General Motors introduced the refreshed Chevy Tahoe and Chevy Suburban for the 2025 model year, showing off an updated exterior, new technology features, and even a new optional diesel engine. Among the highlights for the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and 2025 Suburban was something called the Connected Camera system, which promised to provide owners with the ability to remotely monitor both the interior and exterior of their vehicles through a fully integrated network of cameras. Now, however, as of January of 2025, this feature is still nowhere to be found.
When GM first revealed the Connected Camera system, it was marketed as a subscription-based service that would allow users to view live and recorded footage from various cameras placed around the vehicle. The system was expected to offer a 360-degree exterior view, interior monitoring, automatic crash recording, security recording, and a dash cam functionality that would save footage to the cloud. The feature was designed to work through the myChevrolet mobile app, giving owners remote access to their vehicle’s surroundings and security footage.
Of course, GM did mention during the 2025-model-year debut that some vehicle features may not be available at vehicle launch, and instead could be added later through an over-the-air software update. However, nearly two months after the initial units of the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and 2025 Chevy Suburban began arriving at dealerships in December of 2024, there has been no sign of the promised Connected Camera feature.
GM Authority has reached out to General Motors twice in the hopes of gaining some clarity on the situation, including once in October of 2024, and again in January of 2025. So far, we have yet to receive a response.
GM Authority has covered the Connected Camera story as far back as 2021, and expected the system be a key addition to the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and Suburban. Both models were officially unveiled in November of 2023. Now, with no updates on when, or if, the system will become available, it remains unclear whether GM has quietly scrapped it altogether or if it will eventually be activated through a future software update.
As a reminder, the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and 2025 Chevy Suburban offer three engine options, including the naturally aspirated 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine, rated at 355 horsepower and 383 pound-feet of torque; the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, rated at 420 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque; and the new-for-2025 3.0L I6 LZ0 turbodiesel Duramax, rated at 305 horsepower and 495 pound-feet of torque. Both models continue to be built on GM’s T1 platform and are manufactured at the GM Arlington Assembly plant in Texas.
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I would have liked a “Connected Camera” option on my Corvette.
I just purchased a 25 Tahoe High Country and thought the Connected Camera feature was ready to go as part of the App. I’m very pissed that this feature was marketed and has now been delayed or abandoned. Please keep on GM and push them to find out where they are on this feature as the feature must have been running in beta form to make that promotional video. This feature saves all of us from purchasing a $1000 dash camera, and installing it front and rear. Please update us ASAP!
I am replacing my Tesla with a Tahoe. I use this feature in my Tesla all the time and it was one of the main reasons I have been waiting for the 2025 Tahoe (the other 2 are the new diesel and the new interior).
Someone needs to hold GM’s feet to the fire.
It is complete BS that you advertise something and then very, very quietly don’t deliver it.
Most people see an advertisement, check a box in their mind that this feature is included and then purchase the vehicle without realizing that they were screwed.
I think GM is a hardware company that is realzing that the software game is a lot harder that it appears.
Whoever is running that division needs to be replaced with a software guy.
You still cannot reference 2025 Brochures or Specs on either the GMC or Chevrolet websites for these large SUVs. The website is behind or information doesn’t exist. Very poor management.
Personally, I give a Telsa the ole middle finger 🖕 of brotherly love when I walk by one since the vehicle has built in cameras to record its surroundings. Do not like Big Brother recording my every move. Am an old man with a great body pain and itching in a certain area from a war wound. Do not need some electrical vehicle recording me.