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GM updates its trucks’ native software to coexist with CarPlay
Confirmed
In Short: General Motors is enhancing the user interface in its bestselling trucks to include picture-in-picture phone projection, aiming to reduce dangerous distractions.
General Motors is updating the software experience in its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, introducing a new user interface that includes picture-in-picture phone projection for the first time. This feature is designed to reduce the amount of dangerous tapping and swiping required to access essential controls while driving.
In a related development, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) launched a new Aadhaar Face Authentication Software Development Kit (SDK) and a dedicated sandbox, allowing financial-sector entities to integrate Aadhaar-based face authentication directly into their mobile applications. The SDK brings UIDAI’s face authentication capability directly into native Android and iOS applications.
What's confirmed
- The new SDK brings UIDAI’s face authentication capability directly into native Android and iOS applications.
What's still developing
- It’s also giving Apple CarPlay and Android Auto spiffy new picture-in-picture displays — which is notable given GM’s previously stated hostility to phone mirroring in its electric vehicles.
- And they’ll be seeing it all on 60-plus inches of screen real estate — the combined size of instrument cluster, central display, and passenger screen in some of its trucks — that’s designed to enhance but not overwhelm the driving experience.
- The Aadhaar Face Authentication Software Development Kit (SDK) and Sandbox were launched at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, according to a Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology PIB release.
- Powered by the next generation of Apple Intelligence, the upgraded assistant is rolling out as part of Apple’s major software release across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27.
- By indexing information across native apps like Messages, Mail, Photos, and Notes, as well as third-party apps integrated with Spotlight, Siri AI can fetch specific details from past conversations or files.