iOS 7 USB Vehicle Loses last played location

I also have a Kenwood (BT852HD) and have similar issues. However, this DID happen to me in iOS 6, but I was able to work around it, with some annoyance, by starting the song I wanted to play before connecting the phone via cable. Even that doesn't work now. It plays the first song alphabetically every time. I hate that song now! But I'm not going to play music via iPhone in the car anymore until this is fixed.

Exact same problem. My phone no longer remembers devices. I used to plug it into my car, and it would start playing from where I left off in that car. Then at home, I would plug into my dock, and it would remember what was playing last time I plugged into the dock. Not any more. It forgets everything and starts playing a random song in my library.

If Apple ever reads these, please fix this issue.

At least somebody from Apple must be reading this, as my last post, urging people to contact Apple directly and report the issue, has been deleted.

I have the same problem in my 2011 Volvo. Worked great with iOS6 but as soon as I plug the USB cable into my iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2, it kicks me out of the current song that was in pause or already playing and starts playing the first song alphabetically in my music library. I watched my iPhone display and as soon as I plug it in the current song display changes to a view of the playlist that song was in. It doesn't matter that the first song in my library isn't in that playlist, that's what it plays. It kicks me out of the current song even if the car and radio are OFF but doesn't start playing the first song until the car is on.

Same behavior in my wife's 2013 Toyota except if I plug it in with the car off nothing happens until the car is turned on. Really frustrating.

Oops...nothing deleted, I was just thinking of this thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5336847?start=0&tstart=0

I haven't tried it yet, but somebody thinks they might know what's going on:

"If you are playing songs by artist, the above behavior occurs. This has to do with the way Apple structured the albums in iOS7, where the albums are not by themselves anymore but all lumped together in a row for each artist.

When playing a playlist, this does not occur and the songs resume where they left off. Occasionally a song will restart from the beginning but most often it works fine.

So, I created a few new playlists to get around this new "feature" for now."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5336847?answerId=23413879022#23413879022

I always have used playlists and and still have the issue with my phone never remembering what i was listening to last, it doesnt even remember the playlist, so i dint think this really resolve it, at least not for my iphone.

I posted this in the other thread:

Playlists -> select a playlist -> play a song - no issues

Albums -> select an album -> play a song - iPhone loses its place upon plugging or unplugging

Artists -> select an album -> play a song - loses its place

Artists -> play a song -> select album from upper right of Now Playing -> play a song - loses its place

Songs -> play a song - no issues

It does not resolve it for me i always use playlists i never play by albums, it neer remember which song and playlist i was in. If it has resoved it for you, awesome, but its not working with mine.

It isn't a matter of being resolved or not, I'm just saying with my setup, that's what happens.

The only real resolution would be via an iOS update.

I replied twice cos you posted your solution twice. I been using playlist on all my other ipods and iphones, and i never had this issue, now dont matter if im in my car or using headphones, it only remember if i briefly pause and restar my music, anytime i stop my playlist for more tuan 5-10 mins (not sure of the time before it forgets) it just plays my whole library, it only remembers that i use random play. Its annoying i use apple for the music mainly, i cant wait for them to have a real fix to this annoying problem.

Sounds like you have other problems then. The issue most of us are having is strictly with USB. Playing via headphones, Bluetooth or the internal speaker is fine. I'd be pretty surprised if the issues were releated.

I get the issue with usb and head phone, the issue are related, it was not there with ios6 its an ios7 issue. With some o the research and im not the only one who has this issue woth both, some ppl use usb more some use both head phone and usb and that weighs in, in the amounts of reports i have seen. What else could be the cause other than an OS problem either way.

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Jay Beale

Re: iOS 7 USB Vehicle Loses last played location

Oct 7, 2013 6:27 AM (in response to tammijo6623)

I don't think this is a matter of incompatibility with your car - it appears to be an issue in various contexts. See, e.g., <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5355622>

The issue with USB is when the iPhone is plugged or unplugged to/from the car stereo. It doesn't have anything to do with manually pausing.