Although GM determined to drop Apple CarPlay (and Android Auto) from its autos a number of years in the past, it is now rolling out native Apple Music help on choose Cadillac and Chevrolet fashions.
The music-streaming service might be built-in into the car’s infotainment system at no additional price for eight years with the corporate’s OnStar Fundamentals bundle on the next fashions:
Cadillac:
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2025 and 2026 CT5
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2025 Escalade IQ
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2026 Vistiq
Chevrolet:
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2025 and 2026 Blazer EV, Equinox EV, and Silverado EV
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2026 Corvette, Suburban, and Tahoe
Assist for extra fashions, together with these from Buick, GMC, and the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt, are “on the best way,” GM says.
Drivers do not must do something particular to make use of Apple Music. The app will seem routinely on supported autos, and you may sign up from there. “New listeners can enroll with only a faucet on the dashboard,” GM provides.
On the Cadillacs, Apple Music subscribers can faucet into the platform’s library of Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos tracks, “reworking the cabin into an immersive, three-dimensional sound surroundings designed across the car’s acoustics,” GM says.
GM dropped help for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in 2023 to keep away from designing options in “a approach which are depending on [a] particular person having a cellphone,” GM stated on the time. An exec later argued that “stability points” with each platforms may also end in misplaced connections. Folks then get distracted and take their eyes off the highway making an attempt to re-connect.
The choice did not sit effectively with some drivers. “I used to be out there for a brand new car, have had GMs my entire life however after I heard they had been dropping CarPlay I seemed elsewhere. Now I’ve a Toyota,” one Redditor wrote this week.
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“Apple CarPlay is necessary for me. “Let me know once they add CarPlay again, then I will possibly contemplate shopping for a GM,” wrote one other.
Rivian has additionally averted CarPlay in favor of its personal in-car platform, however it too added native Apple Music help final yr. In the meantime, Tesla, which has its personal touch-screen-based sprint is rumored to be growing help for CarPlay.
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