{"id":134146,"date":"2022-01-17T03:23:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/apples-digital-car-keys-may-work-with-hyundai-and-genesis-models-this-summer"},"modified":"2022-01-17T03:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:23:05","slug":"apples-digital-car-keys-may-work-with-hyundai-and-genesis-models-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/apples-digital-car-keys-may-work-with-hyundai-and-genesis-models-this-summer","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s digital car keys may work with Hyundai and Genesis models this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple\u2019s digital car key feature<\/a> might soon be useful for unlocking more than a handful of BMW models. In his latest newsletter<\/a>, Bloomberg<\/em>\u2019s Mark Gurman claimed Hyundai and its upscale Genesis badge will support Apple CarKey \u201cby the summer.\u201d It\u2019s not certain which models would provide the option, but it\u2019s notable that some trim levels of the Ioniq 5<\/a> and other Hyundai cars include NFC for a (currently proprietary) digital key.<\/p>\n

While remote lock controls have been available through smartphones for a while, CarKey (and its Android equivalent<\/a>) treats the phone more like a physical key. You just have to bring your phone or Apple Watch<\/a> to the door handle to unlock it, and you can even place your phone in a given area to start the car. People with ultra-wideband iPhones (such as the iPhone 11 and newer) can even leave their phone in their pocket when opening and starting the vehicle.<\/p>\n

If the leak is accurate, Apple\u2019s move could significantly expand the audience for digital car keys \u2014 you wouldn\u2019t need to shop from one high-end marque to even consider it. A deal would also suggest the tussle over a possible EV collaboration<\/a> wasn\u2019t enough to deter Apple and Hyundai from exploring a CarKey team-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple\u2019s digital car key feature might soon be useful for unlocking more than a handful of BMW models. In his latest newsletter, Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman claimed Hyundai and its upscale Genesis badge will support Apple CarKey \u201cby the summer.\u201d It\u2019s not certain which models would provide the option, but it\u2019s notable that some trim levels [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}