Real CarPlay Mod v1.2 – GPS, Spotify, YouTube & Phone Control | ETS2 + ATS

CARPLAY FOR EURO TRUCK SIMULATOR 2 & AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR – v1.2 by Express Mods & Tips
>>> WATCH THE VIDEO FIRST. THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL. <<<
This mod is NOT a normal .scs file you drop in the mod folder. It is a launcher plus a ReShade add-on, and there is one manual step (ReShade with add-on support). The video shows the whole install from zero, step by step, in under 3 minutes.
Do not skip it. 90% of the "it doesn't work" reports are people who never watched it and installed plain ReShade without add-on support. If you post a problem, the first question will be whether you watched the video – so save yourself the wait and watch it now.
WHAT IT DOES
Puts a real CarPlay-style screen inside your truck's dashboard display:
– GPS with the REAL in-game map. Not a picture: your actual route, your actual roads, moving with the truck. – Spotify with cover art, track name and controls. – YouTube and any other window you want to mirror on the screen. – Full control from your phone: scan the QR code and you get the music, the GPS and YouTube on your handset while you drive. – Automatic night brightness. The dashboard screen dims with the cabin light, like the real thing. – Works with both games and with modded trucks.
NEW IN v1.2
– 9 languages, fully automatic. Launcher, dashboard, control panel and the phone page all follow your Windows language: English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Turkish. Change it by hand in Settings -> Language if you want. Your phone uses ITS OWN language, so your co-driver can be on a different one at the same time. – Rebuilt icons: no more blurry taskbar icon. – Detects ReShade even when it lives in a subfolder, so it coexists with graphics mods like SnowyMoon (see COMPATIBILITY below).
REQUIREMENTS
– Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit – Euro Truck Simulator 2 or American Truck Simulator – Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge – ReShade 6.7.3 WITH ADD-ON SUPPORT – included in the package, and the launcher's guided step installs it for you. IMPORTANT: the plain ReShade build does NOT work. It must be the one with add-on support, and you must tick that checkbox. – Internet connection on first run (downloads ~110 MB of Python runtime, once only)
You do NOT need Python installed. It ships portable.
HOW TO INSTALL (summary – the video shows it properly)
1. Download and unzip. Inside you get two things: the installer (CarPlay-Setup) and the portable version. Either one is enough.
2. Installer: double click CarPlay-Setup, accept the admin prompt, follow the wizard. It picks your Windows language automatically. Tick the guided-step box at the end.
Portable: unzip anywhere and double click INICIAR. Do NOT run it from inside the ZIP and do NOT put it in "Program Files". Desktop or D:\ are fine.
3. First launch downloads what it needs and takes a couple of minutes. Once only – after that it opens instantly.
4. In the launcher, open the DIAGNOSTICS tab. Anything red has its own Fix button or download link. When everything is green, you are done.
5. ReShade is the only manual step and the launcher walks you through it: hit the guided step, install ReShade WITH add-on support, and it applies the menu configuration to the game for you.
6. Press START CARPLAY and launch the game. The screen appears on its own in the truck's radio display.
7. Phone: the launcher shows a link and a QR code. Scan it with your camera. PC and phone must be on the SAME WiFi network.
INCLUDED EXTRA – AUTOBLINKER
Automatic turn signals: the indicator switches on by itself when you turn the wheel past ~70 degrees and switches off when you straighten up. Works with any truck including mods, because it uses the official SCS telemetry SDK instead of faking keypresses. Optional checkbox in the installer – take it or leave it.
COMPATIBILITY – SNOWYMOON AND OTHER GRAPHICS MODS
If you use SnowyMoon, Lighting Improvements or any mod that also needs dxgi.dll, you do NOT have to choose between them. Those mods take dxgi.dll in the root folder and load ReShade from a subfolder:
1. Create the folder: \bin\win_x64\reshade (the launcher's guided step creates it for you if it detects the other mod) 2. In the ReShade installer, at the folder step, pick THAT folder – not the root. 3. Tick add-on support as usual.
The launcher searches subfolders too, so the add-on, the menu config and the Diagnostics tab all end up in the right place by themselves. Diagnostics will show it as "Installed in the reshade subfolder".
Credits: Express Mods & Tips