Apple CarPlay keeps interrupting the radio
I have seen this issue posted multiple times across these forums with various suggestions for fixes and none of them work. After CarPlay connects to my radio it then continuously interrupts the source I am listening to every 15-20 seconds or so. It happens with any source satellite, FM, etc doesn't matter. It will briefly change the source to CarPlay as if it were to play music. The interruption is brief, you can see the CarPlay source pop up for a couple seconds then it returns to the original source. Each time it does this the music or whatever I'm playing stops briefly, so basically every 15-20 seconds the radio goes silent for a few seconds. I own two vehicles with CarPlay and it happens with both of them. They happen to both be Jeep vehicles, but this problem is clearly not specific to a particular manufacturer as there are posts on here for the same issue with people of numerous different makes and models. If you simply google "apple CarPlay interrupts radio" or some search term similar to that, you will see numerous examples. This is very evidently an iPhone or CarPlay issue. I am going to link an article for example that speaks about this below. I tried every single suggestion in this article and none of them fixed the problem. What does briefly fix it is a hard reset of the phone, but that basically only lasts for the period you are in the car. Next time you get in the issue is right back again.. I think we would all agree, no one should be expected to hard reset their phone every time they set foot in their vehicle.
I've never posted on here before so not sure how this works, but this needs to get escalated to the engineers at apple that can QA this problem. The community specialist responses, while appreciated, have not provided a viable solution. Can someone please fix this???
I'm attaching two screenshots below of what happens, the first is my regular source, the second is when CarPlay interrupts and the music or whatever I am listening to goes out for a few seconds. I'm also attaching the following link to on example of the many posts I've found on here regarding this issue. This post I found the most informative and as I said, I tried every step in this post from the poster and the community specialist and the problem persists. Please get this to the Apple team or direct me to where I can send along myself, thank you for your time.
Apple discussion I referenced previously