Dearborn, we have a problem - CarPlay

[silverelan]

Have you tried rebooting Sync?
Right arrow and volume down button on the steering wheel for 10 seconds

Easy way to remember this: Down & Out

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[Kamuelaflyer]

Yes, Apple has a dedicated team of their best iOS engineers, who go into a secret conference room at Apple Park everyday, just to figure out new ways to mess with Ford/Lincoln Sync users

I’m kidding, but the mental image is funny!

Apple playing around with CarPlay is like giving Metamucil to someone with IBS, with a big gulp sized prune juice.

It’s also full employment protection for the CarPlay group. If they leave well enough alone, they won’t have jobs. Hence CrapPlay.

 

[EELinneman]

This is the correct answer. It took me a long time to diagnose this and finally figured out that, if any “media” was trying to play on the phone (say a safari page had a video on it, or you were watching YouTube), CarPlay would keep trying to take over (about every 5 seconds), until you closed the offending app on the phone.
This also happens with Bluetooth headphones- people will be listening to stuff on their AirPods or whatever then, when the car comes into range, the connection is seamlessly transferred to the car. Took me a while to figure out why I was having problems with phone calls when my car was at the car wash. Apple has addressed the headphones issue with an iOS setting but I don’t know if it would work for this situation.

It was the demonic phone. Something hardware-wise failed, and it was broadcasting Bluetooth non-stop despite killing all apps, factory reset, etc. Charlie Sheen's level of instability. Swapped it out for a new one and audible peace has returned.

I'm blaming neutrinos for the hardware problems. Nobody can prove me wrong, so that's what I'm going with.

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