New 'iOS In The Car" Feature To Work Over WiFi Via AirPlay

Yesterday Apple seeded the third beta for iOS 7 which came with a lot of new features and bugs fixes, among the new features Apple introduced in iOS 7 beta a new feature called "iOS in The car" It enables you to mirror your iPhone on your in-car display, allowing you to access Maps, Messages and other apps without having to take your eyes off the wheel.

Outside of that, and a list of the handful of auto-makers that have pledged to support it, not much has been said about the feature. A new report is out this afternoon, though, that offers up some new details on the whole thing. And apparently it’s going to work over Wi-Fi…

9to5Mac has the scoop:

“Since then, we have heard from the same sources that the feature is designed to work over AirPlay (in addition to USB/Lightning).
Hamza Sood, who has located several hidden features in iOS 7, corroborates this with a finding inside of internal Accessory Developer options in iOS 7.
These settings say iOS in the Car can work over WiFi, and this goes nicely with our independent iOS in the Car over AirPlay claims.”

And here's a quick screenshot from your iPhone and how to enable it:

The site goes on to say that it’s hearing Apple is already at work on a point update (something like 7.1 or 7.2), and this new version will include built-in support for iOS in the Car. Apple has said itself that the new feature will officially launch in 2014 with several auto-makers.

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