Apple CarPlay not working with iPhone 15 (USB-C issue?)

Let's not forget that 5G cells do not have the range of 4G nor are they as populated on cell towers - yet (regardless what the cell providers claim). Rural areas often drop the signals for CarPlay.

Be sure that as Lobsterghost1 says Settings Cellular, then Data Options, choose 5G Auto.

Proper cable- with no additional adapter and iOS 17.2 fixes the problem.

Yeah, I went out and bought a belkin cable and it connected at first. After several days and an update it quit. It’s definitely an apple problem with the USB-C. Not being able to cable my phone to my CarPlay means that I essentially cannot use my phone in the car without causing safety issues. I can set limited compatibility so I can play music through my Bluetooth and answer my phone, but I no longer can bring up my Maps nor voice text. It is more than annoying.

Instead of using Belkin BoostCharge USB-A to USB-C cables, would you just be able to use the mophie USB-C 20W Car Charger that plugs into the 12V auxiliary power outlet in your car to avoid the USB-A problem with using Apple CarPlay?

Be sure to tell Apple about it, either by contacting Apple Support directly:

Contact - Official Apple Support

or by leaving feedback:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Same problem, wired connection in a 2020 subaru, i have a iphone pro max 15 and Carplay won't recognize the phone

If an update changed this, it would have changed it for everyone. It certainly didn't change anything in either of our cars. So, it's not the update.

If you open Settings App on your iPhone, then Cellular, then Data Options, choose 5G Auto. If you go out of 5G range, the phone will automatically switch to LTE as its designed to do.

Its great it worked out for you, most do not have that luck. Apple's cable does both as do almost all USB-C to C cables. I have even tried a USB-C 3.1 V2 10Gb cable with no luck on it connecting every time.

I also am having intermittent issues: sometimes my iPhone 15 Pro connects to CarPlay on my 2019 RAM Rebel truck and sometimes it doesn't. I am using a USB C cable and have tried other cables with same result. I have even had my phone connected with the cable and it was not working. Then suddenly after quite a while it connected to CarPlay and worked fine for a couple days. The next day when I connected it did not work?? Doesn't seem to be any logical reason why it works part of the time and doesn't work other times.

I tried multiple USB C to C, Including a Lightening 3.0 cable. (also tried C to A) Spoke to AppleCare for 45 minutes trouble shooting. They referred me to Hyundai (2023 Ionix 6 EV). No help.

Phone is iP 15 with iOS 17.0.3.

Bluetooth/USB on car works fine. iPhone 13 (iOS 16) CarPlay still works fine. Phones have different names.

Car Infotainment is thinking It's an Android device which I manually switch.

It appears that the car still doesn't recognize the new device.

Any thoughts were the old IPhone image is residing?

Thanks, Bruce

Tried all. Using the original iPhone cable. The vehicle recognizes the phone and Bluetooth works fine and phone charges.

Just rebooted phone and car infotainment system. iP recognizes car for BT. Wired connectivity charges the device.

Hyundai BlueLink support walked me through the same steps as AppleCare did.

Read the article on cables. The Belkin Lightening is approved on for iPhone 15. Apple sells it under accessories.

I'm stuck, but at least I don't stop at gas stations!

This is not a vehicle system issue. Neither mine or my wife’s phones work in our jeeps. However there are peoples that are on the forums that have the same phones and jeeps and theirs do work. This is even using apples supplied cable. So to blame the vehicle doesn’t ring true either. Same can be said about cables. Some have tried different ones and it worked while others do not. So at this point, no one really knows why.

that has already been thought of and checked. Latest updates, Different cables, change name, change settings etc etc. as stated, there seems to be no rhyme or reason why one will work and one will not.

In the three pages, several people have chimed in with issues not necessarily related to just USB C.

You can be skeptical, which is fine. What you can't do is suggest what I've done and now verified by another user didn't help. It may not help you or solve your issue. There are so many variables involved from different infotainment systems, many of which haven't been updated in a long time, to different cables, some of which may not work for Apple CarPlay. At the top of this page is a user tip submitted by a senior member of this forum, which describes very succinctly, the issues one can be confronted with in cables.

I’m having the same issue . My new ubc cord that came with iPhone 15pro max won’t work in my 2019 blazer for charging or CarPlay . I purchased other ubc cords on Amazon that don’t work either but will work in the back ubc port to charge the phone . Wild .