CarPlay observations and questions

[mattbostonmache]

I've had my car since Dec. Wireless CarPlay has gotten much better (I think it was the 2.8.1 update or the overheating contractor OTA that made it better). Until the July OTAs, wireless CarPlay was only working ~30% of the time. Now I'd say it works ~80% of the time.

Observation 1: when wireless CarPlay doesn't properly connect, my best course of action seems to be to turn the car off, open the door, wait 10 sec, and turn the car back on. Key observation being that when I turn the car off and open the door, in the two seconds that the display is shutting down, the CarPlay screen flashes up briefly (e.g. my active CarPlay app). So I think despite the tablet showing that CarPlay isn't connected, it is in fact connected (and my phone always thinks CarPlay is connected — it won't let me turn off wifi because it thinks CarPlay is connected and Waze on my iPhone is in the limited mode I see when CarPlay is connected.

I've never had much luck in getting wired CarPlay to work. It would attempt to connect when I wasting a USB-A outlet, but since I've switched cables and started using a USB-C cable, it doesn't seem that it even attempts to load CarPlay. Is wired CarPlay only on the USB-A outlet?

Feel free to jump in with your own CarPlay questions.

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[roamtheworld]

Agree that shutting car off for a few seconds helps speed things up in my observations. Opening the door isn’t required in my case. Using USB once it’s connected wirelessly doesn’t work with the 4 iPhones we use in the car. We have tried to switch around and wireless always wins.
Priority in the list doesn’t impact anything either. Random phone connections happens when more than 3 phones are present. Not even the last connected phone gets picked up in most case's

 

[Pibe38]

The issue I started experiencing since 3.3.1 is that CarPlay seems to be connected, Spotify and actual navigation through Apple Maps works; but after driving for a few minutes Maps says it cannot connect with my car so my battery level may not be accurate, it also keeps the directional cues from showing on the center display.

 

[vortix]

I gave up on wireless CarPlay and only use it via wired. Works great with a cable connected.

 

[GW Shark]

My experience with Carplay wireless connection is to turn the car on and then wait (do nothing - no gear shift, etc) for 20-30 seconds. That gives the car/phone time to establish connections. It's getting in the car and immediately driving that seems to disrupt connecting, when it happens to me.

 

[methorian]

When/if I have issues with Carplay connecting (happens maybe 5% of the time?) I just do a quick restart of the infotainment system. Much easier than turning the car off/etc, and can be done while driving. The weirdest issue I encounter is CarPlay obviously connecting (phone says so and Carplay music starts playing), but it doesn't actually show up on the display.

 

[awp0]

Just throwing it out there: have you tried switching airplane mode on and off (on the phone) to get it to reconnect?

 

[back_at_it_19]

When it fubar, I restart sync (volume down and skip right) and I do a hard restart on the iPhone (vol up, vol down, and hold right button until itnpowera off and show an Apple on startup). My anecdotal view is that part of the problem is related to the phone itself, not always sync. Wired and wireless work equally well, except that wired has MUCH better Cd-quality music with downloaded “lossless” Apple Music.

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