CarPlay not working after iOS 17.6.1 Update

With any normal company, we could just go back to 17.5.1, which worked like a charm. With Apple we are stuck.

I don’t know if there is any app to connect to hands free if the operating system does not work.

I am out of ideas to fix it.

Here’s what I had to do to make things work again on my 2019 Subaru Crosstrek: under CarPlay settings on my phone, forget vehicle. Next, I detached my phone from its cable, and deactivated Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth next, I shut my phone down completely. Finally I started l up the car and the phone while not yet connected together. As my phone finished booting up, I plugged it back in to the cable, and the rest seem to fall into place. It is possible that this requires a little bit of time, I was able to do this while stopping for gas for example. I say that to say: if you try this well, say sitting still in your car over a minute and a half or two minutes, and it doesn’t work, then it may indicate that you have to let it sit maybe about 10 minutes or so in this process. Best of luck!

After the 17.6.1 update I am also having problems with CarPlay connecting in my 2021 Nissan Rogue, it worked just fine until after the update. My biggest problem is it won’t work with Google maps; Apple Maps, or Waze for navigation. It freezes when I try to search where I need to go and if it does connect it stops and freezes and goes offline. I have to use the phone navigation without connecting in order for it to work. I did all the things, restarted the phone, the car, checked the apps for updates but clearly other people are having issues!Please fix!

RESOLVED our Honda issue by…

Resetting Honda radio back to it’s factory settings

Deleting all previous CarPlay devices from the Honda

Reconnecting iPhone(s) to Honda’s CarPlay

The Honda, and others, may have some confounding indexing issue

Nearly the SAME exact thing happened to me with my 2019 Ram Limited…

It seems like I have a couple of different situations in my scenario than the originator of this thread. See below:

• my 2019 Ram requires a direct connection for Apple CarPlay to work (wired not wireless).
• my previous phone (old phone I just upgraded from and am about to return for the trade in) still works after the updates. It is on the latest update PRIOR to iOS 18. The old phone is an Apple iPhone 12 Pro…
• I upgraded to the NEW iPhone 16 Pro (1T storage) which is running on the latest firmware, iOS 18. Now my Apple CarPlay will not work in my truck!
• Bluetooth still works (for media but NOT CarPlay… again, my truck does not have wireless CarPlay due to it being a 2019)

I’ve done ALL the things to try and fix this issue so I have Apple CarPlay again, with my new phone! What gives and how do we fix this, Apple!?

Same in my 2023 Honda Civic. I’ve done all the things. Won’t connect wireless or wired. I practically live in my car as a mobile office. So unacceptable.

Same issue here, 2019 Range Rover Sport wired connection, was working perfectly & android car play still works perfectly.

Car tells me that connection failed need to disconnect & reconnect - no joy…so I deleted the car from ACP - now doesn’t even see it.

Numerous reboots & resetting of network settings but zero joy….

Same issue here, never had an issue with carplay before but now wireless carplay doesn’t work at all and wired carplay constantly freezes and unusable ever since the phone upgraded to 17.6.1. Very frustrating please fix this asap. Hyundai Kona 2023 here

My BMW X5 CarPlay not working after the iOS update. Apple Maps just responds waiting for server but never connects. I’ve done all of the things suggested so it must be the iOS update that’s ruined what was working well. 😡. Apple please acknowledge this problem and fix it asap!!!

Did you get this fixed....we were on a trip recently Apple Carplay worked on older Apple SE and Newer 2020 SE and then on the way home September 19 seemed to stop working...would freeze the screen on the newer one and would even connect to the older one....we went thinking it was the Rental Car we went away today and it happened on our personal car.... We had changed the USB cord, Cars...checked all connections.... so I updated to IOS 18 today and the newer SE works... the older one just give a black blank screen and Apple no longer supports that series....

Had nothing to do with the infocenter's computer but I suspect the good folks at APPLE did some type of update to obsolete older phones to CarPlay.

Factory reset of the auto's audio system also fixed my Honda Civic symptoms

Wish the moderators had a way of bubbling "likely fixes" up to the top of discussions, as this kind of fix has been mentioned many times in these threads, but lost in a tome of dialog.

iPhone reset seems unnecessary btw

My guess is some auto audio systems have some issue with keeping track of what phones are connected to them. Wiping their slate clean fixes it.

And they all lived happily ever after…

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Factory reset of the auto's audio system also fixed my Honda Civic symptoms

iPhone reset seems unnecessary btw

My guess is some auto audio systems have some issue with keeping track of what phones are connected to them. Wiping their slate clean fixes it.

And they all lived happily ever after…

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Having the same issue on my Honda as well.

Same issue in 2024 Subaru Outback

Partially working google maps seems to work but unable to get or make calls and spotify does not work on both my 2017 Volt and our van with an pioneer head unit.