VW Planning to Offer Apple Wallet Car Keys on iPhone

Thursday July 2, 2026 10:09 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

VW Apple Wallet Car Key Mock Volkswagen is planning to offer Apple Wallet car keys in future vehicles, according to new server-side Apple code.

The code does not provide any more details, so we do not know which VW vehicle models will offer the feature or when.

With an Apple Wallet car key, you can use your iPhone or Apple Watch to lock, unlock, and start your vehicle. The feature is already offered by Audi, BMW, Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and select other automakers in various countries.

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Top Rated Comments

zhangcheng34

16 weeks ago

I'm guessing you will pay for subscription to have this feature.

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

HouseLannister

16 weeks ago

Don't trust code leaks as a sign of upcoming support. Same code was found in Lexus and no announcement months later. And I think the only Toyota that got it post-code discovery was the RAV4 and that was only with an extra subscription. There's a difference between "planning" to do something and just "testing."

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Plutonius

16 weeks ago

That's assuming that VW is still around in the future.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

RaceTripper

16 weeks ago

No, but we should ditch GM because of their shoddy products.

Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android to go with their own proprietary solution is enough of a deal-breaker for me to avoid GM vehicles altogether.

Hyundai – OTOH – says they will adopt CarPlay Ultra although I'm not sure if they'll make it backward compatible to my '26 Palisade (via a firmware update).

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

svish

16 weeks ago

Good! Should have been available a long time ago. Will be very useful and convenient.

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