The Audi A6 Avant E-Tron is the first of the company’s cars to support Car Key – and a shared platform means we can also be confident it’s coming soon to some Porsche EVs.Audi hasn’t yet formally announced Car Key support for its latest station wagon, but it was discovered in the Audi app during a review of the car … What is Car Key? Car Key is a way to add a virtual copy of your car key to the Wallet app on iPhone and Apple Watch.Depending on implementation, it can either be used to manually lock and unlock the car, or be used passively – where just walking away from your car will lock it, and approaching it will unlock it.
Car Key also offers the ability to create shared keys for use by selected contacts, where you can grant someone temporary use of your car.Audi A6 Avant E-Tron gets Car Key support French site discovered that support had been quietly added to the app for the new model.The site wasn’t very impressed with the Audi app otherwise, noting that it was either slow to update with status changes, or failed to do so at all.
But at least Car Key means you can now lock and unlock the car with your iPhone or Apple Watch.Porsche EV support next notes that the E-Tron is built on a platform shared with Porsche.Porsche sees this as, uh, key to its plans to electrify existing models.
Given the common platform, this means we can expect upcoming Porsche EVs to also support Car Key. You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day.Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop.
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