I have a 2024 can am spyder and it comes with apple car play, but it does not work, BRP says its a apple thing, what gives?
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Pretty common knowledge that the 2024 Can Am Spyders did not ship with Apple CarPlay enabled due to a licensing issue. It was widely reported that they were working with Apple to resolve the licensing issue and had advertised an April 1, 2024 date for resolution.
I don't know if it was live on 4/1, but as of today, April 4, 2024, Apple CarPlay is available on the 2024 Can Am Spyder. You simply need to connect your Spyder to WiFi and via the menu Preferences: General, select Download Update for the BRP Connect application. ~10 minute download and ~10 install. Your mileage may vary. ;)
Has anyone had any luck yet with the apple car play on the Can Am Spyders. It’s ridiculous after being promised that ACP is on the machine and spending over 30K to find it was never on there. I’ve called Can Am and just keep getting told we’re working on it and just a few more weeks.
That would be a good question, I think who ever they have now is not doing a very good job.
I will be interesting to see what firmware number they show when they gets the bugs out.
If it shows 2.1.2 then we know they were just dragging the feet, and there will be more failures coming soon.
Yes we are all ready beta testers, but we report our issues to no one except for the people on the forums to read.
And with my experience, BRP doesn't read or look at them.
I found out if you turn on the key, and instantly push the throttle forward and push the start button, it will start before the screen loads and you see a blank screen and when the radio shows there are no preset stations and a power button for the radio, then a couple seconds latter the presets show and the radio button disappears.
Won't make a bit of difference. BRP/Can-Am has already shown they do not care at all about their customers or this issue in particular. Calling them out on X will do nothing to change this I'm afraid.
I think we should let BRP know that were MAD and are not going to take this lightly.
From what I have read on other forums, BRP doesn't have a clue that this is a great issue and there are many customers of theirs that are ****** off.
They could care less about there customers, since we have all ready paid them for a spyder.
Thank you for the post.
I believe we were all miss lead, even the people that did some research, like me.
Thank you for the picture of the update to v2.1.1.
You said that you had it on your spyder for a little bit.
Did you find any problems as to the bugs they reported as to why they pulled it?
Were you able to test any things out?
There was another update that flashed the gauge back to v2,x.x were you forced to update or did you do it voluntarily thinking it was a better update?
Yeah I paid the extra $$$ for a 2024 specifically to have ACP. I could have gotten a similar 2023 for far less money and better interest without ACP of course. I am beyond annoyed myself at how long this is taking. They have been demoing the new head unit and ACP for 6+ months now, how is it that they couldn't find any "bugs" before now, and why is it taking so long to fix whatever the issue is?
Thank you for the picture of you screen with the downgrade back to 2.1.0
I must have a earlier version that what you showing. The only number that shows close to what you show is 1.9.0.
I just read a distressing post on spyderlovers, it was from there admin, or one of there people that can change writings in you post.
Since he is not a 2024 spyder owner and lives in Australia, his thinking is a little different than what a 2024 spyder owner is thinking about BRP.
Long story short, he says BRP doesn't have to do anything about fixing the issue with the spyder, there selling and were buying.
Well ACP was shown to be part of the new spyder, and all I want is to use something I purchased.
I have been emailing back and forth with BRP about this as I upgraded specifically for Car Play due to touring Europe a lot (Next one in 4 weeks) and I wanted the facility to see Sat Nav on a larger screen and not on my phone strapped to the handlebars as I did with my Ryker.
Todays response absolutely astounded me... and I quote:
'We kindly request that you refrain from emailing us further regarding this subject.'
Safe to say they got an extremely abrupt response from me.
I am now considering further action against BRP
That sounds like BRP, same old BS, "we are working on it", "just another couple weeks", "our team is working non stop".
Just let us truthfully know what your doing and when your planning on getting on fixed, and what fixes are being done.
I have other problems besides ACP.
Just like other companies, when the upgrade is done, they note what all has been addressed, and fixed.
I wonder what were going to see?
If its true, "our team is working non stop trying to get a working update', I wonder how much time they have actually spent on the update, and how much money they have spent so far on a fix?
As we see, BRP does not care about there customers. There not doing every thing for the customers, they keep giving us failed time lines, and when there failing that, there trying to keep us happy by giving us money to buy there stuff or a extended warranty.
Has anyone else received a letter from BRP offering them $500 in accessories or 1 year extended warranty? I did the other day. I’m not going to take either and accept their low ball offer. I think a class action needs to happen.
I can do you one better. I bought for acp but don't have Apple phone, avid android user... Loved the promise of the feature so much that on way to pick up bike I stopped and got a sparkling new iPhone just for the Spyder. Oh to my surprise.
Uh...I'm a bit confused by your "bike to bike communication" question.
Pairing your headset to the bike allows ACP on your bike to send audio information to the paired headset.
Your Cardo Packtalk Edge appears to support Mesh communications, which would allow you to communicate with other Mesh users, but that has nothing to do with your Spyder or ACP.
I’ve successfully connected my helmet and phone to the bike for AVP. However, there seems to be a substantial lag, like 10-15 seconds, when activating Siri or talking on the phone. Has anyone else experienced this? My headset is a Cardo Freecom 4X. Any suggestions?
I’m curious to know. How is your call quality and message playback quality? My call recipients sound really slow like playing back a tape at half speed. Same with voice iMessage playback. Everything else works great. Just can’t make or receive calls and messages.
I haven't tried to make or receive any phone calls while riding, so I can't answer your question about call quality.
I also use my iPhone and Apple Carplay for navigation in a 2023 Honda Ridgeline, and don't make or receive phone calls while driving it either.
To be honest, I don't make a lot of calls at all. Sorry.
Why is CarPlay not functioning on my 2024 Can-Am Spyder?
