Taking calls from the road has been one thing since the dawn of car phones, but tech companies are still finding new and innovative ways to make meetings impossible. when Carplay And Android Auto While traditional phone calls are baked into their functionality and supported by some other calling apps, Google Meet never did. If you have a work call you need to attend to while in the car, you need to go through the potentially cumbersome process of disconnecting your phone from the car and running the call through the phone itself, or, if that’s an option, have someone else take the wheel while you dial.
That’s changing now—at least for those of us with iPhones. Thursday, Google announced That Google Meet is now available on CarPlay. Of course, that integration now means you can take work calls while driving (audio only, of course), but Google Meet’s CarPlay also has some additional functionality. According to Google, you’ll be able to see your upcoming schedule in the app and tap on it to join the meeting. It’s obviously useful when trying to join certain meetings, but, like many CarPlay experiences, I wonder if there’s a little too much going on for an app designed to be used while driving.
This is convenient, but I don’t want to get into an accident because someone was reviewing their lunch schedule.
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However, Google Meet is now available for drivers, although Google is adamant that there are no video capabilities present. When your iPhone is connected to CarPlay, your camera will be disabled during a Google Meet call and you won’t be able to see any of the other caller’s video feed. The company says the feature is available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Personal subscribers and users with a Google Account for personal use.
The most notable omission from this list of users includes those on Android. This is just another weird case of Google rolling out functionality to the iPhone version of its app before it’s actually developed in the OS. You’d expect Android users to get this feature at the same time as iOS, if not earlier, but Google must have a reason. There are probably more Google Meet users on iOS than on Android, but whatever the reason, Android users have to wait a bit longer to call into a working meeting via Android Auto.
What do you think so far?
Google Meet is another big CarPlay announcement this week. OpenAI also announced ChatGPT support for CarPlay on Thursday, Following changes in iOS 26.4 Which opens up support for AI chat apps. When I gave it a test driveChatGPT immediately became obsessed.
