iPhone 4, VW Golf Bluetooth issues
Just got a brand new 2012 Golf TDI with navigation. My iPhone 4 with iOS 5 paired just fine via Bluetooth and the phone part works awesomely well. The problem is with music via Bluetooth. I cannot browse, select or play the content of my phone from the car system. Everything is grayed out. It will play audio only if I manually play it from the phone itself. Apple tells me that VW will need to update their software, iOS 5 being so new. Fair enough, I will check with VW. The dock connector cable works great though, but you have to select it in the Music app because it connects to Bluetooth by default.
But the most annoying thing is that when I turn the car off and walk away, the audio part of the phone (ringers and alerts) still think it's connected to the car and stays at minimum volume. I have to manually restore it every time I leave the car. Now that is obviously an Apple issue. The phone should come back to the state it was in before connecting to the car's Bluetooth. If I forget to restore volume, I may miss important phone calls or texts...
iPhone 4, iOS 5