GM CEO Mary Barra says consumers should expect the full phase out of CarPlay and Google’s CarPlay knockoff, Android Auto, in both electric and gas-powered vehicles over the next few years. Just last week, GM took a $1.6 billion write-down on its anemic EV business due to shrinking demand.
GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra.
In a Decoder interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel, published Wednesday, Barra confirmed GM will eventually end support of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on both gas-powered and electric cars as the company proceeds to a major rollout of what it’s calling a new centralized computing platform, set to launch in 2028.
In place of phone projection, GM is working to update its current Android-powered infotainment experience with a Google Gemini-powered assistant and an assortment of other custom apps, built both in-house and with partners.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote when GM promised to end support in its EV lineup, “For us, and many, many others, General Motors simply moves even further out of consideration for future purchases (GM never really was in consideration anyway).”
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Makes it an easy decision to not buy a GM car.
End all the focus on EV, and not slowly migrate = smart
End CarPlay ability = dumb
Is GM just asking Apple to get back into the car ecosystem, and create a car?
There is no reason for them to stop allowing CarPlay to work.
A better strategy would be to create your new OS, and see how consumers like it and IF they choose to use it. If not, you still make customers happy with what they desire, without forcing them. And IF they want to make a dedicated UI, please do not use Android….
Another dumb move by a dumb company.
If I’m going to buy a C8 Corvette, it had better have CarPlay native. But no it won’t. So the Mustang Dark Horse or a M4 Competition might suit me better – or even a used Porsche or Ferrari that actually has CarPlay. Sheesh. GM is sooooo stupid.
After experiencing CarPlay for several years on multiple vehicles and screen sizes – I would not buy a car without CarPlay. GM is making a play at reoccurring service revenue. And they’re doing it at the expense of selling more vehicles. Simply put, GM doesn’t make any vehicle that is so popular anyone in their right mind would overlook support for iOS or Driod.
I was very opposed to this move when I first learned of it. But having watched several reviews of vehicles that “don’t have CarPlay” I have learned that they can still send/receive text messages via Siri. And they can still play podcasts/music through the stereo, of course. These are my two most important use cases.
They won’t have mapping integrated, but there’s a good chance I’d use the car’s built-in mapping anyway for road trips (since it knows the state of the battery pack, where compatible chargers are, etc.). I’m still not itching to buy a GM vehicle, but I no longer view this as a dealbreaker.
The reason is simple. If they support CarPlay and Android Auto, their is no reason for me to subscribe to their overpriced mobile Internet service required by their system to work. In addition, if I don’t activate their mobile Internet, their is no way for them to gather all my person information, like every command I utter to their AI, or what song I listen to and without that, they can’t sell that to other companies and make even more money. Apple and Android (Google) add features to their phones weekly, do you think GM has any incentive to update theirs? Nope.
Dumb move you should still have the option and if built in is better people will use but you just solidified my decision to never buy a GM.
I just bought a 2025 Yukon Denali. The Android operating system crashes every few weeks, even while driving. It connects unreliably to CarPlay and twice I’ve had to delete it from my phone and re-add it with Bluetooth. It is a terrible interface.
Siri sucks. But the Android interface GM uses is just as incompetent. CarPlay minus Siri is so much better.
GM will charge for continued use of their system–forever.
Built in navigation has been poor on all cars I’ve experienced.
The car has become the accessory to the Car Play platform.
You buy Car Play, and it just comes with any old wheels attached to it, and is expendable.
Because OnStar is so good???
GM’s products, by and large, are still a better value than the garbage Ford and Stellantis offer.
Our experience includes an F150 that needed a new transmission after 80k miles, and a Dodge with electronic gremlins. Our Buicks, Yukon, Corvette, and even our humble little Chevy Cavalier never gave us any problems. We also have enjoyed several German cars, at least before TariffKing made that unaffordable.
advice: get your priorities straight. If you can’t live without Apple Maps on a goddamn touchscreen under your nose at all times, … superglue your iPad to the dashboard. Waze, Mapquest, WegoHere, and Google are all equal to Apple Maps and can get you where you need to go. Assuming, of course, you actually bought a reliable car instead of the biggest dashboard screen for which your credit could stretch.