My Corsa and Vivaro do full screen CarPlay and Android Auto. They're both Stellantis vehicles with identical EV bits; the Corsa especially is little more than a rebadged 208, so I'm certain the software is the same. Some pictures of what you're seeing might help explain the issue.

 

If you have the big screen in the e208 with the GT trim then Carplay isn't full screen - it's the same size as it is on the smaller screen version, which is a different aspect ratio, and the extra space on left and right is just used to show the temperature of the climate and some other icons.

I think they did this for screen formatting reasons - the iPhone's options for output onto an infotainment screen have specific aspect ratio requirements and the GT screen is too wide for it to be full screen and the phone can't just make it extra wide.

 

3 - Infotainment and Buttons

3 Finger hold brings up the same 6 options as the buttons above the toggle switches.

The phone button launches apple carplay or android auto if you switced to the climate screen saves having to press the application button then carplay or android auto.

You can still access bluetooth menu even if you have android auto or carplay connected, you just have to go into profiles and then settings and then its under wifi/network connections. So badly laid about but again it's french.

To fully turn off climate control you have to turn on air recirculation? Took me ages to figure out why I could still feel air coming into the car but thats why, just me?

To re-engage climate control, press off again? Again wierd and french.

The windows go all the way down. You just have to press the down switch on the window an extra 3 times? Why does it not it just go all the way down the first time idk, but again its french.

Courtesy Light. Don't push/touch, swipe instead works way better.

Start Stop Button. When you've parked don't press P or apply handbrake just hold to turn off the car it will do those things itself.

4 - Things I wish it had/did but doesn't have/do.

Why on earth do we not have themes? The ICE cars can change the infotainment colours to red, green or blue, but we get stuck with just blue.

Why didn't peugeot just put a dial either side of the switches, one for temperature, one for volume. Or make the toggles switches up and down buttons so we could adjust temperature with them.

No full screen android auto/carplay. Stupid.

Not moving the fusebox over. Stupid.

Not remembering the drive mode or things like auto wiper.

Kept the paddles from the ICE car's and use them to adjust regen.

Full one pedal driving.

There is probably a few things I have missed but might know there is a way around, so let me know if there's one I have forgotten. Also please let me know if there's a workaroud for any of the annoyances I can't seem to fix or just other quirks 😁.

Love the colour of that. I was torn between the blue and the red but ultimately picked the blue one. I think the red ones are rarer out on the road in the couple of years I've had it.

Your climate control turns off if you press the piano key for it with the temp symbol - if the temp display vanishes from the main screen on the left and right then the system is off. It doesn't necessarily close the vents to the outside though, so normal non-conditioned air will flow into the cabin.

You've probably also noticed that the climate screen gets more options if you press the button for it from the physical button cluster rather than tapping the temperature on the touch screen. This is how you get to the schedule options for the climate system coming on in the morning when the car is sleeping. You don't have to set this with the app (which is flaky).

The left and right temp displays for the climate is purely an aesthetic choice - it's not dual zone!

The glovebox is classic Peugeot. This has been going on for decades and is the same as my old diesel 307.

Courtesy lights - I'll put this here in case you accidentally turn them off - the puddle lights on the mirrors and the interior dome lights are linked together. If you press and hold on the ceiling touch control it will disable both and they won't come on when the doors are unlocked or when the doors open. Touch and hold to reverse that setting.

Putting the car in Sport mode will turn on the battery heater regardless of the power demands if it's below the optimum temperature (I believe it aims for above 20 C). This is an edge case, but might be useful to prevent the battery cold-gating if you need to rapid charge in the winter. Below 20 C limits the fast charge rate. There is nowhere in the car that will show you this data, however. The car uses the AC system to do this and can divert heating/cooling into the pack instead of/alongside the cabin heat exchanger.

I wish the car had a little more regen, or the ability to change the setting between different granular levels, but I think the total lack of one pedal mode was a patent issue when the car was designed.

Automatic emergency braking is very effective, but it turns itself off at very low speeds. It absolutely will slam on if you drive at a wall, but it will happily watch you creep up to that same wall at manoeuvring speed and let you drive right into it.

 

Love the colour of that. I was torn between the blue and the red but ultimately picked the blue one. I think the red ones are rarer out on the road in the couple of years I've had it.

Your climate control turns off if you press the piano key for it with the temp symbol - if the temp display vanishes from the main screen on the left and right then the system is off. It doesn't necessarily close the vents to the outside though, so normal non-conditioned air will flow into the cabin.

You've probably also noticed that the climate screen gets more options if you press the button for it from the physical button cluster rather than tapping the temperature on the touch screen. This is how you get to the schedule options for the climate system coming on in the morning when the car is sleeping. You don't have to set this with the app (which is flaky).

The left and right temp displays for the climate is purely an aesthetic choice - it's not dual zone!

The glovebox is classic Peugeot. This has been going on for decades and is the same as my old diesel 307.

Courtesy lights - I'll put this here in case you accidentally turn them off - the puddle lights on the mirrors and the interior dome lights are linked together. If you press and hold on the ceiling touch control it will disable both and they won't come on when the doors are unlocked or when the doors open. Touch and hold to reverse that setting.

Putting the car in Sport mode will turn on the battery heater regardless of the power demands if it's below the optimum temperature (I believe it aims for above 20 C). This is an edge case, but might be useful to prevent the battery cold-gating if you need to rapid charge in the winter. Below 20 C limits the fast charge rate. There is nowhere in the car that will show you this data, however. The car uses the AC system to do this and can divert heating/cooling into the pack instead of/alongside the cabin heat exchanger.

I wish the car had a little more regen, or the ability to change the setting between different granular levels, but I think the total lack of one pedal mode was a patent issue when the car was designed.

Automatic emergency braking is very effective, but it turns itself off at very low speeds. It absolutely will slam on if you drive at a wall, but it will happily watch you creep up to that same wall at manoeuvring speed and let you drive right into it.

Yeah noticed all the climate quirks you mentioned and I get the whole turning off the air con thing, I've just never had a car that still keeps the vents open though unless you turn on recirculation. Is that common? And yeah it like tricks you into thinking it has dual zone when it just doesn't haha.

Did not know that about sport mode. That's really cool! Thanks for sharing. How did you find this out? Is it mentioned in the manual? Will definitely do that like 10 mins before I turn up to a rapid charger.

 

My Corsa and Vivaro do full screen CarPlay and Android Auto. They're both Stellantis vehicles with identical EV bits; the Corsa especially is little more than a rebadged 208, so I'm certain the software is the same. Some pictures of what you're seeing might help explain the issue.

Yeah as Cptn said, Vauxhall infotainment is different from the rest of the PSA vehicles like the eC4 and the DS E-tense which have the exact same screen. They have theirs integrated into the center of the dash as it just borrowed from previous Corsa's and other Vauxhalls and runs a different software.

 

Here are the German files.