Smartphones are a common replacement for credit and debit cards thanks to features like Google Pay and Apple Pay. As more car makers update their tech, your smartphone might just be a replacement for ...

Chandra Steele has been writing about tech for the entirety of her journalism career. She loves making tough topics easy to understand. Before joining Android Police, Chandra was senior features ...

Google has released the May 2026 system services update. The update improves car key sharing in Google Wallet with new “guest” and “service” roles. It also improves the Play Store on bigger screens, ...

Update: And just like that, now Lexus enters the fray. Reports indicate the Toyota-owned luxury brand will add support for iPhone car keys in the coming months, according to references found in ...

Apple Wallet got a lot of new features with iOS 26, but another key improvement is that car key support keeps expanding to more vehicle brands. Here are the recent and upcoming major car key launches.

Vehicle thefts are rising in Minneapolis in 2026, driven in part by thieves using modern key-programming devices to hijack a car in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. Andrei Damian, a Twin Cities ...

Apple Car Key has been around for years. Toyota is finally on board, starting with the RAV4, but with a few strings attached. Toyota adds Apple Car Key for 2026 RAV4, select trims, in the US only.

Among the most promising tools of cancer therapy, engineered immune cells known as chimeric antigen-receptor (CAR) T cells have already transformed the treatment of blood cancers. Yet, despite their ...

It’s official. Apple’s digital car key ecosystem now includes the Toyota RAV4. It’s the first vehicle from the brand with the technology, and it didn’t even get a fancy press release to tout the ...

Users of the Apple Wallet app can now use a digital Car Key to lock and unlock the Toyota Rav4, but the feature's availability has yet to expand to other Toyota vehicles. More than 30 vehicle ...

The past year has been a big one for Apple Wallet and CarPlay additions, and Apple has teased that more is coming. Last WWDC, the company named 13 new automakers that had pledged to add car keys in ...

A "key" feature of today's car keys is not having to physically touch them to enter or start the car, thanks to developments like RFID proximity technology (which is short for radio frequency ...