all the new features coming to your car after you upgrade.

The Smart Display Zoom option fits more onto your homescreen by shrinking icons. Even better, it fits more content into widgets and apps, for instance, showing more detailed directions in Apple ...

iOS 26 adds a new Smart Display Zoom setting to CarPlay. When the setting is enabled, CarPlay will be automatically resized to better fit the shape and size of your vehicle's dashboard screen, if ...

iOS 26 adds a new Smart Display Zoom setting to CarPlay. When the setting is enabled, CarPlay will be automatically resized to better fit the shape and size of your vehicle's dashboard screen, if ...

As seen in our gallery here, Smart Display Zoom can enable you to fit significantly more content on screen at once. Of course, then smaller things get, the trickier they might be to tap while driving.

Smart display zoom, which optimizes screen scaling for easier interaction and better visibility.

That's why iOS 26 will include a new feature called "Smart Display Zoom" that will automatically adjust the size of certain screen elements, such as the icons, to fit your screen.