Silence spoken directions, or set how loud they are, on your iPhone and in CarPlay. • NEW: Silent mode. Turn Voice guidance off in Settings on your iPhone, or in CarPlay from the Settings button on the map. Nothing is spoken, not even alerts; every direction, alert and banner stays on screen, and your music is no longer turned down for a voice that stays quiet. • NEW: Voice volume. Make directions louder or quieter compared with your phone or car volume: drag the slider on your iPhone, or tap −10 % and +10 % in CarPlay. You hear a sample at each step, so you can set it by ear against your music. • A change made in CarPlay shows on your iPhone at once, and the other way round.

Charging stops that fit your car's plug, and a steadier CarPlay drive. • Plugs that fit: a charger your car can't plug into is no longer planned as a stop, so a CCS car isn't sent to a Tesla-only Supercharger or a CHAdeMO-only post. Pick your plug in Settings, or leave it on Automatic. • A stop's details now say how many plugs of another type it has, so you can see why they aren't counted. • Quick Charge finds nearby chargers more reliably, also after you reopen a saved trip. • CarPlay: the turn card stays put instead of sliding in again every few seconds, and long instructions are no longer cut off. • No more Apple Account sign-in prompt when you open the app or connect CarPlay. • Apple Watch, the Live Activity and widgets show the right battery at your destination while CarPlay guides you, and a cancelled route leaves the Lock Screen at once. • Battery percentages are rounded the same way on every screen. • A shorter welcome tour that fits every iPhone screen. • The Apple Maps button now shows the app's name in your language.

Your trip on your Lock Screen, your Home Screen and your wrist. • Live Activity and Dynamic Island: while you drive, your arrival time, the next charging stop and your battery stay on the Lock Screen. • Widgets: your current route, your next stop and the nearest charger, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. • Apple Watch: your trip, your next stop and the nearest charger at a glance. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Find a charger near me", "Next charging stop", "Trip status" and "Plan my trip home". • Charging cost: an estimate of what your charging stops will cost, or set your own price per kWh in Settings. • Clearer stop names: a food truck's timetable is no longer shown as the name of a charging stop.

Safer charging, clearer guidance. • Never without a charger. Low on battery, the app now sends you to the nearest charger by road and plans with your real charge, however low. A change that would leave no charger in reach is refused and your trip stays as it was. • Guidance like Apple Maps. Directions in CarPlay now look like Apple Maps: junction pictograms, road number badges, the roundabout exit to take and a blue route line. • The road your stops were planned on. Guidance now drives the same road the charging stops were planned on, so the battery at each charger matches the plan. • Chargers on your side of the road. A charger on the opposite side of the motorway is no longer chosen when reaching it means a long loop. • Eat now, then carry on. A restaurant picked during a trip becomes a stop on the way and your destination is kept. Only restaurants on your way are suggested, unless turning back is really short. • The same numbers everywhere. Arrival times, battery levels and free chargers now match between the trip plan and the map.

Three fixes straight from the road. • The charging-station pin stays on the map. As you approach a planned stop, its pin remains visible right up to the chargers — shown above your car, never hidden by it. • No last-minute re-plan. Close to a planned stop, the app no longer recalculates the trip or jumps ahead to the following stop. Guidance stays on the stop you are arriving at until the car has actually stopped there. • The arrival notification opens. Tapping the notification you receive on reaching a stop now always opens the map with the walking route to the restaurant — even if the trip was recalculated in the meantime or the app had been closed.

What a week of real driving taught us — and what changed because of it. • Chargers that are really there. A service area used to borrow any charger within 2 km, so a stop could promise plugs that sat across the motorway in the next town. A charger now has to be on the stop's own grounds. • Food you can actually walk to. A restaurant counts for a stop only when there is a footpath of 600 m or less from the chargers. No more restaurants a kilometre away along a road with no sidewalk. • Pull in here. When your planned stop is the next thing on the road, the CarPlay card names it with the distance counting down, and the voice says so at 500, 200 and 50 metres. • Guidance waits for you. Directions no longer jump to the next leg while you are still looking for the chargers: they move on once the car has actually stopped there. Threading a service road is not "off-route", and a reroute keeps the stop you were arriving at. • You're there — here is the walk. When the car reaches a planned stop, your iPhone shows a notification; tap it and the map opens with the walking route from the chargers to the restaurant. • Your battery, your number. The app no longer assumes you charged just because you passed a stop's kilometre mark. The charge you enter is the truth from that moment on; leaving a stop you did charge at, it asks you to confirm the level. A battery edit while driving re-plans from where you are, not from the start. • Backup chargers, always. The crowded-stop button offers chargers you can reach from where you are even when no planned stop lies ahead. • A clearer map. The trip card takes half the width so the route stays visible, the origin/destination card can be hidden, and planning shows its progress from the first tap.

CarPlay was rebuilt around the two questions you actually ask at speed: where am I stopping, and will there be a charger free when I get there. • How many chargers are FREE, in the stop's title. A stop no longer just says "41 chargers" — it says how many of those 41 are free right now, wherever the operator publishes it. In the trip plan and in the backup-stop list, before you commit to the exit. • This stop is crowded. One tap on the charger-with-a-slash button, confirm your charge, and you get the stops you can still reach with it — sorted, with their live free counts, ready to re-plan around the one that's full. • Take me home. One button in the car, home set once in Settings. No searching, no phone. • Your trip statistics in the car: total time, driving, charging, breaks, distance and average speed — from Settings or the bottom of the trip plan. • The whole route, all the way. The map draws every leg to the destination with every stop pinned, not just the leg to the next charger — and it keeps drawing it when the signal drops mid-trip. • Walk from where you are. Open a stop's map and you see yourself on it; stand at the chargers and it walks you to the restaurant door. • The United States. Charger and place data now understands American travel centres and truck stops, served from a US datacentre so planning is as quick in Texas as in France. • The subscription check runs behind the app, not in front of it. A known subscriber never waits on a checking screen again. Fixed • A blank CarPlay screen if the app restarted while the car was connected. • "Turn on Location" when Location was already on and the phone simply had no fix yet — it now says it's waiting for GPS, and offers to retry. • A trip your car can drive on one charge was refused with a network error. • The planning screen was centred on the full display, so its title slid under the car's own sidebar. • 86 pieces of text that stayed English inside every other language.

Charging stops you can actually reach — and reach with charge to spare. • Never arrive on empty. If the live projection says you'd reach your next charging stop below your reserve, the app now says so out loud and immediately looks for a charger you CAN reach, re-planning from where you are and from the charge you actually have. • Distances measured on the road you're driving. Distance to the next stop, distance to the destination, arrival time and the charge you'll arrive with are now all measured along the route under your wheels — not the route you were originally given. Reroutes and detours no longer skew them. • Two separate battery minimums. Set the charge you want to arrive at a charging stop with, and separately the charge you want left at your destination — now settable all the way to 80%, so you can arrive with range in hand for local driving. • Stops named like the road sign. A stop now carries the name written on the exit sign rather than the charging network's branding, so what the app tells you matches what's on the gantry at speed. • Look up any restaurant. Every restaurant listed at a stop opens a web search in one tap — hours, photos, menu — before you commit to the walk. • Navigate with what you prefer. Hand any stop or your destination to Waze, Google Maps, Apple Maps or A Better Routeplanner, and open the stop area full screen to see exactly where the chargers and food are. • Lane guidance on the maneuver card in CarPlay, where the road data provides it. • Fixed: stations that reported chargers they don't have could out-rank better ones, putting a 4-stall stop ahead of a 6-stall station. • Fixed: at very low charge the planner now reaches for the last-resort stop instead of refusing one because it wouldn't meet a comfort setting.

Trip statistics, safer charging stops, and your whole route on the CarPlay map: • NEW — Trip statistics: driving time, charging time, breaks and total trip time at a glance, plus energy used, energy recharged, average speed and battery on arrival. On your iPhone, and one tap from the CarPlay map. • Charging stops now show the name written on the motorway exit sign, so what you read on screen matches what you see on the road. • Rest areas paired on opposite sides of a motorway are never mixed up again — you are guided to the one on your side of the road. • If your next stop reports no free chargers, the app now warns you out loud and offers backup stops you can still reach, keeping your destination. • The CarPlay map now draws your whole route, through every charging stop to your destination — not just the leg to the next charger. • Extra stops you add on your phone now appear in the CarPlay trip plan and on the map. • As you approach a charging stop, the guidance card shows the stop itself instead of a turn further ahead. • Fixed: CarPlay could stay stuck on "checking subscription" for a whole drive. Thanks for driving with Drive Charge Eat!

A big update to CarPlay navigation, trip accuracy, and food preferences: • CarPlay now drives like Waze: the car stays pinned to the road through every curve, the map never flips or stutters, and navigation stays smooth even with the phone screen off. • The ETA on the map always matches your Trip-plan arrival time exactly. • Go off-route and the app quietly re-routes you; stay off-route and it automatically re-plans your whole trip — route and charging stops — with no need to pull over. • Your favourite restaurant chains now come first at charging stops, with a new Settings toggle to choose how strongly (Settings > Food Chains). • Extra stops you add on your phone now show clearly in the CarPlay trip plan and on the map, and are cleared automatically when you pick a new destination. • More accurate range on mountain routes, thanks to improved elevation data. • Distance units (km/mi) are now consistent everywhere in the app. • Clear safety disclaimer and data-source attributions, in every supported language. Thanks for driving with Drive Charge Eat!

A big update focused on what matters on an EV road trip — charging and food: • Every charging stop has food — and your FAVOURITE chains now come first. Places that are closed right now are hidden, so you only see what's open. • Eat Now: one tap shows your favourite open restaurants within 30 minutes, each with how many ≥100 kW fast chargers are right there — eat and charge in one stop. • More accurate plans: routing starts from your true GPS position and the battery level you confirm before each trip. Your “minimum battery at arrival” setting now controls the safety reserve kept at every stop. • Stops stay on your route — no more far-off detours — and show food and charger details at a glance. • Smoother CarPlay navigation: the car rides low like Waze, turns along the road through curves, and the map glides without stutter. Maneuver signs show the road and direction. • Faster, more reliable trip planning. Thanks for driving with Drive Charge Eat!