CarPlay iOS17 not working

I’m driving a 2023 Toyota CHR and got the exact same issues ‘Siri sending messages as though it’s listened to itself ‘what do you want?’’. Can’t verbally search for anything on maps as Siri gets very confused.

This all started when I upgraded my phone.

I wish I would have looked this up PRIOR to updating the software! Now my iPhone 14 Pro won’t connect with my 2020 Subaru Ascent. I didn’t realize it until I was driving down a mountain road and trying to answer my work messages via CarPlay. Now whenever I get in my car, my Meditation Music starts playing, not a good thing to listen to while driving curvy mountain roads, and I can’t stop it as it doesn’t show up as playing on my phone. I have reset everything and disconnected and reconnected and tried different cords. I disconnected the Bluetooth from the car, but now I’m having to look at my phone for the Maps while driving. I guess I got spoiled having it on my dash! I hope Apple comes up with a solution soon!!

I updated my iPhone 14 to iOS 17.3.1

and my Apple CarPlay no longer work with my 2022 Highlander CarPlay screen, a totally loss. Apple please do something!!!

Apple, please help your loyal customer. 🙏🙏🙏

I GOT IT TO WORK by disconnecting my phone from the infotainment center on the car: Settings, Phone, selected my phone, delete(or remove this device). Then on my iPhone 14 Pro: Settings, General, CarPlay, selected my Subaru, Forget this car. Then removed my Subaru from Bluetooth: Settings, Bluetooth, selected my Subaru, Forget this device. Then I turned my phone off and back on. Then I plugged it in to the cable in the car and I got the message to allow CarPlay from the phone, I selected Allow and it is working.

There appears to be a Subaru issue with using Bluetooth to connect the iPhone as then it has a mind of its own. It had the same issue with Pandora, now it plays Apple Music as soon as you connect to the car. I’ll stick to the hardwire!

Car manufacturers don’t frequently update the car’s entertainment systems, Furthermore people with brand new cars having issues with recent iOS.

I have a 2024 Hyundai Sonata and the car dealership says that wireless CarPlay is a known issue with the current IOS and that they don’t have any solution but to use a cable.

I have also tried everything with no success!!! We have a ford Everest, I brought a new phone thinking the old one was the issues unfortunately I continue to have the same issue with the new phone and apple play, very disappointed to say the least

Ford will need to fix their issue.

If you do an Internet search you'll see many Android owners complaining of the same issues.

Meanwhile all I can suggest is following Ford's suggestions.

What do I do if I am having issues with Apple CarPlay® in my Ford?

17.4 pretty much works for me(wireless connection) where 17.3 didn't work 99% of the time.

I connect to Carplay with no problem. Sometimes, when I go back to the car after making a stop, Carplay doesn't work. For example, the song is shown but it won't play. So I switch to the radio, and then back to Carplay and Carplay works again.

Keeping my fingers crossed that it will continue to work, it's only been a few days now. I also did a reboot of the infotainment system, not sure if that helped or not for using 17.4. Iphone is XR.

Have you had any luck this ? I'm in an identical situation to you- same phone & 2023 Lexus. Neither Apple nor Lexus are helpful. I have an NX & think 17 is not compatible with its software. Staff meat local Lexus had this issue with 17 but it was sorted with some of the updates. They drive UX and IS. When they connected their phones with my NX it went back to not working. Going crazy with this!

mwashin wrote:

No change still trying any listed suggestions. All have failed

Have you tried to reset your car "media" settings (could be "radio", "cable", "media", etc anything that sounds like that)? I posted it a few weeks ago and it was my solution after EVERYTHING else failed.

Finally sorted with ios17.4.1 - nearly 5 months with this problem. Apple & Lexus were not helpful at all (kept pointing to each other) - hours of contact with them both. Thankfully the last update sorted for me. Hope everyone else is sorted now too.

Apple CarPlay stopped working in one car the day after an iOS update. In another older car, it still worked. In the newer car, kept getting "accessory not supported" msg & the CarPlay icon on home screen was "greyed out" (disabled) despite USB cord & phone not having changed since day before when CarPlay worked.

Here is what worked for me to get Apple CarPlay working again although it require your car having a separate bluetooth music player function in order to work:

(1) The phone was not connected to the car with USB cord during this step:

Disconnected & then reconnected bluetooth connection from car to phone by going on the iPhone to BlueTooth, the "i" circle next to my car, and "Forget this Device" and then reconnecting it. Disconnected CarPlay as well by by going on the iPhone to General, CarPlay, MyCars and then clicking my car and "Forget this Car", but was not able to reconnect to CarPlay until Step 4 below because CarPlay icon was "greyed out."

This Step 1 may not be needed, but since I did do it, am including. Would suggest to skip this step & try 2, 3, 4 below and only if it doesn't work then come back and do Step 1.

I did also after Step 1 go into the older car and that is when I discovered that both Carplay & Bluetooth Music Player were still working fine in the older car. When I moved from the older working car back into the non-working car, the Bluetooth Music Player switched over automatically and started playing the music in the non-working car and that's how I accidentally discovered this fix:

(2) Used the bluetooth music player on my car home screen to play music using Spotify app on my phone. No USB cord connection still at this time. The music came in over the car speakers wirelessly.

(3) Once music was actually playing, only then plugged in the USB cord from phone to car.

(4) Now suddenly the phone was recognized and I could activate CarPlay normally, this is the point at which I re-established CarPlay that I had disconnected in Step 1. The music that had been playing via bluetooth wirelessly now switched to playing over CarPlay instead of wireless and other CarPlay functions like GoogleMaps were now working as well.

Another family member had a phone that also was suddenly not working with CarPlay in the newer car and this fix worked for them as well. They did also did do Step 1, but they never went into the older car.

Since I did the 17.5 iOS on ifone 14 pro max updat emy CarPlay is not working . It’s pairing but the screen doesn’t not mirror my Fone apps. It’s show the green wheel but no connection . I reset everything many times. Will apple send a new update ?

So has anyone figured this out yet?? I am a new iPhone user and the same thing has happened to me. CarPlay has not worked for me since January 2024 when I first got an iPhone. This is very annoying and I have also done everything the most helpful comment said they did…..

any tips?

After two weeks of not being able to get to work. I figured it out. I have a Kia Telluride, and here is what I did to fix it.

first step as many other suggested, is to reboot your infotainment system. For my car model there is a small reset button next to the volume control. I also changed out the cables and reset the infotainment system back to factory settings. None of that worked though. I also deleted everything out of my Bluetooth and out of CarPlay settings on my phone. The last thing I did today, which seems to have done the trick. Was go into settings, then general, then shut down, then slide to power off the phone. Then I waited about 20 seconds and powered it back up. All while the cable was still connected. When the phone fully came back up, a new CarPlay warning screen was on the infotainment center. clicked through that and unlocked my phone, now everything is working. Hope that helps someone.