Apple Classical Music - CarPlay

But….on my phone, 2 seperate icons and interfaces. The absence of an icon on Carplay for Classical seems to be a glaring oversight.

Nope. I can’t interact with Apple Classical directly in CarPlay. If I’m connected I can open the Classical app on my phone and get the music to play through CarPlay but the app itself doesn’t show up on my car’s screen the way other CarPlay enabled apps do.

Agree 100%! It’s not integrated. Is Apple providing timeline as to when it’s going to be integrated? Now, I cannot use CarPlay screen, only my iPhone, which is not safe when driving.

Disappointing!

"In essence" it is not integrated with any apple functionality, including siri.

Gaslighting.

Not the same thing. The Apple Classical app is tailored to classical music, with some items labeled “exclusive”, and many classical playlists without the clutter from other genres.

The “Now playing” app will show whatever I choose from Apple Classical Music on my iPhone, however

Correct. You cannot interact through apple classical, only through music (at least right now). The classical is just layered on top of Apple Music. So, search whatever you would like in classical, make a playlist, control the playlists through car play.

I'm also waiting for it to be available as a separate app on CarPlay and Apple Watch. I suspect that Apple is waiting to see how popular it is before adding more features, although I can't imagine it's a heavy lift to add it.

You can play Apple classical selections on CarPlay if you first download them into your classical library. Then they show up in Apple Music but without the more detailed indexing from Apple classical. It is easiest to use CarPlay if you create and download a classical playlist. You can then use CarPlay for Apple Music and select the downloaded classical playlist.

It essence, it already is. The ACM interface allows you to access your music library and add items to the Apple Music library by making playlists. Those lists are accessible in Apple Music.

The classical interface appears to be a search feature layered on top on Apple Music. Any integration happens through music.

Yeah but thats pretty clunky

When app classical can be applied to CarPlay?

But it is not integrated in apple CarPlay yet

You also need to download Apple classical selections on a playlist in order to be able to play the selections in a Sonos system through Apple Musuc browse.