For the last week, I’ve been using the new Rivian Apple Watch app, and it’s pretty great. There are separate screens for security, climate control, and charge level, in addition to a mini dashboard that has everything you need.

Related, their recent integration of the digital car key into Apple Wallet has been running on my iPhone (and Apple Watch) flawlessly for six weeks. Not a single failure to unlock. It’s interesting how good Rivian is getting at supporting Apple devices with their applications while at the same time resisting CarPlay. In some ways they are a great Apple partner. In other ways, not so much.

Rivian has announced its own large language model that it will install in a future update, which will hopefully include the features I’m still missing from CarPlay. As I understand it, this update isn’t far off.

And yes, I named my car Peregrine.