You can send your car key with the Messages app
We don't think it's something that is going to arrive immediately but the screenshots and leaks out there are CarKey together with BMW They make us think that this system of opening / closing the car and starting / stopping through the iPhone would be closer and closer.
We can say that carkey It will allow users that when approaching their car with their iPhone or Apple Watch in hand, they will be able to identify themselves by means of the vehicle's NFC reader and by means of Face ID to make the vehicle unlock automatically.
The "Apple Pay" of cars could arrive soon
And we can say that this is a system similar to Apple Pay, a payment service in which the user adds the credit or debit card to the iPhone, Apple Watch and other Apple devices with which pay safely. Well, in this case it is about sharing our car key in a similar way in Wallet, thus allowing us to open and close and even start the car using the iPhone or Apple Watch.
For the correct operation of this, two protagonists enter the scene: Digital Key 3.0 based on Bluetooth LE and Ultra Wideband. In these cases with the iPhone in the pocket in the backpack, bag, etc., we will be able to start the car directly thanks to this connectivity. In this case the tests are being carried out with some BMW models and many tests have to continue to be carried out for this to come to fruition and to be officially launched. It is not something easy to implement since it must be clear that some iPhone models have Ultra Wideband support and others do not. We may have more data in the next version of iOS or even in iOS 14, We'll see if Apple shows us something at the next WWDC it would be interesting to know some more details.