Surprisingly, CarPlay is unavailable in some countries. In fact, it’s unavailable in the vast majority of the globe’s countries, given that this list is 36 items long and the number of countries currently hovers at 195.
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil2
- Canada
- Chile2
- China
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- India2
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Republic of Korea
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia2
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand2
- Turkey
- UK
- United Arab Emirates2
- USA
Source: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#apple-carplay
Here’s a post on Apple Discussions by an owner of a new car, a CarPlay-compatible car, who can’t get CarPlay to work because he’s in a non-available country (Malta). He has an iPhone 6, a phone well within the CarPlay compatibility range, and (at the time) an iOS version that also qualifies to run CarPlay.
End of last year I bought the new SEAT LEON FR with the latest stereo + system. My car is listed in the Carplay compatibility list. But unfortunately the country I live in which is Malta, it’s not listed in the chosen contries list. So I have the latest car with the latest beefed up stereo with a nice big full colour touch screen, I have an iPhone 6 with the latest IOS version 9.2.1 but still can’t use it when I thought I was going to finally have Carplay in my new futuristic car.
Why isn’t Malta one of the chosen contries. I would really love to use it. Something else I would like to ask is, since my stereo unit is fully compatible with Carplay aND its just a country issue, will SEAT be able to install the system once it’s released to my country or do I have to buy a new car?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7444874
We don’t know what the behavior is in one of these countries, if it displays a message or just won’t activate entirely. If you know, please drop us a line.