Want to use your favorite AI chatbot app in the car? iOS 26.4 and later support voice-based conversational apps, and we’ve already seen several popular iPhone apps updated for CarPlay.
While not every AI chatbot has a dedicated CarPlay app yet, widget support may come close enough to save some.
AI chatbot apps on CarPlay
So far, we’ve seen three AI chatbots add CarPlay support to iPhone apps:
Each app offers a similar layout for starting new voice chats or selecting from a list of recent chats.
ChatGPT goes a step further by displaying Projects or topic-based chat collections. Grok is the only app that allows you to switch between sounds from 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 an in-car experience and does nothing.
Anthropic’s Claude has a 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 work right now.
A Meta Messenger widget with an “Ask Meta AI” button can also be added to CarPlay, but it doesn’t work the same way yet.
The good news is that there are two AI chatbot apps that aren’t CarPlay apps, but do 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 custom CarPlay apps and updated widgets from all of these AI chatbot apps in the future. We can even see special Siri app For CarPlay in iOS 27 next month.
CarPlay currently works with ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok apps, as well as Gemini and Copilot widgets.
You’ll find the best CarPlay apps in every category here.
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