Best Cars with Apple CarPlay for 2025
These are the best cars, SUVs, and trucks with Apple CarPlay based on iSeeCars' analysis of each vehicle's reliability, resale value and safety.
Best Cars with Apple CarPlay by Vehicle Type
Apple CarPlay has become one of the most popular vehicle features in modern cars. Leveraging Apple’s trademark talent for creating an intuitive user interface, CarPlay allows iPhone owners to stream their phone’s content and controls onto the main touchscreen in modern cars. CarPlay’s interface uses the same app icons seen on the iPhone, and arranges them in a similar format. This makes it easy for drivers or passengers to find and open programs like Apple music, Google maps, Spotify, Waze, and hundreds of other popular apps.
In the early years of Apple CarPlay a user had to physically plug their phone into the car using a USB cord, but in recent model years many cars, particularly luxury vehicles from premium automakers, offer wireless Apple CarPlay through Bluetooth connectivity, making it even easier and more convenient to use the interface. Most infotainment systems can switch between the vehicle’s standard interface and Apple CarPlay, in case a driver or passenger wants to use a vehicle feature that isn’t part of CarPlay.
The best cars with Apple CarPlay incorporate vehicle controls beyond the touchscreen. These include steering wheel controls with a dedicated button to engage siri’s voice interface, which enhances the driving experience by keeping the driver’s eyes on the road. Buyers without an iPhone have the option of using Android Auto, a similar control interface that allows owners of Android-based phones to stream their phone’s content and controls onto a vehicle’s touchscreen.
Apple CarPlay was limited to premium luxury cars from brands like Acura, Audi, BMW, Lexus, Lincoln, and Mercedes-Benz when it was introduced several years ago. Today, the interface is offered on the majority of new cars, even on base trim levels with no optional upgrades. Examples include every model from Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota, and Volkswagen.
iSeeCars has listed all the vehicles that offer Apple CarPlay below. Models are organized by vehicle type and size, and ranked according to their iSeeCars quality score, which takes reliability, resale value, and safety into consideration. Information on new and used pricing, along with fuel economy specs, are included for each vehicle. Use the lists below to ensure a model you are considering offers Apple CarPlay.
Best Cars with Apple CarPlay
Best SUVs with Apple CarPlay
Best Trucks with Apple CarPlay
Best Hybrids with Apple CarPlay
Best Electrics with Apple CarPlay
How We Rank These Cars
The Best Cars with Apple CarPlay list ranks vehicles by their iSeeCars Score, which is based on our proprietary assessment of a vehicle’s reliability, resale value and safety (based on ratings from IIHS and NHTSA). The Apple CarPlay feature is available either standard or optional on these cars.
The iSeeCars Score is an analysis of three factors: reliability, resale value and safety. It is calculated based on the latest research and analysis by our data science team. The data analysis comes from over 12 million new and used vehicles in our Longest-Lasting Cars and 5-Year Depreciation Studies, combined with NHTSA and IIHS Safety Ratings.
Vehicles are scored in three categories:
Reliability
The reliability score represents an analysis of iSeeCars' proprietary research on the longest-lasting vehicles.
Value Retention
The value retention score is based on our data science team's statistical analysis and prediction of 5-year depreciation from MSRP to determine which cars hold their value best, using US Bureau of Labor Statistics data to adjust for inflation.
Safety
The safety score is calculated based on the last five years of crash test ratings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and incorporates the latest Top Safety Pick information from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
