{"id":164472,"date":"2023-05-24T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/mercedes-benz-preparing-to-launch-digital-car-key-support-for-iphone-and-apple-watch-in-latest-e-class-sedan"},"modified":"2023-05-24T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T16:23:24","slug":"mercedes-benz-preparing-to-launch-digital-car-key-support-for-iphone-and-apple-watch-in-latest-e-class-sedan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/mercedes-benz-preparing-to-launch-digital-car-key-support-for-iphone-and-apple-watch-in-latest-e-class-sedan","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz Preparing to Launch Digital Car Key Support for iPhone and Apple Watch in Latest E-Class Sedan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mercedes-benz-preparing-to-launch-digital-car-key-support-for-iphone-and-apple-watch-in-latest-e-class-sedan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s digital car key feature for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/iphone\/\">iPhone<\/a> and Apple Watch is expanding to Mercedes-Benz, with changes to Apple\u2019s back-end configuration files for the feature having been updated today with references to the automaker, as noticed by Nicol\u00e1s \u00c1lvarez (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronp613\/status\/1661095345864974354\">via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronp613\">@aaronp613<\/a><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Only a handful of brands including BMW, BYD, Genesis, Hyundai, and Kia have so far introduced support for the feature on select models, which allows you to add a digital car key to the Wallet app on your \u200ciPhone\u200c and Apple Watch and then lock, unlock, and start your car without needing a physical key. Just a month ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/04\/24\/carplay-over-800-vehicle-models\/\">Lotus appeared in Apple\u2019s configuration files<\/a> as another upcoming brand that will support the feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s digital car key feature for iPhone and Apple Watch is expanding to Mercedes-Benz, with changes to Apple\u2019s back-end configuration files for the feature having been updated today with references to the automaker, as noticed by Nicol\u00e1s \u00c1lvarez (via @aaronp613). Only a handful of brands including BMW, BYD, Genesis, Hyundai, and Kia have so far [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164472","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\/164472","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}