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Apple Car Key Support Coming to Future Mahindra Vehicles

Apple's Car Keys feature appears to be coming to future vehicles made by Indian maker Mahindra, based on code changes discovered by MacRumors in Apple's Wallet app backend.

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Car Keys allows an iPhone or Apple Watch with NFC capabilities to unlock a vehicle through the Wallet app. A digital version of a car key is stored in Wallet, and unlocking can be done simply by holding an Apple Watch or ‌iPhone‌ near a compatible vehicle's NFC reader.

Mahindra already supports Samsung Wallet's Digital Car Key feature for Galaxy devices, but it does not yet offer native Apple Car Key support, so this would need to be implemented by the automobile manufacturer first on future models.

What can be done with Car Keys may vary by car manufacturer, but at a minimum, Car Keys can be used to unlock your car, lock your car, and start your car, which are the features available with a physical key.

Apple introduced Car Keys in 2022, and car manufacturers like BMW, Rivian, Kia, and Hyundai have all implemented support for Car Keys. Apple maintains a full list of vehicles that support Car Keys on its CarPlay model availability webpage.

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Top Rated Comments

14 weeks ago
Thank god, I was waiting to buy my next Mahindra vehicle until this happened.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
14 weeks ago
Mahindra ? never heard of it
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
H.E. Pennypacker Avatar
14 weeks ago

They’re the 5th most popular car brand in the most populated country on earth.
You say this as if we all should know who this brand is. I’m 44 years old. Never heard of them.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
User 6502 Avatar
14 weeks ago

They’re the 5th most popular car brand in the most populated country on earth.
That is not a very useful metric. It could be well be it’s popular just there and in absolute terms worldwide sells very little. I would be surprised if it makes it in the top 20 of the most popular car brands worldwide.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dannyyankou Avatar
14 weeks ago

Mahindra ? never heard of it
They’re the 5th most popular car brand in the most populated country on earth.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
14 weeks ago
Good to know about this. Glad to see that more car manufacturers are supporting the functionality.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)