Volvo's New EX60 SUV Features Pre-Installed Apple Music App With Spatial Audio

Volvo's new EX60 mid-size electric SUV is set to be the first Volvo vehicle that comes with an Apple Music app pre-installed, Volvo said today. The vehicle will be equipped with ‌Apple Music‌ with Dolby Atmos, providing an immersive Spatial Audio experience.

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‌Apple Music‌ will be available as an app accessible through the vehicle's built-in infotainment system, making it available for those who do not use CarPlay. Using the app requires an ‌Apple Music‌ subscription.

Volvo is equipping the EX60 with its HuginCore system that integrates AI and technology developed by Google, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. Gemini is deeply integrated in the vehicle, allowing the car to be controlled with natural language commands.

While the EX60 has deep Google Gemini integration, it continues to support ‌CarPlay‌. Volvo says that Wireless Apple ‌CarPlay‌ comes standard on the EX60, with users able to connect their iPhone to the car's infotainment system to access Apple apps, music, and navigation.

The EX60 also includes digital key plus, so it can be unlocked and turned on with an ‌iPhone‌ or Apple Watch.

Volvo is selling the EX60 in European markets starting now, and US availability will follow in the spring. Orders will be delivered starting in summer.

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Top Rated Comments

kotaKat Avatar
2 weeks ago
And you’ll need a mandatory Google Account to use all of the vehicle’s features and services.

Feckin’ gross.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DavidLeblond Avatar
2 weeks ago

So no need for CarPlay.

GM will be proved right all along. The future is built in services rather than your phone screen connected to your car.
Meh, my wife's Tesla doesn't have CarPlay and yet has Apple Music and the UI is so terrible I end up doing bluetooth streaming through my phone. Just because it supports Apple Music doesn't mean it is like having CarPlay.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tomtad Avatar
2 weeks ago

Volvo is the ideal automaker to adopt CarPlay Ultra.
Which seems dead in the water. Apple's car strategy has failed
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
aardwolf Avatar
2 weeks ago
"Gemini is deeply integrated in the vehicle, allowing the car to be controlled with natural language commands."

TURN LEFT! I SAID TURN LEFT!!!!
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jdavid_rp Avatar
2 weeks ago

What makes this a bit more interesting is that Volvo’s whole screen thing is build on an Android platform.

So Apple Music on Android.
Well, Apple Music has been on android for a long time…
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
carswell Avatar
2 weeks ago
I hang out with a lot of audiophiles and musicians (classical and jazz), many of whom are also Apple people.

All of them, myself included, consider spatial audio a gimmick, a distraction, a "feature" that interferes with the music.

That said, none of us has, as far as I know, tried it out on a top-flight car audio system. Still colour me skeptical.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)