Your Dasher can use CarPlay to get your food to you now

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A picture showing an iPhone running the Dasher app’s navigation, while next to it, a car’s infotainment shows the same thing in Apple CarPlay
Image: DoorDash

DoorDash has added Apple CarPlay syncing to its Dasher app, which delivery workers use to accept deliveries and get to your house. For workers with Apple’s infotainment system software in their cars, that means they can spare their phone batteries the cruel and unusual punishment of hours of daily use in the sometimes hot, harsh environment of their car’s dashboard.

Dasher VP of logistics Austin Haugen says CarPlay support is one of the “most highly requested features among the Dasher community,” which makes sense. Phones are great for mapping and directions in cars, but they can introduce big problems when you rely on them for your job.

Image: DoorDash
The Dasher app with Apple CarPlay syncing in action.

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808483/doordash-carplay-support-delivery-driver-iphone-mount

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