The upcoming iOS 18.4 update for the iPhone includes a smaller but meaningful improvement for Apple's in-car iPhone mirroring ...

but this time showing the Audi logo. There’s a whole collection of Audi-specific images filed, suggesting that these are the designs that will make up the Apple CarPlay experience for Audi cars.

The unexpected often happens: users of iOS 18.4, the first beta of which was released last week after a long wait, are also reporting improvements to Apple's iPhone-car integration CarPlay.

But this new version of CarPlay makes me think Apple is back ... no matter how much I’m sure it would love to see a little Apple logo at the foot of the main display. It instead wants to ...