These AI chatbot app widgets work with CarPlay
Want to use your favorite AI chatbot app in the car? iOS 26.4 and later supports voice-based conversational apps, and we’ve already seen several popular iPhone apps update for CarPlay.
While not every AI chatbot has a dedicated CarPlay app just yet, widget support can get you pretty close for some of the holdouts.
AI chatbot apps in CarPlay
So far, we’ve seen three AI chatbots add CarPlay support to their iPhone apps:
Each app offers a similar layout for starting new voice mode conversations or selecting from a list of recent conversations.
ChatGPT goes a bit further by displaying Projects, or collections of chats based on a topic. Grok is the only app that lets you switch between voices from the CarPlay app.
AI chatbot widgets in CarPlay
Apple added support for CarPlay widgets as part of iOS 26, and several AI chatbot app widgets work with CarPlay.
Both ChatGPT and Grok have CarPlay widgets that launch the newly introduced CarPlay apps.
Perplexity’s iPhone app widget can be added to CarPlay, but it’s not optimized for the in-car experience and doesn’t do anything.
Anthropic’s Claude features voice mode on the iPhone, but the AI chatbot app is notably absent from CarPlay.
Claude has an iPhone widget that can be added to CarPlay, but it doesn’t actually work right now.
Meta’s Messenger widget with an “Ask Meta AI” button can also be added to CarPlay, but it similarly doesn’t work yet.
The good news is that there are two AI chatbot apps that lack CarPlay apps but have working CarPlay widgets: Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.
Both of these apps have CarPlay widgets that support starting voice mode conversations from the CarPlay screen without picking up the iPhone.
Hopefully, we’ll see dedicated CarPlay apps and updated widgets from all of these AI chatbot apps in the future. We might even see a dedicated Siri app for CarPlay in iOS 27 next month.
For now, CarPlay works with ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok apps, plus Gemini and Copilot widgets.
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