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iOS 7 Bluetooth problems

I have a Prius and the a steering wheel controls stopped working after updating to iOS 7. I can't play the next or previous song which is pretty annoying because I have to grab my phone and look for the next/previous button while driving! It was working fine with iOS 6.

I believe this is a bug. Anyone else having the same issue?

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 5:27 PM

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Sep 20, 2013 8:10 PM in response to Sammytx

Thank you that solved the problem with my Prius. This is what I did:


1. In your phone, Go to the settings, Bluetooth and click on the (i) of your car's Bluetooth. In my case it was CAR MULTIMEDIA. Then click on Forget this Device.

2. Turn off Bluetooth in your phone so that it doesn't try to connect to the car's BT again

3. Go to your car, turn it on and delete your phone from the BT settings of your car and reset all BT settings to Default

4. In my Prius you have to delete the phone twice, because there's two BT connections, one for audio (multimedia/music) streaming and another one for phone Bluetooth (to talk on the phone). Make sure you delete both of them. It takes just a minute to do it, one is in the phone settings and the other in the audio settings.

5. Turn off your car and wait for a minute or so (this might not be necessary but I did anyway)

6. Turn your car on again.

7. Turn BT back on in your phone

8. Register your phone with your car's BT. The phone will ask you for the code (the default is 0000 or 1212).

9. That's it, once they're paired again, everything went back to normal.


Steering wheel controls are working again through Bluetooth, sound is great, and phone calling works again with no choppiness.


Hope this helps. Thank you Sammytx for your help.

Sep 20, 2013 9:18 PM in response to andresg

I solved the problem on my Pioneer deck using similar steps... Here's what I did:


1 deleted the stereo in my iPhone 5's Bluetooth settings

2 turned off Bluetooth on the phone

3 restarted the phone

4 deleted the device on my car stereo ( and made sure there was no entry in its phone settings)

5 turned off the car

6 turned the car back on and went to the Bluetooth menu to scan for devices

7 turned Bluetooth back on and put the iPhone in pairing mode

8 waited...


Music started playing where it left off and I was able to skip tracks again. Success! :)


Good luck everyone!!

Sep 21, 2013 7:41 AM in response to andresg

My Pioneer MVH-350BT head unit has lost the ability to skip tracks when listening to my iphone5 via Bluetooth since upgrading to ios 7. Also it sometimes doesn't pick up the music on the phone unless I manually go to the Music app and press play - which kind of defeats the object of bluetooth streaming. Everything worked perfectly before I upgraded to iOS 7. Its very annoying and potentially very unsafe as it encourages users to fiddle about with the phone whilst driving !

I really hope a fix can be brought out soon. I really like ios 7 - just this issue which some might say is minor, but I would say it could be potentially major if you end up dead!

Sep 21, 2013 9:50 AM in response to andresg

I posted last night about same problem. I switched phone off then back on and this morning everything is working now as it should in car without doing anything like I expected to do ie unpair then pair up again. Simply switched it off and even the music on the control centre on the actual phone is working so if you haven't turned phone off since update try that. Me I'm happy again

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