Google has brought the full Gemini Live app to Apple CarPlay, rolling out to every Gemini user on iOS worldwide from 11 November.
“You can talk back and forth with Gemini at your own pace — interrupting to add a detail, changing the subject, or pausing when you need to focus on an exit”
Google, in its announcement · thurrott.com ↗
Until now, CarPlay drivers could reach Gemini only through Google Maps. The new version needs the latest iPhone app, microphone access and one earlier Gemini Live session on the phone. Then tap the Gemini icon on the car screen.
Drivers can interrupt mid-answer, and chats sync with the phone. A waveform screen shows when Gemini listens, thinks or answers. It can also check email and appointments.
About Gemini
Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models from Google DeepMind, the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2, and it powers Google's chatbot of the same name.
Google first unveiled it at the I/O keynote on 10 May 2023. It was announced in beta on 6 December 2023 and officially rolled out on 8 February 2024. Its reach into cars is more recent: on 20 November 2025 Google began a global rollout of Gemini on Android Auto, where it replaced Google Assistant for users who had upgraded on their phone.
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Meta AI and Grok already ran on CarPlay, leaving Gemini the last major holdout.
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