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Features are subject to change. For further
information on how to set up Android Auto
and Apple CarPlay in the vehicle, see
my.buick.com.
Android Auto is provided by Google and is
subject to Google’s terms and privacy policy.
Apple CarPlay is provided by Apple and is
subject to Apple’s terms and privacy policy.
Data plan rates apply. For Android Auto
support see https://support.google.com/
androidauto. For Apple CarPlay support see
www.apple.com/ios/carplay/. Apple or
Google may change or suspend availability
at any time. Android Auto, Android, Google,
Google Play, and other marks are
trademarks of Google Inc.; Apple CarPlay is a
trademark of Apple Inc.
Settings
Settings (8 Inch Screen)
The Settings Menu allows adjustment of
different vehicle and radio features. The
menu may contain the following:
Time and Date
To set the time or date:1. Select Settings from the Home Page, then select Time and Date. 2. Select the desired function.
To set the time or date, touch
«orªto
change the hour, minutes, AM, PM, day,
month, or year.
To change the 12-24 Hr setting, touch
12-24 Hr.
To turn Auto Set on and off, touch Auto Set.
If auto timing is set, the time displayed on
the clock may not update immediately when
driving into a new time zone.
Auto set requires an active OnStar or
connected service plan.
Press
SBACK on the center stack to go to
the last menu and save the changes or
{
to return to the Home Page.
Language
This will set the display language in the
radio, instrument cluster, and voice
recognition. Touch Language and select the
appropriate language. Press
SBACK on the
center stack or touch the Back icon on the
infotainment display to go back to the
previous menu.
Valet Mode
If equipped, this will lock the infotainment
system and steering wheel controls. It may
also limit top speed, power, and access to
vehicle storage locations (if equipped).
To enable valet mode:
1. Enter a four-digit code on the keypad.
2. Touch Enter to go to the confirmation screen.
3. Re-enter the four-digit code.
Touch Lock or Unlock to lock or unlock the
system. Press
SBACK on the center stack
or touch the Back icon on the infotainment
display to go back to the previous menu.
Radio
Touch to display the Radio Menu and the
following may display:
.Manage Favorites: Touch to highlight a
favorite to edit. Touch Rename to rename
the favorite or Delete to delete it. Touch
and hold the station to drag it to a new
location. Touch Done to go back to the
previous menu.
.Number of Favorites Shown: Touch to set
the number of favorites to display. Select
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appropriate Wi-Fi network, and follow the
on-screen prompts. Download speeds
may vary.
On most mobile devices, activation of the
Wi-Fi hotspot is in the Settings menu under
Mobile Network Sharing, Personal Hotspot,
Mobile Hotspot, or similar.
Availability of Over-the-Air software updates
varies by vehicle and country. Features are
subject to change. For more information on
this feature, see my.buick.com/learn.
English and Metric Unit Conversion
To change the display units between English
and metric units, seeInstrument Cluster
0 76.
Trademarks and License
Agreements
FCC Information
See Radio Frequency Statement 0290.
"Made for iPod," and "Made for iPhone,"
mean that an electronic accessory has been
designed to connect specifically to iPod or
iPhone, respectively, and has been certified
by the developer to meet Apple
performance standards. Apple is not
responsible for the operation of this device
or its compliance with safety and regulatory
standards. Please note that the use of this
accessory with iPod or iPhone may affect
wireless performance. iPhone, iPod, iPod
classic, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and iPod
touch are trademarks of Apple Inc.,
registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Fees and Taxes: Subscription fee, taxes, one
time activation fee, and other fees may
apply. Subscription fee is consumer only. All
fees and programming subject to change.
Subscriptions subject to Customer
Agreement available at www.siriusxm.com.
SiriusX service only available in the
48 contiguous United States and Canada.
In Canada: Some deterioration of service
may occur in extreme northern latitudes.
This is beyond the control of SiriusXM
Satellite Radio.
Explicit Language Notice: Channels with
frequent explicit language are indicated with
an “XL” preceding the channel name.
Channel blocking is available for SiriusXM
Satellite Radio receivers by notifying
SiriusXM:
.USA Customers —See www.siriusxm.com
or call 1-888-601–6296.
.Canadian Customers —See
www.siriusxm.ca or call 1-877-438-9677.
It is prohibited to copy, decompile,
disassemble, reverse engineer, hack,
manipulate, or otherwise make available any
technology or software incorporated in
receivers compatible with the SiriusXM
®
Satellite Radio System or that support the
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of its content. Furthermore, the AMBER voice
compression software included in this
product is protected by intellectual property
rights including patent rights, copyrights,
and trade secrets of Digital Voice
Systems, Inc.
General Requirements:1. A License Agreement from SiriusXM is required for any product that
incorporates SiriusXM Technology and/or
for use of any of the SiriusXM marks to
be manufactured, distributed,
or marketed in the SiriusXM
Service Area.
2. For products to be distributed, marketed, and/or sold in Canada, a separate
agreement is required with Canadian
Satellite Radio Inc. (operating as SiriusXM
Canada).
Bose
Bose, AudioPilot and Bose Centerpoint
surround are registered trademarks of Bose
Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
DTS
Manufactured under license under U.S.Patent
Nos: 5,956,674; 5,974,380; 6,487,535 & other
U.S. and worldwide patents issued &
pending. For DTS patents, see http://patents.dts.com.
Manufactured under license from DTS
Licensing Limited. DTS, the Symbol, & DTS,
and the Symbol together are registered
trademarks, and DTS 2.0 Channel is a
trademark of DTS, Inc. ©DTS, Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
Dolby
Manufactured under license from Dolby
Laboratories. Dolby and the double-D symbol
are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
Java
Java is a registered trademark of Oracle
and/or its affiliates.
Cinavia
Cinavia Notice: This product uses Cinavia
technology to limit the use of unauthorized
copies of some commercially-produced film
and videos and their soundtracks. When a
prohibited use of an unauthorized copy is
detected, a message will be displayed or
copying will be interrupted.
More information about Cinavia technology
is provided at the Cinavia Online Consumer
Information Center at http://
www.cinavia.com. To request additional
information about Cinavia by mail, send a
postcard with your mailing address to:
Cinavia Consumer Information Center, P.O.
Box 86851, San Diego, CA, 92138, USA.
This product incorporates proprietary
technology under license from Verance
Corporation and is protected by U.S. Patent
7,369,677 and other U.S. and worldwide
patents issued and pending as well as
copyright and trade secret protection for
certain aspects of such technology. Cinavia is
a trademark of Verance Corporation.
Copyright 2004-2015 Verance Corporation. All
rights reserved by Verance. Reverse
engineering or disassembly is prohibited.
RMVB
Portions of this software are included under
license from RealNetworks, Inc. Copyright
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Bluetooth
The Bluetooth word mark and logos are
owned by the Bluetooth
®SIG, Inc. and any
use of such marks by General Motors is
under license. Other trademarks and trade
names are those of their respective owners.
Schedule I: Gracenote EULA
Music recognition technology and related
data are provided by Gracenote. Gracenote
is the industry standard in music recognition
technology and related content delivery. For
more information visit www.gracenote.com.
Music-related data from Gracenote, Inc.,
copyright © 2000 to present Gracenote.
Gracenote Software, copyright © 2000 to
present Gracenote. One or more patents
owned by Gracenote may apply to this
product and service. See the Gracenote
website for a non-exhaustive list of
applicable Gracenote patents. Gracenote,
CDDB, MusicID, MediaVOCS, the Gracenote logo and logotype, and the "Powered by
Gracenote" logo are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Gracenote in
the United States and/or other countries.
Gracenote Terms of Use
This application or device contains software
from Gracenote, Inc. of Emeryville, California
("Gracenote"). The software from Gracenote
(the "Gracenote Software") enables this
application to do disc or file identification
and obtain music-related information,
including name, artist, track, and title
information ("Gracenote Data") from online
servers or embedded databases (collectively,
"Gracenote Servers") and to perform other
functions. You may use Gracenote Data only
by means of the intended End-User
functions of this application or device.
This application or device may contain
content belonging to Gracenote’s providers.
If so, all of the restrictions set forth herein
with respect to Gracenote Data shall also
apply to such content and such content
providers shall be entitled to all of the
benefits and protections set forth herein
that are available to Gracenote.
You agree that you will use Gracenote Data,
the Gracenote Software, and Gracenote
Servers for your own personalnon-commercial use only. You agree not to
assign, copy, transfer or transmit the
Gracenote Software or any Gracenote Data
to any third party. YOU AGREE NOT TO USE
OR EXPLOIT GRACENOTE DATA, THE
GRACENOTE SOFTWARE, OR GRACENOTE
SERVERS, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED
HEREIN.
You agree that your non-exclusive license to
use the Gracenote Data, the Gracenote
Software, and Gracenote Servers will
terminate if you violate these restrictions.
If your license terminates, you agree to
cease any and all use of the Gracenote Data,
the Gracenote Software, and Gracenote
Servers. Gracenote reserves all rights in
Gracenote Data, the Gracenote Software,
and the Gracenote Servers, including all
ownership rights. Under no circumstances
will Gracenote become liable for any
payment to you for any information that
you provide. You agree that Gracenote may
enforce its rights under this Agreement
against you directly in its own name.
The Gracenote service uses a unique
identifier to track queries for statistical
purposes. The purpose of a randomly
assigned numeric identifier is to allow the
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knowing anything about who you are. For
more information, see the web page for the
Gracenote Privacy Policy for the Gracenote
service.
The Gracenote Software and each item of
Gracenote Data are licensed to you "AS IS."
Gracenote makes no representations or
warranties, express or implied, regarding the
accuracy of any Gracenote Data. Gracenote
reserves the right to delete data from the
Gracenote Servers or to change data
categories for any cause that Gracenote
deems sufficient. No warranty is made that
the Gracenote Software or Gracenote Servers
are error-free or that functioning of
Gracenote Software or Gracenote Servers
will be uninterrupted. Gracenote is not
obligated to provide you with new enhanced
or additional data types or categories that
Gracenote may provide in the future and is
free to discontinue its services at any time.
GRACENOTE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. GRACENOTE DOES NOT
WARRANT THE RESULTS THAT WILL BE
OBTAINED BY YOUR USE OF THE GRACENOTESOFTWARE OR ANY GRACENOTE SERVER. IN
NO CASE WILL GRACENOTE BE LIABLE FOR
ANY CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR
LOST REVENUES.
© 2015. Gracenote, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Unicode
Copyright © 1991-2015 Unicode, Inc. All rights
reserved. Distributed under the Terms of Use
in http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html.
Free Type Project
Portions of this software are copyright ©
2015 The FreeType Project (http://
www.freetype.org). All rights reserved.
Open Source SW
Further information concerning the OSS
licenses is shown in the infotainment
display.
QNX
Portions of this software are copyright ©
2008-2015, QNX Software Systems. All rights
reserved.
Part C
–EULA
Copyright 2015, Software Systems GmbH &
Co. KG. All Rights Reserved. The product you have purchased ("Product")
contains Software (Runtime Configuration
No. 505962; "Software") which is distributed
by or on behalf of the Product manufacturer
"Manufacturer") under license from Software
Systems Co. ("QSSC"). You may only use the
Software in the Product and in compliance
with the license terms below.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this
License, QSSC hereby grants you a limited,
non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use
the Software in the Product for the purpose
intended by the Manufacturer. If permitted
by the Manufacturer, or by applicable law,
you may make one backup copy of the
Software as part of the Product software.
QSSC and its licensors reserve all license+C31
rights not expressly granted herein, and
retain all right, title and interest in and to
all copies of the Software, including all
intellectual property rights therein. Unless
required by applicable law you may not
reproduce, distribute or transfer,
or de-compile, disassemble or otherwise
attempt to unbundle, reverse engineer,
modify or create derivative works of, the
Software. You agree: (1) not to remove,
cover or alter any proprietary notices, labels
or marks in or on the Software, and to
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Android Auto
Touch the Android Auto icon to activate
Android Auto if equipped, after a supported
device is connected. SeeApple CarPlay and
Android Auto 0153.
OnStar Services
If equipped, touch the OnStar icon to display
the OnStar Services and Account pages.
Climate
If equipped, touch the Climate icon to
display the Climate main page.
Camera
If equipped, touch the Camera icon to access
the camera application.
SiriusXM
If equipped, touch the SiriusXM icon to
display the SiriusXM radio service.
Shortcut Tray
The shortcut tray is near the bottom of the
display. It shows up to four applications.
Infotainment Display Features
Infotainment display features show on the
display when available. When a feature is
unavailable, it may gray out. When a
feature is touched, it may highlight.
Infotainment Gestures
Use the following finger gestures to control
the infotainment system.
Touch/Tap
Touch/Tap is used to select an icon or
option, activate an application, or change
the location inside a map. Touch and Hold
Touch and hold can be used to start another
gesture, or to move or delete an application.
Drag
Drag is used to move applications on the
Home Page, or to pan the map. To drag the
item, it must be held and moved along the
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reduce interference, some static can occur,
especially around tall buildings or hills,
causing the sound to fade in and out.
AM
The range for most AM stations is greater
than for FM, especially at night. The longer
range can cause station frequencies to
interfere with each other. Static can also
occur when things like storms and power
lines interfere with radio reception. When
this happens, try reducing the treble on the
radio.
SiriusXM Satellite Radio Service
If equipped, SiriusXM Satellite Radio Service
provides digital radio reception. Tall
buildings or hills can interfere with satellite
radio signals, causing the sound to fade in
and out. In addition, traveling or standing
under heavy foliage, bridges, garages,
or tunnels may cause loss of the SiriusXM
signal for a period of time. Some cellular
services may interfere with SXM reception
causing loss of signal.
Mobile Device Usage
Mobile device usage, such as making or
receiving calls, charging, or just having the
mobile device on may cause static
interference in the radio. Unplug the mobile
device or turn it off if this happens.
Multi-Band Antenna
The roof antenna is for AM, FM, SiriusXM,
OnStar, and GPS (Global Positioning System),
if equipped. Keep clear of obstructions for
clear reception. If the vehicle has a sunroof,
and it is open, reception can also be
affected.
Audio Players
Avoiding Untrusted Media Devices
When using media devices such as USB
devices, and mobile devices, consider the
source. Untrusted media devices could
contain files that affect system operation or
performance. Avoid use if the content or
origin cannot be trusted.
USB Port (7 Inch Screen)
Audio stored on a USB device may be
listened to.This vehicle is equipped with two USB ports
in the center console. These ports are for
data and charging. There may also be two
USB ports for charging only at the rear of
the center console.
Caution
To avoid vehicle damage, unplug all
accessories and disconnect all accessory
cables from the vehicle when not in use.
Accessory cables left plugged into the
vehicle, unconnected to a device, could be
damaged or cause an electrical short if
the unconnected end comes in contact
with liquids or another power source such
as the accessory power outlet.
Playing from a USB
A USB mass storage device can be connected
to the USB port.
Audio extensions supported by the USB are:
.MP3
.AAC
.OGG
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Browse functionality will be provided where
supported by the Bluetooth device. This
media content will not be part of the
MyMedia source mode.
Some smartphones support sending
Bluetooth music information to display on
the radio. When the radio receives this
information, it will check to see if any is
available and display it. For more
information about supported Bluetooth
features, see my.buick.com/learn.
OnStar System
OnStar System (7 Inch Screen)
4G LTE
If equipped with 4G LTE, up to seven
devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and
laptops, can be connected to high-speed
Internet through the vehicle’s built-in Wi-Fi
hotspot.
Call 1-888-4ONSTAR (1-888-466-7827) to
connect to an OnStar Advisor for assistance.
See www.onstar.com for vehicle availability,
details, and system limitations. Service and
connectivity may vary by make, model,
year, carrier, availability, and conditions. 4G
LTE service is available in select markets. 4GLTE performance is based on industry
averages and vehicle systems design. Some
services require a data plan.
The OnStar App
If equipped, the infotainment system has
OnStar controls in the embedded OnStar app
on the Home Page. Most OnStar functions
that can be performed with the buttons can
be done using the app. To open the app,
touch the OnStar icon on the Home Page.
App updates require a corresponding service
plan. Features vary by region and model.
Features are subject to change. For more
information, see my.buick.com/learn or
press
Q.
Services
The Services tab displays the default view
for the app. Use this page to launch the
available OnStar services. Touch a service to
open its display. Touch Wi-Fi to launch the
connections manager. Turn-by-Turn and
Advisor Call are the other tiled options. Account
The Account tab displays a snapshot of the
account linked with the vehicle. If there is
no such account, this tab will show all
values as
——. The call advisor call icon will
be active even if there is no active account.
Advisor Call
Selecting Advisor Call is the same as
pressing
Qor calling 1-888-4ONSTAR
(1-888-466-7827). The X option in the upper
right corner of the screen does not end the
call, but returns to the previous screen.
Turn-by-Turn Directions
With a connected plan, an OnStar Advisor
can download a destination to the vehicle or
its embedded navigation system,
if equipped. Select Turn-by-Turn Directions
from the Services tab of the OnStar app to
call an Advisor or select a recent or favorite
destination. Touch the navigation icons to
select home, address or place. A destination
transfer from OnStar will show the detail
view of the destination when it is
transferred from OnStar to the Navigation
application. See www.onstar.com for a
coverage map. Services vary by model. Map
coverage is available in the United States,
Puerto Rico, and Canada.