{"id":2597,"date":"2025-07-18T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icarmode.com\/blog\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2025-07-18T17:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:33:59","slug":"version-8-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icarmode.com\/blog\/version-8-0\/","title":{"rendered":"iCarMode 8.0 is rolling out \u2013 meet your new road-trip co-pilot \ud83d\ude80"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After months of coding, testing (and a few hundred kilometres behind the wheel), iCarMode 8.0<\/strong> has left the garage. This is our biggest release yet, bringing smarter navigation, a fully rebuilt podcast experience, sleeker music & radio players, and the most powerful Theme Wizard we\u2019ve ever shipped.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\ud83d\ude97 What\u2019s new<\/strong><\/th>\r\nWhy you\u2019ll love it<\/strong><\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n
Dual turn-by-turn engines<\/strong> \u2013 Google Maps joins Mapbox<\/td>\r\nChoose your map, keep guidance on-screen, and control playback from the new mini-player<\/strong> that lives at the bottom of every navigation view.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
All-new Podcasts player<\/strong><\/td>\r\nBigger buttons, clearer artwork, an Up Next<\/strong> panel you can reorder, plus Binge Mode<\/strong> that plays a show front-to-back or<\/strong> back-to-front<\/em> \u2013 perfect for story series.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Refreshed Music & Radio players<\/strong><\/td>\r\nEnlarged touch targets, sharper track\/station info, and buttery-smooth swipes between sources.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Theme Wizard improvements<\/strong><\/td>\r\nPick one of our backgrounds or import your own<\/em>, tweak foreground\/background colors, change button count & size per page, and drag-reorder buttons to design your perfect dashboard.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Performance overhaul<\/strong><\/td>\r\nFaster launches, snappy transitions, and more realistic button feedback throughout the app.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n

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\u00b7 Navigation that plays nicely with your tunes<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

Google Maps now rides shotgun alongside Mapbox. Flip between engines in Settings \u2192 Navigation<\/strong> without losing iCarMode\u2019s big-button UI. And because music never stops, a persistent mini-player<\/strong> for Podcasts, Music or<\/strong> Radio sits at the bottom of the map, letting you pause, skip, or glance at what\u2019s playing without leaving the route.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Naviation + Mini Player<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n
\"Waze\r\n
Waze warnings<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n
\"Navigation\r\n
Navigation on Main screen<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n

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\u00b7 Podcasts, re-engineered for the road<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

The Podcasts player gets a complete makeover:<\/p>\r\n\r\n