GM can’t ‘bring back’ Apple CarPlay because it never left
GM can’t ‘bring back’ Apple CarPlay because it never left
通用汽车无法“带回”Apple CarPlay，因为它从未离开过
The recent reveal of GM’s new software interface in its trucks has left some people confused about the automaker’s stance on phone mirroring. 通用汽车近期在其卡车上发布了全新的软件界面，这让一些人对其在手机映射功能上的立场感到困惑。
Last week, GM announced a new software experience for its upcoming Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, including a new look for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the popular phone mirroring systems that the automaker made a big deal about removing from its electric vehicles in 2023. 上周，通用汽车宣布为其即将推出的雪佛兰 Silverado 和 GMC Sierra 卡车提供全新的软件体验，其中包括 Apple CarPlay 和 Android Auto 的新外观。这两款广受欢迎的手机映射系统，曾因通用汽车在 2023 年宣布将其从电动汽车中移除而引发轩然大波。
Naturally, this led to some confusion about whether GM was “bringing back” CarPlay and Android Auto to its vehicles. Yahoo Finance reported it that way, calling it an “about-face” by the automaker, while Apple Insider’s headline boasted that GM “cave[d]” on its decision to remove the interface from its gas-powered vehicles. Even The Verge’s own commenters were a bit flummoxed about what was going on. 自然地，这引发了一些困惑：通用汽车是否正在将 CarPlay 和 Android Auto “带回”其车辆？雅虎财经（Yahoo Finance）对此进行了报道，称这是该汽车制造商的“大转弯”；而 Apple Insider 的标题则宣称通用汽车在移除燃油车接口的决定上“屈服”了。甚至连 The Verge 自己的评论区读者也对现状感到困惑。
It’s certainly true that GM has not offered phone projection in any of its electric vehicles for the past three years. That means no CarPlay or Android Auto in the Chevy Equinox, Blazer, Bolt, and Silverado EVs; Cadillac Lyriq, Optiq, Vistiq, and Escalade IQ; or GMC Sierra and Hummer SUV and Truck EVs. 确实，在过去三年里，通用汽车在其任何电动汽车中都没有提供手机映射功能。这意味着雪佛兰 Equinox、Blazer、Bolt 和 Silverado 电动版；凯迪拉克 Lyriq、Optiq、Vistiq 和 Escalade IQ；以及 GMC Sierra 和悍马 SUV 及卡车电动版均不支持 CarPlay 或 Android Auto。
All of those vehicles have Google software products embedded in their systems, like Maps and Gemini. That’s because GM builds its operating system on top of Android Automotive, which is often called Google Automotive Services or GAS when bundled with the full suite of native apps. But if you’re hoping to plug in your phone, or connect wirelessly, and see the familiar app layout on the infotainment screen of a GM electric vehicle, you’ll be sorely disappointed. 所有这些车辆的系统中都内置了谷歌软件产品，如地图（Maps）和 Gemini。这是因为通用汽车的操作系统是基于 Android Automotive 构建的，当它与全套原生应用捆绑时，通常被称为谷歌汽车服务（GAS）。但如果你希望通过有线或无线方式连接手机，并在通用电动汽车的信息娱乐屏幕上看到熟悉的应用程序布局，你恐怕会大失所望。
The same can’t be said about GM’s many gas-powered trucks and SUVs. GM never disabled phone projection in its best-selling ICE models. Tens of thousands of owners of GM-branded vehicles regularly project their phones’ displays on their vehicles’ infotainment screens without any issue. And now CarPlay and Android Auto are both getting spiffy new picture-in-picture upgrades in the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra, a sign that perhaps GM is learning to co-exist with phone mirroring. 但通用汽车旗下的许多燃油卡车和 SUV 情况则不同。通用汽车从未在其最畅销的内燃机车型中禁用手机映射功能。成千上万的通用汽车车主一直在毫无障碍地将手机屏幕投射到车载信息娱乐系统上。现在，CarPlay 和 Android Auto 在雪佛兰 Silverado 和 GMC Sierra 上还获得了全新的画中画升级，这表明通用汽车或许正在学会与手机映射功能共存。
GM is partly responsible for the confusion. In an October 2025 appearance on Decoder, GM CEO Mary Barra defended the company’s decision to prohibit CarPlay in its electric vehicles and indicated that the policy would eventually extend to GM’s gasoline-powered lineup as well. 通用汽车对这种困惑负有部分责任。在 2025 年 10 月的一次《Decoder》节目访谈中，通用汽车首席执行官玛丽·巴拉（Mary Barra）为公司禁止在电动汽车中使用 CarPlay 的决定进行了辩护，并暗示该政策最终也将扩展到通用汽车的燃油车产品线。
Everyone freaked out for a second time. Removing phone projection in EVs was one thing, but many truck and SUV owners were understandably incensed about the prospect of losing the capability in their beloved GM-branded vehicles. But a few days later, GM seemed to walk back that statement, clarifying to a number of outlets that Apple CarPlay and Android Auto would remain available in its gas-powered vehicles “for the foreseeable future.” Last week’s announcement of a new software experience in the Silverado and Sierra trucks would seem to be included in that “foreseeable future.” 这引发了第二次恐慌。在电动汽车中移除手机映射是一回事，但许多卡车和 SUV 车主对于在他们钟爱的通用汽车上失去这一功能感到愤怒是可以理解的。然而几天后，通用汽车似乎收回了这一说法，向多家媒体澄清称，Apple CarPlay 和 Android Auto 在“可预见的未来”内将继续在燃油车上提供。上周宣布的 Silverado 和 Sierra 卡车新软件体验，似乎就包含在这个“可预见的未来”之中。
Allow me to add some further reporting here. For the Silverado/Sierra announcement, I spoke to Colin McCormick, group product manager for Google built-in, projection, and profiles at GM. Here’s what he had to say about how GM’s position on phone projection has evolved over the years: 请允许我补充一些后续报道。关于 Silverado/Sierra 的发布，我采访了通用汽车谷歌内置、映射及个人资料组的产品经理科林·麦考密克（Colin McCormick）。以下是他关于通用汽车在手机映射方面的立场如何随时间演变的看法：
“And so the way that I look at this is that we were one of the early adopters of CarPlay and Android Auto when it first came out. And we do have a small segment of EVs right now that don’t offer that, but there is a large majority of our vehicles that do offer that. And our big position on this is that it shouldn’t be two competing systems. So as we work together with Apple and Google to provide solutions that we think are best for the customer, this is what we’re representing in this new UI design. So I think we’re landing in a spot where … we don’t have a customer that has to decide, ‘Oh, I’m going to use projection,’ or, ‘Oh, I want to use the native system.’ That’s our sweet spot for us. And that’s where we want to live.” “我是这样看的：在 CarPlay 和 Android Auto 刚推出时，我们是最早采用它们的厂商之一。目前我们确实有一小部分电动汽车不提供该功能，但我们绝大多数车辆是支持的。我们对此的核心立场是，这不应该是两个相互竞争的系统。因此，当我们与苹果和谷歌合作，提供我们认为对客户最有利的解决方案时，这就是我们在新 UI 设计中所呈现的内容。我认为我们正在达成一种平衡……客户不必非得纠结于‘我要用手机映射’还是‘我要用原生系统’。这就是我们的最佳平衡点，也是我们想要达到的状态。”
GM most likely realizes that its position on CarPlay and Android Auto isn’t popular. People really like mirroring their phones! It’s clean, it’s familiar, and it’s (mostly) dependable. The same can’t be said for most modern cars’ native software. Even the ones that are really well designed, like Rivian and Tesla, still struggle with some core functions like profile logins and messages. And you can find plenty of owners of both brands that would give their firstborn child for the ability to mirror their phone. 通用汽车很可能意识到，其在 CarPlay 和 Android Auto 上的立场并不受欢迎。人们真的很喜欢手机映射！它界面简洁、操作熟悉，而且（大部分情况下）可靠。但大多数现代汽车的原生软件却并非如此。即使是像 Rivian 和 Tesla 这样设计精良的系统，在个人资料登录和消息处理等核心功能上仍存在不足。你可以找到许多这两个品牌的车主，他们甚至愿意为了拥有手机映射功能而付出一切。
CarPlay and Android Auto aren’t perfect. They have dependability problems and connectivity problems aplenty. But they are worlds better than the majority of the native operating systems in cars today — most of which are just trash. Yes, they’re getting better. And GM is not wrong in thinking it can offer a better experience. But people get testy when you take away their choices. CarPlay 和 Android Auto 并不完美。它们有很多可靠性和连接性方面的问题。但它们比当今大多数汽车的原生操作系统要好得多——后者中的大多数简直是垃圾。是的，原生系统正在进步，通用汽车认为自己能提供更好的体验并没有错。但当剥夺用户的选择权时，人们就会变得烦躁。
So GM is finding ways to coexist with CarPlay and Android Auto. It doesn’t want to lose more customers over it, which is why we’re getting this most recent solution that includes picture-in-picture phone projection. GM thinks this solves the “two competing systems” problem, as mentioned by McCormick. But what it really does is get it out of the corner it backed itself into over phone mirroring. 因此，通用汽车正在寻找与 CarPlay 和 Android Auto 共存的方法。它不想因此失去更多客户，这就是为什么我们看到了包含画中画手机映射功能的最新解决方案。通用汽车认为这解决了麦考密克所提到的“两个竞争系统”的问题。但实际上，这只是让通用汽车从自己在手机映射问题上陷入的死胡同中走了出来。