When I set the Appearance in the CarPlay Simulator to Light, the setting is only respected during daytime. After sunset, CarPlay switches to and stays in Dark mode, regardless of the Light setting. This makes it difficult to test Light and Dark mode during evening development sessions, since Light mode is unavailable until the next sunrise. Expected behavior: When Appearance is explicitly set to Light, the CarPlay Simulator should stay in Light mode at any time of day, so both appearances can be tested whenever needed. Actual behavior: After sunset, the CarPlay Simulator remains in Dark mode even though Light is selected. This issue has been present for quite a while. A fix would be much appreciated. Thank you!

I'm testing iOS 27 and face this issue that the accessoryImage on the CPListItem is no longer shown properly. It works fine up until iOS 26.5 but on 27 it is way to small. Check attached screen shot for details. Also filed FB23903072, hope this gets fixed before iOS 27 final arrives. 🤞

According to the CarPlay developer guide navigation apps are allowed to use the CPTabBarTemplate. Thing is that navigation apps most likely use a CPMapTemplate as root template already, so how should the CPTabBarTemplate be used then? Setting a new root with a CPTabBarTemplate will probably break ongoing navigation and CPTabBarTemplate can't be pushed.

Hi there, I'm facing an issue when disconnecting CarPlay that the navigation session seems to be in some weird state where it is not properly finished. So when I reconnect CarPlay the "Metadata in instrument cluster or HUD" does not update anymore until I start another navigation session and stop that one. You can see that the instruction to the left on this screen recording is not updating anymore after a reconnect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sncxyJULjQk I have a modified the CostalRoad sample app to add support for the HUD cluster and to auto start a navigation simulation when CarPlay connects. https://github.com/g4rb4g3/CoastalRoads Can anyone tell me what I have to do when CarPlay disconnect so I can start a new navigation session on reconnect that has a working HUD cluster? Fun fact is that Apple Maps handles this quite nice (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJEIyGcwdo), it somehow manages to finish the navigation session and brings up the HUD cluster just fine on reconnect. I wonder how I can achieve the same, anyone having an idea on that?