Amazon Music Unlimited Does Not Work With CarPlay Since iOS 15 Update

Yea, definitely has bugs, this is all I get when trying to navigate using CarPlay, have to do all song selections on the phone itself, very annoying. Hopefully Amazon or Apple release and update to fix.

IOS15 broke my carplay with amazon music also. I cant use any of my playlists. I just get the error "unable to connect to "amazon music" when trying to access my song playlists. Hopefully an update comes out soon to fix this issue. Really like the amazon muisic unlimited and car play combo.

I’m having the same issue and can’t find 15.1 update. A temporary work around is to disable Bluetooth and WiFi on your phone, start playing Amazon Music, then enable Bluetooth and WiFi. Not the best, but will let you listen to music. Hope this gets resolved soon.

I have the same issue and it’s so frustrating! I did find that if you start a song or playlist on your phone then plug into the car while it’s playing that seems to get around the issue. Just make sure you don’t try to open the music app while connected or you will have to manually kill it first.

I too have struggled with this very same issue since the update. Thankfully it's not me. I have tried everything and nothing works. I am so happy to hear that this is not my lack of technology as I have spent countless hours trying to fix this issue to no avail. I have already spoken to Apple who states that this is an issue with the vehicle's infotainment center; I spoke with Amazon who says it's an Apple problem and Kia motors says it's my iphone. This really stinks as I can no longer listen to music through Amazon where I have spent a lot of money purchasing music over the last 15 years as well as Sirius radio - that app also does not work since the update. I'm furious.

Yes! I have to uninstall and reinstall Amazon music app at least twice a day. What an ordeal. Can't believe that this happened to so many people and nothing can be done about this. None of my music apps work now on Carplay (amazon, spotify, sirius) due to this upgrade and it seems to fall on deaf ears with Apple.

ME TOO! So frustrating - exact same issue. I have spent countless hours with Apple customer service but to no avail. Why should they want to help with other apps that are not Apple products? What do they care? So aggrevated.

Being a developer and tester, (not for Apple) I can tell you that it is near impossible to test every app that’s available on the App Store to make sure that it works properly with whatever your trying to use it with. Each company is given the opportunity to adjust and program its OWN applications to be updated and work properly with a newer operating system, in this case, iOS. It is up to the developers of that app to make sure it works and that it is also backwards compatible with previously supported version of in this case, both iOS and CarPlay. Unless the developer of the OS has been made specifically aware that something on their end is broken and is rejecting or blocking this is some way, they would then have to find the issue and update it themselves. I cannot remember off hand if my Amazon Music app has been updated post or just before the iOS15 release, but it is possible that for all the apps in the App Store, there are bound to not yet be released updates from those developers to work properly with every aspect of the new OS. And while the app may work as it did before, if something different in the code is ran across and it’s not accounted for or tested properly, you will get what you are seeing. Also, even if the issue is on the app developer itself, usually they will stay quiet about the issue, not update customer service that their is even a problem and from what they can see there isn’t. This way they keep their paying client whilst placing the blame on another. While you can’t get rid of your phone, you can easily cancel a subscription and move to another, thus losing business. Be patient, an update will come from one side or the other and suddenly it will work again. 😁

Same problem started for me also after iOS 15 update. My Amazon and Sirius XM music apps won't load, but Apple Music works just fine. Also, my phone won't connect to bluetooth. What I've found as a workaround (for Amazon Music) is to start the music player app on the phone, and then connect it to my head unit, music will then play through carplay with full controls.

Same with mine. Since the iOS 15.0 update Amazon Music does not work with Apple car play. I really hope this is sorted soon as it’s the whole point of using apple car play so you don’t have to touch ur phone to change songs etc while driving.

Same issue here. Apple Music doesn’t seem to work 100% either.

and same issue with Amazon Music., same work around method as mentioned. Start playing before connecting.

disappointing really. Apple products are meant to just work. And I’m not sure what in the blue blazers is going on with the weather app.

I'm having this issue on my phone. I download the app and it opens right away. It asks me to login to my amazon account and then it works. But when I close it out and go back in it's just a black screen. This started after I did the ios 15 update...

I am having the same issue. However, if I open the Amazon Music app on my phone and close it, then pick a station or song from my library, it shows up in my CarPlay. Not ideal but it has worked for me.

yet again, I spoke with an Apple rep this afternoon inquiring about when they anticipate a fix for this mess that they left us since the initial ios15 update weeks ago. They state that they are receiving other calls concerning this issue and they are working on it. I will not try the many suggestions from the public for fear that I will do damage to my phone. I have tried a thousand different tricks or bypass methods and nothing works. Just have to wait for an actual update from Apple that works aimed at actually fixing these issues.

15.0.1 did NOT fix issue! I’m on iPhone 11 and I keep reading that’s just an iPhone 13 problem but it’s all phones that have updated to iOS 15!!!! Pretty pathetic it’s taking this long!! Shame on apple!