Apple added a digital car key feature to its Wallet app, allowing users to lock, unlock, and start a compatible vehicle with ...

It was a 'blink and you missed it' announcement, but during WWDC 2025, Apple revealed that 13 car manufacturers would be ...

Keyless car theft is rampant in both Europe and the United States, but a new Apple-led consortium is planning to make digital car keys safer and more popular by creating some new industry ...

Car Key lets you store a digital version of your car key in Apple’s Wallet app. You can then unlock your car by holding your phone or watch close to the lock. This operates via NFC, so is very ...

Google launched its Digital Car Key feature on select Android 12 phones last year, allowing owners to automatically unlock and start supported vehicles with the phone in their pocket -- no key fob ...

Hyundai isn't the first automaker to employ the smartphone as a key. Tesla's Model 3 also uses the phone, via Bluetooth, to open the car and prepare it for use as the driver gets within range of ...

Apple’s reliance on NFC for their digital car keys suggests that the feature could be using the Car Connectivity Consortium’s Digital Key Release 2.0 specification, which was finalized in May.

Going forward, digital car keys in Android’s Google Wallet will no longer be restricted to one user. Google is adding the ability to share your digital car keys with other people who need access.

Apple made its first Car Key announcement in 2020, and Google soon followed suit, introducing digital car keys as a part of the Android 12 update in 2021. The tech allows users with compatible ...

Apple Pay Chief Suggests Digital Car Keys Could Expand to Rentals. Thursday October 17, 2024 12:30 pm PDT by Juli Clover. As Apple celebrates the 10th anniversary of Apple Pay, ...

Apple introduced a digital car key feature in iPhones in 2020, but the list of supported brands has been stagnant ever since. Now, some of the latest Genesis and Kia models are compatible with the ...

The first model to work with Apple's car key will be the 2021 BMW 5 Series, which comes out in July. No doubt other brands will be eager to add this to their tech spec list, too, and, as Apple ...