CarPlay notifications unsupported for Driving Task apps in iOS 18.6

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paulmp3
paulmp3 OP
Created Aug ’25
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I have my app configured as a Driving Task app with the entitlement and provisioning profile correctly set up. I am also requesting the ".carPlay" notification authorization option and setting up the carplay notification category with the ".allowInCarPlay" category, both without error.

When testing with the iPhone and carplay simulators the user notifications I send are appearing on the phone but not in carplay.

When I check the notification settings with UNUserNotificationCenter.current().getNotificationSettings() I see that carplay is shown to be not supported ("carPlaySetting: NotSupported").

The CarPlay Developer Guide 2025-06-09 (which is the version currently referenced in the Apple docs) states that "Starting in iOS 18.4, notifications are also supported in CarPlay driving task apps".

Has this discrepancy been addressed anywhere, or is this an open issue?

My software versions: MacOS: Sequoia 15.6 XCode: 16.4 iPhone Simulator: iPhone 16 with iOS 18.6

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Apple Staff, Engineer
Engineer OP
Apple
4w

Notifications on CarPlay requires the app icon present on the CarPlay Home Screen.

If that's not the case, please try that.

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Apple Staff, Frameworks Engineer
Frameworks Engineer OP
Apple
4w

Hi, Driving Task apps are expected to be able to show notifications on the car screen as of iOS 18.4. Please file a feedback report with diagnostics logs so we can investigate. Thanks!

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