MileCheckUpdated July 4, 2026: it shipped. CarPlay went live June 14 and Android Auto followed on June 18 — both approved, both in production, both included for every MileCheck user at no extra cost.
Your nearest mile marker, your road, and what's ahead — on the car screen, in one glance. That's the whole product, and that's on purpose. To explain why, you have to know how CarPlay actually works.
CarPlay isn't open — you have to be let in
Most people assume any app can put itself on the car screen. It can't. Apple only allows a short list of app categories onto CarPlay — navigation, audio, messaging, EV charging, fueling, parking, and a few others — and every app needs an entitlement Apple grants by hand after review.
The category MileCheck was approved under is called Driving Task, and it's the narrowest of them all. Apple created it for exactly one kind of app: tools that help with a task you genuinely do while driving. To be approved, the app has to prove it belongs in that moment — and to stay approved, it has to live inside strict rules:
- Glanceable or nothing. The interface has to be readable in a single look. If it takes studying, it doesn't ship.
- Apple's templates only. No custom screens, no feeds, no video, no scrolling content. The system draws the interface; the app supplies only the driving-relevant information.
- No fiddling. Setup and settings stay on the phone, parked. The car screen exists for the drive, not for configuration.
It's a real review, not a checkbox, and plenty of apps never make it through. Getting the entitlement — Apple granted ours June 5, 2026 — meant the reviewers agreed: knowing your mile marker is a driving task.
Deliberately boring is the feature
Car screens keep getting busier — feeds, menus, animations, touchscreen everything. The Driving Task rules force the opposite, and honestly, we think the rules are right. AAA Foundation research has found that using CarPlay is less demanding than fumbling with a phone or wrestling the carmaker's built-in system. One glance: SR 99 · mile 34.5 · lane closure ahead. Eyes back on the road.
If you manage risk — a fleet, a safety program, an insurance conversation — that's the sentence that matters: the car screen is designed so there's nothing to interact with.
What it shows
The same data the phone app runs on: real-time mile markers in all 50 states, live road alerts from 48 state DOT feeds — closures, crashes, construction, chain requirements — for the road you're on. Plug in, drive, glance.
And it's included for everyone
CarPlay and Android Auto aren't paid add-ons or a premium tier. If you have MileCheck, you have the car screen. The phone app is live on iOS and Android — mile markers in all 50 US states, live DOT alerts in 48. Premium is $9.99 per year or $1.99 a month with a 7-day free trial.