Apple is penetrating the car industry with its software and will also be offering installment payments in the future.
For the first time, information about speed, direction and fuel level can be displayed on the instrument display, the iPhone manufacturer announced on Monday at the start of its WWDC developer conference.
Thanks to deeper integration in the vehicle, the air conditioning or the radio can now also be controlled via the Apple application.
Automakers like Ford, Nissan Motor and Honda planned to use the new CarPlay software on new models.
Exactly what that should look like will be announced at the end of next year.
The US group did not initially give any further details.
Software for cars increasingly important
Tech giants like Apple, Google and Amazon have long been looking for a way to play a bigger role in cars and have access to the myriad of data in connected vehicles.
So far, however, the car manufacturers have been reluctant and like to rely on their own developments.
Apple also announced that it would enter the installment payment business in the United States.
The group from Cupertino is primarily competing with PayPal and Klarna.
The offer will apply wherever Apple's payment system is accepted, it said.
Users could split sums of money into up to four separate payments - without interest or fees.
In the Corona crisis, the business with installment payments (buy now, pay later - BNPL) boomed, but in view of rising interest rates and high inflation, reports of repayment problems by individual customers are now increasing.
In addition, Apple introduced a newly designed MacBook Air and an updated MacBook Pro, both equipped with the new in-house chip M2 - the newer and more powerful version of the M1.
At the same time, Apple is introducing the option of being able to edit messages afterwards.
To the annoyance of many users, Twitter has not yet offered this, but wants to change that.