These are the car manufacturers that don’t support Apple CarPlay – Jalopnik

Apple CarPlay software is built into many cars, allowing the driver to connect their phone to the infotainment system and project its interface. In seconds you can access many of your phone’s apps (including navigation, podcasts and music players) without having to use the car’s built-in system, log into additional accounts or pay an extra monthly fee for a data connection. People love it and consider it absolutely essential when purchasing a new vehicle.

Despite how beloved it is, the brands Tesla, Rivian and General Motors do not offer Apple CarPlay on their vehicles. This could be for a number of reasons, including claims that these brands provide a better infotainment experience or are better stewards of your personal data than Apple. Some even suggest it’s a profit-driven decision, forcing people to pay the automaker a data fee to use apps like Spotify or Apple Music in their vehicles.

Tesla has never offered Apple CarPlay in its vehicles. For the most part, that hasn’t been a problem, as many of Tesla’s integrated solutions work better than what an iPhone does, and can potentially provide better functionality.

Tesla’s infotainment system can communicate directly with the company’s network of Supercharging stations. This way, every car knows where the stations are, whether they are occupied and even which charging points are not operational. This makes Tesla’s dynamic route planning one of the best solutions in the industry, and it’s something that can’t be easily replicated in an iPhone app via CarPlay.

With frequent over-the-air updates that continually refresh the user experience and add support for some streaming music services, many Tesla owners may not feel like they’re missing out because they don’t have Apple CarPlay. That said, there are companies selling separate screens for Tesla vehicles and adding Apple CarPlay support. It may not be official, but its existence does show that there is still strong demand for CarPlay among owners.

Besides Tesla, Rivian is the other major manufacturer that has shied away from offering CarPlay to its customers. The reasoning is similar to Tesla’s, as Rivian believes it can provide a more integrated experience than with an app.

Built-in systems know the status of the entire vehicle. They track battery charge, outside temperature and even route topography set in navigation to provide the best range predictions. When it’s time to automatically drive to a charging station, on-board systems can initiate battery preconditioning, which changes the temperature while driving so drivers can experience maximum charging speed while they wait.

Rivian has its own charging network, so it can get accurate real-time information about charging stations without having to rely on a third-party provider. On the other hand, its network is much smaller than Tesla’s, and it only recently added support for popular services. Rivian got Google Maps integration in 2025, but the company still has no plans to ever offer Apple CarPlay support.

General Motors is interesting because it’s a company that currently still sells cars with Apple CarPlay built in. But it is following the trends of Tesla and Rivian in refusing to offer this on the new electric cars it launches, including the limited-edition Chevrolet Bolt. In fact, it will eventually stop selling new cars altogether. This would mark the first time that a company offered support for the technology on its vehicles, only to later remove it.

GM believes it can offer a better performing and more integrated solution than Apple CarPlay. It also claims that it will protect your data much better than Apple would. This comes alongside news of the company working on a new unified platform to reduce the number of ECUs in its vehicles while offering more functionality, including AI in vehicles (such as Google’s Gemini).

GM’s abandonment of the technology has caused a stir online, with some people saying they won’t buy another GM product unless it supports Apple CarPlay. That said, given that these infotainment systems can be easily updated over the air, it probably wouldn’t be too difficult to add CarPlay back if enough customers push for it.

Every other automaker that sells cars in the United States offers Apple CarPlay on many or all of their models. Most car manufacturers worldwide offer it on their vehicles. Even many Chinese brands that focus on their own software still offered customers the option to use CarPlay, although some declined to add it even as sales suffered.

It’s unlikely that Rivian will ever offer CarPlay in its vehicles, as its CEO recently reiterated that the company has no plans to include the functionality. On the other hand, Tesla may be in a different boat as sales around the world fall. There are even rumors that the brand’s desperation for sales will lead to the addition of Apple CarPlay, although only time will tell if that turns out to be true.

If GM eventually removes CarPlay from all its new vehicles, it could convince other automakers to follow suit. Even if these deletions are more about protecting customer data, it does open up a new recurring revenue stream for the automaker — and that kind of revenue would be hard for other brands to ignore.