iPhone 13 Pro loses bluetooth connection to car 2-8 minutes after starting a phone call

UPDATE:

I no longer have bluetooth issues connecting to my 2015 Toyota Camry after updating my Apple Watch Series 5 to version watchOS 8.4.2 and iPhone 13 Pro Max to iOS 15.3.1.

If you're having bluetooth issues when connected to your car, be sure to update both your watch and phone!

I don’t have an Apple Watch and my OS is updated but still having problems with my iPhone 13 max pro going in & out of connection with my car. VERY frustrating! When I’m in my car I never know whether a call is going to come through on my phone or my car, and it switches in the middle of a call. It also will not always disconnect from my car when I hang up. Totally inconsistent. I’m a Realtor and make my living in my car and on my phone. This needs a fix!

That’s exactly what happens to me now. IOS 15.3.1 helped, but the phone still disconnects randomly and has to be reconnected manually. Am in sales & on a board so used to use it often while driving. Very distracting and dangerous.

Ever since I upgraded to iOS 15.3, my I phone 13 pro seemed to pair ok with my 2017 Prius prime. I only post this after 3 weeks of trying. I am a physician and mostly I talked only less than 10 minutes.

Hi. The car was never my main issue. It was more a problem with the sound randomly becoming scrambled or garbled for 30-30 seconds while on a call no matter which Bluetooth device I was using, including car. I ended up buying a new watch and it’s ok now except it does disconnect from the car sometimes and switch to my airpod or to the phone if I don’t have an airpod in. I had a Series 2 watch. My beef was that I was not told the watch would not be compatible with the 13 pro. Apple says they are very transparent with that but I was never made aware of it. It took 3 months of phone calls, replacing the phone, resetting the phone multiple times during which I lost a lot of contacts and data until I finally figured it out myself after seeing someone comment they figured it out. Apple refused to even give me a discount on a new watch after years of faithfulness to Apple. Wasn’t planning on buying a new watch right now. Not happy

My experience is less intrusive but more quantifiable: my watch loss connection every now and then on a regular basis. You may say this behaviour is because it is paired with a Galaxy Watch (sacrilegious ^.^) but every time it happened the App Radar COVID showed a warning telling it cannot work because BT was disconnected, so the disconnection came from the iPhone side, not the watch and I can easily could write down every single time it happens.

The reason I don’t spend more time with this issue it’s because I’m pretty sure Apple knows that this is happening but they don’t have any remotely idea why it’s happening, as usual. Some day the would release a patch with this very specific fix and end of history, as usual too.

It is not my first time with this kind of issues with iPhones.

I have left feedback to Apple Support. They really need to fix this issue. We are all going to be driving around illegally talking on the phone. Frustrating. I’ve not had this issue with older phones or other brands. Only the 13 Pro.

having same issues on with my new iPhone 13 Pro Max and holding calls in my Audi a4 Allroad (2014). Phone connects with the car, can make & take calls, but as soon as a WhatsApp message, SMS, e-mail is delivered the call is dropped from the bluetooth, but still functional on the phone, and then suddenly re-connects to the bluetooth 20-30seconds later. very frustrating.

IOS is 15.4.

Just found this thread, I’m also having connectivity issues in my car. iPhone 13 on IOS 15.4. Car is a Mazda 3 2014 model ( no CarPlay)

This is my third Mazda and my previous phones 6 and iPhone 11 , never had the issues I’m currently experiencing.

I have Apple Watch series 5, also latest software. I love to listen to audible and podcasts in the car through the phone. I have renamed the phone , unpaired Deleted the phone, re paired, reset phone and so on to no avail.

i rang apple Friday evening , was waiting on a follow up call yesterday however the call dropped ( ironic huh) so I’m still waiting , however on the phone they didn’t give me any idea on how to fix this as I have done everything as currently suggested on these forums!

can anyone help please !

I thought I had the problem solved when I purchased a new Apple Watch Series 7 but all of sudden now I'm experiencing the bluetooth connection in the car switching back and forth from the car to my AirPods or to the phone itself.

Someone from Apple called me and he scheduled an appointment in the Apple store. That person deleted all my apps and reset my phone rather than using the set up from my last phone (I hope this makes sense). That, along with the last couple of IOS updates have worked for me.

I did however just purchase AirPods and hope to heck they will work! My first Bluetooth earphones.

I went through a couple of weeks of back and forth with them to troubleshoot my issue. Then 15.4.1 came out and the problem was solved. I can only surmise that the engineers got a handle on my issue, found a bug and fixed it. I have no proof of that other than the fact that I’ve had this issue for quite some time and it got to be important to me so I created a support request.

Anyone who has this kind of problem should report it here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone/