Hey everyone,

I’m a student iOS developer working on a small video playback app for beta testing, and I’m having trouble getting video to display properly in CarPlay with cars that support carplay. I use CarTV latest updates and it worked on many cars that support carplay, I tested using IOS 26.7z

I’ve been experimenting with Apple’s CarPlay audio and video entitlements, but I can’t seem to get the expected video behavior on my physical device running iOS 26.7. Other CarPlay apps work fine CarTV APTV etc.. on the same device, so I suspect I might be missing a configuration step or using the wrong implementation approach in Swift.

When testing in the simulator, video playback works in playback mode only , but I haven’t been able to get everything working as expected on the actual device.
I’ve noticed that CarTV seems to handle this functionality successfully so I’m hoping someone familiar with CarPlay video apps can point me in the right direction.

I’m mainly trying to understand the correct implementation and get my beta app working as intended.
Thanks in advance!

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