{"id":319308,"date":"2025-12-16T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319308\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:01:11","slug":"general-motors-confirms-upcoming-apple-wallet-car-key-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319308\/","title":{"rendered":"General Motors confirms upcoming Apple Wallet car key support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/General-Motors-confirms-Apple-Wallet-car-key-support-after-code-spotted.webp\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"General Motors confirms Apple Wallet car key support after code spotted (screengrab shown)\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/10\/14\/apple-wallet-car-key-support-for-gm-vehicles-spotted-in-new-backend-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Backend code<\/a> spotted a couple of months ago showed that General Motors was preparing to support <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/07\/02\/how-apple-new-car-key-feature-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Wallet digital car keys<\/a>, and the company has now confirmed those plans.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows the discovery yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/15\/toyota-car-key-support-coming-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">that Toyota was also<\/a> making its own preparations for car key support \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Apple told us a year ago that General Motors was one of <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/05\/car-keys-are-coming-to-the-wallet-app-for-13-new-vehicle-brands-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">13 additional car companies<\/a> that would support storing digital car keys in the Apple Wallet app.<\/p>\n<p>The feature allows you to store a digital copy of your car keys on your iPhone. Depending on the features a carmaker chooses to support, that permits one or more of <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/03\/18\/apple-wallet-car-key-supported-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">three types of usage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Passive entry: Approach your car with your device, it unlocks, start your car when inside, and walk away from your car with your device, it locks<\/p>\n<p>Proximity:\u00a0Lock, unlock, and start the car by holding your device close to the door handle or key reader<\/p>\n<p>Remotely:\u00a0You can use your device to remote lock and unlock your car, and use other features<\/p>\n<p>Although Apple listed GMC among the new brands that would be supporting the feature, no timelines were provided. However, backend code spotted in October of this year added <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/10\/14\/apple-wallet-car-key-support-for-gm-vehicles-spotted-in-new-backend-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">settings for General Motors vehicles<\/a>, suggesting that we may now be getting close to a launch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/15\/gm-plans-to-roll-out-iphone-car-keys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">MacRumors<\/a> reports that the company has now confirmed its plans but still not provided specific timings or identified the models that will be supported. In addition to the GMC brand itself, the company owns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gm.com\/our-brands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company yesterday slightly lessened the impact of its unpopular decision <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/10\/22\/gm-removing-carplay-from-more-cars-bizarrely-citing-steve-jobs-as-inspiration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">to ditch CarPlay<\/a> in its cars by offering <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/15\/gm-native-apple-music-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a new Apple Music app<\/a> within its own infotainment systems.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighted accessories<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764041470_477_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764041471_87_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4qP0DNG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1024348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nomad-banner2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"205\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Backend code spotted a couple of months ago showed that General Motors was preparing to support Apple Wallet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-319308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}