Thanks. That's really too bad. It means having to buy a new phone to use it. And ongoing wear and tear on connector.
Raymond, I cannot for the life of me, understand why you posted this. It seems abundantly clear the OP is looking for navigation, not simply a GPS, which is included on every Android or iPhone anyway. In addition, dismissing the OP's concern because you've never been lost (on an island), has no bearing on people who live in the heavily metropolitan California (where Navigation is essential to those traveling), and doesn't seem to be a boy scout trait.
Drive around Boston Massachusetts someday and you'll become a firm believer in GPS. None of the streets follow any sort of grid pattern thus you get very disoriented so GPS is a must when you go anywhere new. Not the cas in the large city closest to me where everything is a square block so when you miss a turn, you can easily double back with a series of left or right turns.
Raymond is just rubbing it in about the paradise of living in Puerto Rico. I know a retired guy who also moved there and migrates from Michigan to IL to Puerto Rico depending on the weather. I remember the days before smartphones. When I lived in Chicagoland, I had an inch and a half thick book in the back seat that showed every detailed street over 4 counties. We certainly have come a long way. As a volt owner even with built in nav (came with the car, I wouldn't have ordered it this way) I still prefer to use Apple Maps displayed on the smartphone and audio piped via Bluetooth over thrnGM supplied maps. But if CarPlay was an option to display maps on the dash, I'd probably be fine with the USB cable. I like to top off the phone battery on my car rides anyway.
I used to think that way. But now that my wife/navigator has passed away I find that it's too much stress to be trying to find yourself on a paper map and read the street names at the same time as trying to look for street signs through the windshield AND all the while trying to drive safely. A friend lent me his GPS while I was driving in his unfamiliar city and I was an instant convert. Turn-by-turn voice directions let me drive in places I've never been before as if I know them like the back of my hand. I'll never go back to paper navigation again (although I still use it for trip planning).
I've never had issues with my connector and I plug in my iPhone almost daily to my volt. The phone will keep charging even if you use gps, it won't run out of battery while plugged in. There's also the wifi charging as an option btw, works on some androids.
Wireless charging is standard on the Premier trim and not available on the LT...It's incredible cheap and easy to install a QI charger to any car, though...
Over time that lint will become impacted crud at the end of the lightning connector, and when it builds up enough to cause the connector to not go all the way in, it will cause the connection to not be reliable. I'm sure many iPhone users ended up upgrading phones rather than carefully taking a toothpick to the connector and picking out the crud. This reminds me of the days when you had to take a fingernail to the mouse ball wheels in the days of non-optical mice.
First, this made me laugh. That was the first place I took my Bolt EV!
Second, I am running into similar issues with the Bolt EV and Android Auto. Because my work requires my phone to password lock/protect, I have to actually enter a password and unlock my phone to activate Android Auto on occasion. If I'm driving, that means I actually need to pull over. And if the data connection is lost in anyway, it sometimes takes several tries to reconnect the phone to the display with Android Auto.
