This $90 adapter makes your car’s CarPlay wireless before Thanksgiving road trips

Macworld TL;DR: Turn wired CarPlay or Android Auto wireless with this streaming adapter for $89.97 (reg. $149.99). Lots of cars from the last decade support CarPlay, but only through a cable plugged into the dash. On a long Thanksgiving drive, that cable is one more thing to untangle every time someone gets back in the car. If you’d rather leave your iPhone in your pocket, try this wireless CarPlay and Android Auto adapter. Through November 15, it costs $89.97 (reg. $149.99) and ships free. Plug the adapter into the USB port your car already uses for CarPlay, and your phone will connect over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth afterward. Dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi keeps the connection fast, and dual Bluetooth 4.2 and 5.0 support connecting multiple devices at once. A quad-core Qualcomm chip and Android 11 run the adapter, so it doubles as a small streaming box. YouTube, Netflix, and the Google Play Store come preinstalled. Along with 16GB of storage, a microSD sl