Chevrolet has released its myChevrolet app for the Apple Watch, enabling owners to remote start and stop their vehicle, lock and unlock the doors, activate and cancel the horn and lights, locate their vehicle and receive walking directions to where it’s parked — all from their wrist.
The myChevrolet app for Apple Watch joins the already-existing myChevrolet app for Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
“The use of the myChevrolet app by our owners continues to grow across the entire vehicle lineup, so expanding its availability to Apple Watch was a natural next step and allows us to offer another easy way to manage key vehicle functions remotely,” said Paul Edwards, Chevrolet U.S. vice president of Marketing. “Whether you want to cool down your Malibu on a hot summer day or locate it after attending a crowded baseball game, Chevrolet owners can now make that choice from their iPhone or Apple Watch.”
The myChevrolet app for Apple Watch is now available in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It is available in English, Spanish and French. All new Chevrolet retail models come with the OnStar Basic Plan, which is free for five years and features remote vehicle access (like door lock/unlock, vehicle start/stop, and remote horn/lights) along with the AtYourService marketplace — accessed via the myChevrolet mobile app.
myChevrolet for Apple Watch joins the recently-released myCadillac app for Apple Watch, and we expect the myBuick and myGMC apps to gain Apple Watch versions shortly.
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Is there any real difference with an individual being able to start their car with an Apple watch or a Key-fob; now, it would be interesting if you could get your Chevy Bolt to move using your finger on the display of the Apple watch.
That can be done if the Chevy Bolt has solenoids to unlock the parking brake, “shift” into “D”, and allow remote steering. Someday it will be done.
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Yes there is a difference of doing these things with the key fob vs. with your phone or watch. You need to be in range of the car For the keyfob to work. You don’t need to be in range of the car for the phone or watch app to work.
There are obvious real-world use-case scenarios here…
Yes, but at the end of the day you’re still talking about STARTING YOUR CAR. It’s cool, and a nice step, but I’m not sure it will be the monumental help that a keyfob that simply unlocks your doors has been (a lot of people probably don’t remember what a pain it was to unlock your car with a key),. I’ll personally take a simple door-mounted keypad like Ford’s been using for decades–that’s real convenience a far as I’m concerned. This probably tracks your movements and sends it to GM and who knows who else for “internal research.”
Just sayin’.
You’re not wrong, though I think you are probably coming from a perspective of living in a fair weather environment. For us up north the ability to start your car when you’re ten minutes away from it in a snowstorm is a VERY convenient feature. As far as the tracking thing, I think it’s fair to say that we are far past the point of having any privacy left. Every single app, website, ISP and company you make transactions with are tracking your every move and collecting your data. I think this is a cool move, and I know quite a few chevy owners including myself (2017 Chevy Cruze) are pretty happy to use our phones. Cheers!
I’m not in a cold climate, but a rather hot one. And yeah, on those rare days I get to drive my wife’s SUV, I sometimes do enjoy remote start. I’m not against the technology, and do think it’s a neat step, but I guess I personally just don’t think it’s THAT useful, at least around here. Cheers back at you!
Reggie,
You’re missing the usability and convenience factors.
What if you are in a hurry, park your car at the airport, get on the plane, and then realize you forgot to lock your doors? Key fob won’t do you much good then and neither will a door mounted keypad, but the myBrand apps will… allowing you to lock them right from your phone or your wrist no matter the distance from your vehicle.
On the flip side, starting your car remotely when landing after it has been sitting for a week at the airport parking lot and getting snowed on is highly convenient to melt away the snow/ice before you get to the car, as it uses the automatic climate control systems to warmup the cabin and defrost the windows. A remote start cycle runs for 10 minutes, so you can start it from your phone or from your wrist when getting off the plane, let it do its thing in preparing your vehicle, and it’s ready when you get to it. By comparison, starting it from the keyfob will give you only a minute (at best) of defrost and cabin heating, since you have to be in the proximity of the vehicle to start it with the keyfob.
And don’t even get me started on how useful it is to locate your car on the app’s map feature, especially after a (perhaps crazy) night out or after leaving it at the airport for a week and forgetting which lot you parked in.
Those are just some examples of how useful the apps are and how much more convenient they are over a key fob operation.
I do have to say that the keypad you mention (such as on fords) has zero relevance today since most cars have keyless entry. The keypad was a 90s technology that was the precursor to keyless entry and start.
Alex, you had me until crazy night out ,lol. Seriously, those are some good points.
But the keypads, which I have enjoyed in the past, are a godsend as far as I’m concerned. Hot out? Cold or whatever? Want to leave your car running (with your kid in his car seat) and run into the store? Leave your keys in it, lock the doors, and when you want to get back in you just press a few buttons. Maybe you want to go for a hike or a dip in the ocean and don’t want to take your keys along… or maybe you shut your door and want to quickly lock your doors… all you have to do is press buttons.
I think it’s quite nice and hope to have it again on my next Ford if it’s an option. The technology, primitive as it might be to some, can coexist with today’s apps and lives on for a very good reason, IMO.
Pretty soon we are all going to be able to never have to leave our houses as the smart phone will do literally everything and anything for us including ordering whatever we want, delivering it etc. It will also go to the bathroom for us, brush our teeth, feed us, breath for us and think for us. We can eliminate stores, cars, roads, bridges, thruways and everything around us. Yes we will become a bunch of fat bloated mutants that never have to do anything again. What a future!
Some of us already are fat bloated mutants, KS. 🙂
I own a SUV and the idea of controlling the car through Apple Watch sounds very good so I installed the myChevrolet app but as it loads it automatically freeze and close itself how do I fix it any solution?
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I wish I had known that I could use the app on my watch as well as my phone…I accidently locked the keys that were in my purse, in the car while on a trip and had to call a locksmith to open the door. I had the My Chevrolet app, on my phone which was also in the car, and never knew the app was also available for m watch, which I had on at the time!!! Oh, what worry and time it would have saved if I had only paid attention to what was available!!!