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

iOS 15.01 didn’t fix the issue. iOS 15.1 is not released yet I’ve heard from a friend who’s testing it the error is fixed so will have to wait for 15.1 release. Otherwise I start Amazon Music on the phone and then plug into CarPlay and it works then. Another option is to transfer the playlists over the Apple Music and go that route (which I’m sure Apple would love).

I have 2 iphones both worked perfectly with carplay before the upgrade. Now both do the same thing can't connect so sure the upgrade to ios15 broke something. I then just downloaded ios15.1 still no fix....

You can do what someone suggested here already, that is to start the app, play a song and connect it to your car it seems to work that way for now, though it’s a big pain. I hope apple hasn’t done this to beat Amazon’s subscription over Apple music.

I also do QA for mobile apps (both iOS and Android). What you’re saying can be true but sometimes it is an iOS bug and is up to apple to fix it. Certain bugs, particularly ones related to an apple api or security, are simply not fixable on the app side.

Nope if you need beta, you need to sign up for the beta program and download a feedback app. Then you can get the beta. Be advised that you may see lots of other broken features and you can not easily get back to a stable Apple release if you get the beta and get into trouble.

iOS 15.0.1 did not fix this issue with Amazon Music and CarPlay. I have about 30gb Amazon Music downloaded to my iPhone 13 Pro Max. When I can connect to Amazon Music (usually it says something like “Unable to connect to Amazon Music, try again?”) and go to my downloaded music, nothing comes up. Even trying to select music that’s not on my iPhone doesn’t come up with anything.

There is a work around, but it's annoying. You have to open Amazon Music on your phone, it'll come up with a blank black screen. Force close the app and reopen it and it'll launch correctly with the Amazon Music logo. Then CarPlay will finally connect correctly.

Thank you very much! I suppose I’ll wait till Apple fixes this issue. If ever. I hope they’re reading these issues on these feeds. I can’t imagine them releasing this upgrade with such a major problem! They need to hire more 15 year old programmers. :-)

Amazon music haven’t upgraded their software to accept or recognize IOS 15.0.1. So I cancelled Amazon Music & purchased Apple monthly subscription and it works great now. Apple is more expensive but it’ll do until Amazon gets with the program.

So, yes carplay with Amazon, Sirius, etc is fixed....sort of it. When you use carplay with Amazon music it does get filtered through carplay. However, it blacks out the app on your phone when you exit the car with your phone. Not 100% quite yet. Close but no cigar Apple!

I wouldnt call it great because they fixed something they broke unnecessarily and caused so much pain for atleast the people here.

Not to mention trying to fiddle with your phone while you are driving.

15.0.2 does fix the pain for now.

No kudos to apple though

My Amazon Music on my Iphone 12, while it does now work with carplay, continues to crash or blackout the screen only after carplay. Apple please continue to work on a fix for this issue as I have to constantly delete the app and reinstall several times per day and is quite annoying.

Same issue, Amazon music not working with CarPlay since IOS 15.01 release, really frustrating. This issue will result in car drivers messing with their phone whilst driving so has safety implications, come on Apple, sort it out. I’m not swapping to Apple Music if that’s the intent by not fixing, I’ll simply switch next phone to non apple product.

OMG I never thought of that! I DID cancel my Amazon Unlimited Music because the Apple customer service lady said it was an Amazon problem. Luckily with my new air pros I got 6 mos free. I’ll switch back to Amazon after that ends. Hopefully Apple will have it fixed by then.

Go to general - updates - click to download 15.1 - the legit one is offered, not the beta version. My husband does the beta stuff, most of the time i can’t get regular Apple to do what it is supposed too, so i am not about to do beta!!