How Do I Use OnStar?

Print your OnStar Owner's Guide

Download and print owner's guides for the current three-button system and earlier OnStar systems.

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Not sure which guide is right for you?

Follow these steps to identify your system and determine which guide to use:

Three-button system

1. Get into your vehicle and push the phone or white-dot button.
2. When the system says "Ready," you say "Dial."
   Note: If your system is active but you don't hear a response when you push the phone or white-dot button, your equipment is not enabled for Hands-Free Calling.
3. Remember the system response so you can download the correct guide:
   • If the system responds: "Number please."
     Download your OnStar Owner's Guide
   • If the system responds: "Phone number to dial please."
     Download your OnStar Owner's Guide
   • If the system responds: "Please say the entire phone number to dial."
     Download your OnStar Owner's Guide

Handset system

If your vehicle is equipped with an OnStar handset system,
Download your OnStar Owner's Guide.

For additional information, or if you own an earlier vehicle model, just choose the relevant download. 1999 and newer OnStar-equipped vehicles: Download PDF
1996-1999 OnStar-equipped vehicles: Download PDF
Handset system: Download PDF

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Hands-Free Calling Demonstrations

To find out which type of voice dialing you'll need to use, get into your vehicle and push the phone or white-dot button. When the system says "Ready," say "Dial."

• If the system responds: "Number please," use Discrete-Digit Dialing. Discrete-digit dialing means that the system recognizes one number at a time. So, to dial a number, you say "one" and the system says "one"; you say "two" and the system says "two," and so on.
• If the system responds: "Phone number to dial please," use Continuous-Digit Dialing. Continuous-digit dialing means that you can say the number all at once with no pauses; for example, "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0."
  Download Quick Reference Card
• If the system responds "Please say the entire phone number to dial," use Continuous-Digit Dialing.
  Download Quick Reference Card