I saw that yesterday as well. I think the only way to tell is to go to your car and follow the pairing instructions for the phone. Hopefully they supported it retroactively to cars that originally had it. Versus only supporting it for new models being delivered as a marketing gimmick to get you to buy a newer car. The later is just plain wrong!

 

I’m holding out hope, especially with the 2023 Sonata not having any major announced changes related to Digital Key.

 

And, when they updated the App, Remote Commands are now off center on the iPhone. Note Locate Car is cropped.

 

The remote commands scrolls horizontally—it also has engine stop, horn and lights, and flash lights further to the right.

 

Hyundai and Apple are part of the Global Car Connectivity Consortium, which defines the specifications for Digital Key. Apple wallet digital keys require the CCC Digital Key 2.0 spec to work. It’s also forwards compatible with Digital Key 3.0 (can use bluetooth LE and iPhone’s U1 UWB chip).

The spec that currently exists in ALL Hyundai vehicles (except for the new 2023 Palisade and Genesis GV60) is CCC Digital Key 1.0. Without a modification to either the car’s hardware and software, Apple Car Keys will not be compatible with our cars.

Also would like to point out that an “infotainment software update” is extremely unlikely to bring support for Digital Key 2.0, the infotainment system is separate from the Digital Key system and thus one cannot update the other. This is why infotainment software updates have zero effect on our digital instrument clusters, as they are running two separate systems and only communicate via CAN.

(Apple CarKey’s first supported car manufacturer, BMW, faced the same problem as their existing cars with Digital Key 1.0 could not support Apple CarKeys, and required newer production cars with newer hardware & software to work. They provided no upgrade path for existing owners with Digital Key 1.0.)

Source:

Introducing Car Keys - WWDC20 - Videos - Apple Developer

You can now store car keys on iPhone or Apple Watch. You no longer have to bring your key fob to unlock and start your car. And with...

developer.apple.com

Car Connectivity Consortium – An organization advancing global technologies for smartphone-to-car connectivity solutions

global-carconnectivity.org

 

Hyundai and Apple are part of the Global Car Connectivity Consortium, which defines the specifications for Digital Key. Apple wallet digital keys require the CCC Digital Key 2.0 spec to work. It’s also forwards compatible with Digital Key 3.0 (can use bluetooth LE and iPhone’s U1 UWB chip).

The spec that currently exists in ALL Hyundai vehicles (except for the new 2023 Palisade and Genesis GV60) is CCC Digital Key 1.0. Without a modification to either the car’s hardware and software, Apple Car Keys will not be compatible with our cars.

Also would like to point out that an “infotainment software update” is extremely unlikely to bring support for Digital Key 2.0, the infotainment system is separate from the Digital Key system and thus one cannot update the other. This is why infotainment software updates have zero effect on our digital instrument clusters, as they are running two separate systems and only communicate via CAN.

(Apple CarKey’s first supported car manufacturer, BMW, faced the same problem as their existing cars with Digital Key 1.0 could not support Apple CarKeys, and required newer production cars with newer hardware & software to work. They provided no upgrade path for existing owners with Digital Key 1.0.)

Source:

Introducing Car Keys - WWDC20 - Videos - Apple Developer

You can now store car keys on iPhone or Apple Watch. You no longer have to bring your key fob to unlock and start your car. And with...

developer.apple.com

Car Connectivity Consortium – An organization advancing global technologies for smartphone-to-car connectivity solutions

global-carconnectivity.org

I’m interested where requiring DK 2.0 is required for Apple CarKeys. According to the video, the system can primarily use NFC. DK 1.0 supports that. 1.0 also supports the implementation of a “Secure Enclave” as Apple refers to it — the CCC talks about DK 1.0 allowing the use of a hardware secure element.

Of course previous cars wouldn’t be compatible with UWB, but it appears that DK 1.0 supports hardware based security environments. This is taken directly from the DK 1.0 white page: “we assume a hardware based trusted execution environment”. It appears that 2.0 REQUIRES it, instead of assuming it. Now this is just security, if there are any other concerns please correct me — I love learning about all of this.

 

Really a bummer! Somehow I expected that we'd be left behind in this.

 

none of the current models support the digital key from the Apple website.

iOS - CarPlay - Available Models

Find out which automobile manufacturers currently offer or are planning to introduce models that support CarPlay.

www.apple.com

 

none of the current models support the digital key from the Apple website.

iOS - CarPlay - Available Models

Find out which automobile manufacturers currently offer or are planning to introduce models that support CarPlay.

www.apple.com

Sure, but neither were the Genesis or Kia models until they added them

 

Really wouldn’t make sense for iPhone to not support this, especially as it was stated that Apple unlocked NFC for Hyundai digital key use. That’s all that is needed, which is why it was never a concern with the unrestricted NFC of android phones. Hyundai’s digital key specifically only needs NFC with current cars supporting it. While the digital key standard may be older, there’s really no reason to just not allow it to work. May be a marketing move by Hyundai at the end of 2020+ sonatas do not get it.

 

I called Hyundai USA customer service and they mentioned it was only coming to the new Palisade. All other vehicles are out of luck. Left a complaint with them. Hopefully, more people will do the same and the customer pressure will change their mind. The link to the customer service is shown below.

Hyundai Customer Service