iOS 15 - USB Car Connection

Update: Spent $20 at Best Buy for the lightning to aux plug and it does work. You can’t skip songs and it doesn’t display any song info on the radio face like it does through usb but if you are impatient like me, it’s good enough for music and navigation.

No joke, even Forbes ran an article about it in the last few days.

We were ready to buy a whole new car radio. We were pulling fuses. Changing cables. For weeks. It was so frustrating.

It took us two different help sessions to finally get a phone call from someone who was like “yeah, it’s us, not you”. The first two reps just played dumb like “are you using our cable”? Lol come on man.

Like cool, that’s helping the 9,000 times a week I use my phone for hands free GPS. So we invested in a Garmin. 🤷‍♀️

Kinda had it with Apple’s shenannegains. I’m still gonna use their phones because I’m a moron but it’s really frustrating that they can just jack up a really important feature for so many users and just shrug it off like “we’ll get to it”.

Same issue here. I do not understand why Apple can't leave things alone. I buy Apple products because they work. Great theory while it lasted. When you pay the kind of money that is required to own Apple products these issues and concurrently not fixing them is absolutely unacceptable.

I read on here that we gotta wait for the next update. I believe it’s the 15.2. Good luck. If you figure something out before the next update make sure you come back here and let’s the community know. Bless

I bought an aux cord and have been using the aux cord with the iPhone adaptor piece untill a new update comes out and the problem is fixed. Super annoying though cause I have two different cords laying around everywhere

I have the same problem where 2018 Cadillac XTS I thought I was having electrical issues with my car even when I use Bluetooth it just stops playing,I turned my car off and repaired my phone and so far the past couple of days haven’t had any issues

Not only has the update cancelled out my usb connection it has also changed my Spotify wifi operation. Safari on my phone is a joke now that it’s format changed too. Last I phone I’m ever going to own. Apple can get out of my life

Awesome to hear!! Waiting for the spouse to drive home tonight and report *hopefully* the same. Noticed they didn’t directly mention it in any of their update notes that I could find lol. Wonder if I can go get my $20 from Best Buy for this stupid aux cord I had to buy.

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Sorry for confusion, not sure if 15.2 was my last update or if I’m yet to receive it. However what ever number was the last up date has changed my phone in regards to my music being played thru a usb cable in my car and my spotify library play list( which could be a spotify thing) thru a wifi connection outside of home wifi. Wasn’t like this before update. Wish I didn’t have to update S I was happy with how it was before update.

Dude 😊

I have XC60 2017 (but still first gen) and right after new OS installation I did not see a difference, BUT I had to restart my phone and after that restart it started working, so if it does not work for you right after upgrade, power cycle the phone again (I mean, turn off, wait half a minute and then start again)… let us know if that helps.

Weird Christmas miracle?

Weve got a 2011 Cruze, an iPhone 8plus and an iPhone 11. After 15.2 was released, we weren’t one of the lucky ones. Our usb to phone to radio connection still didn’t work and the aux cable was the only way to use it.

We still used the usb outlet for charging. So I plugged my phone in as the passenger the other day and it worked. Absolute dumb luck. About five minutes later it stopped working. The next day? Worked flawlessly.

It’s worked perfectly the last two times we’ve used the car on both of our phones.

I have no idea why or how.

Same issue as OP. USB interface on radio no longer recognizes my iPhone 13 Pro, 2010 Cadillac SRX.

iOS 15.1 broke it for me.

It seems to be an issue with iOS 15.1. I downgraded to iOS 15.0.2 and it works fine again. There are a few other threads in the issue too.

Same for me. Hasn’t worked since updating to iOS 15.1. Works fine for my wife who is on 15.0.2.