Siri not working with CarPlay after iOS 18 Update

You’re in better shape than me. Car Play won’t start since I upgraded yesterday. I’ve tried everything the support site says to do but 🤷‍♂️. IOS 18 broke Car Play. I hope the patch update comes soon.

I downloaded ios18 and now I am unable to send or receive text messages in

in Apple CarPlay. It says this: Siri not available Siri requires a network connection. Everything worked fine on my iPhone 15 pro max before this

Since loading iOS 18, CarPlay in my 2023 Subaru Forester has not worked. Keep getting the Subaru screen to disconnect, wait, and reconnect. After doing this cycle about a dozen times, CarPlay still does not appear.

Tried different USB-C to USB-A cables with my iPhone 15 Pro, and the same Subaru screen appears . . . Disconnect, wait, and reconnect. Not thinking its the cables.

Even went thru the ‘forget this car’ by removing the car from my iPhone to no avail. After removing the phone, and when the car does appear to connect, it does give the screen on my phone about accessing CarPlay while phone is unlocked . . . But the disconnect, wait, and reconnect Subaru screen appears shortly thereafter. This tells me that it wants to connect and engage CarPlay; but something is still not allowing it to engage.

Also went into the Screentime settings to ensure CarPlay was checked to be an allowed app in the content and privacy restrictions. Still, the same disconnect, wait, and reconnect Subaru screen appears.

It seems there is something in the new iOS that is not allowing Subaru’s infotainment system to fully engage CarPlay. Please help!

Siri sometimes sounds robotic on CarPlay now when I text people using Siri. If I ask a random other question like Weather or sports then she has her normal voice. Not sure why the update caused this, but please fix it!!!

Exact same here - 2019 Subaru Outback. I just bought the 16 Pro Max, plugged it into the USB (with USBC adapter) and CarPlay is unavailable. I even deleted my phone and added it again, but with no luck. Is this an iOS issue or Subaru issue?

I have the exact same issue with a Subaru Forester '24. Phone 14 "Here is the most obvious symptom. When the iPhone is connected to the Subaru with CarPlay, if I ask Siri to message, my daughter, her name will pop up on the car’s CarPlay screen and the little circular glow thing is there, but it does not take audible input."

This has been known about for way too long now. Life without CarPlay after living by it is awful lol almost dangerous. Nah I’ll just say it. Feels as dangerous as the days of searching for CD’s to play out of a case logic

Interesting to know that you were not using the steering wheel controls for handsfree operations in your vehicle. Never occurred to me that users with steering wheel controls weren’t using them. Seems like if you were using Hey Siri before while in the car you may have been technically it using CarPlay for those functions and were instead using Bluetooth with the phone treating the car speakers like a bluetooth headset (which technically is what people that don’t have CarPlay in their vehicles but can pair their phone via Bluetooth would do). Nothing wrong with that of course but just surprised

Some further testing. When I say “Hey Siri” on her phone it works. But her voice does not. It seems like the training is not applying to CarPlay Siri. It works for her off CarPlay but only for me during.

I also have this issue. I’m sure Apple has secretly disabled the feature to save our batteries for our own good. But for $120 you too can buy a new battery so Apple will re-enable the functionality. Or, please remember to purchase a new iPhone every 18 months so you don’t have these type of issues.

I have had this EXACT same issue with CarPlay since doing the update.

i’m kind of glad I’m not the only one having this issue. I have a BMW 330i and ever since I did the update on my 16 Pro phone will not listen to me in the car! Very frustrating!

I have a 2020 Honda Accord and, unfortunately none of the suggestions worked for me either. I deleted all of the CarPlay connections in both the phone and car side and still nothing. This is beyond annoying at this point.

I have a 2024 Buick Envision and Siri has glitched ever since the update. She will answer, then I’ll say the message I want to send, then she’ll repeat back the first or last sentence only! Or she says something like “I can’t give you that information at this time.” It is totally unacceptable that a feature that keeps people from having to look down at their phones while driving is totally messed up due to another update! When will this be fixed??

My problem is specifically associated with CarPlay navigation. I can successfully ask Siri for a routing. However, when I launch, I see the turn instructions, but they are not spoken. I also see the same navigation instructions on my Apple Watch, but no sound.

• iPhone 15 Pro Max
• iOS 18.11
• macbookAir M3
• Apple Watch Series 9
• watchOS 11.2

Thanks.