iPhone 5s with iOS 8 connection problems to Ford Sync system.

I Had a similar situation with my Mazda 3 this morning. my phone said it was connected over bluetooth and playing audio but there was no sound. i tried this for a podcast using the Instacast app and also via the music app. Neither had any sound.

I have a 2011 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. Connection through bluetooth seems to work, calling seems to work, Siri seems to work, music seems to work, steering wheel controls work, handover seems to work with iPad and Macbook. I must be the luckiest person alive.

hello all I also notice this issue I have a 2013 ford focus with Microsoft sync system I plug in the usb cable to the phone and usually forget about it. what made me notice this active Bluetooth connection and dead air meaning as that the music stops was that after a call this morning I was stopped at a parking lot and went to open my mail app and the music never came back and once I hit the top sleep/ power button the radio came back on. so I waited a moment and re did the steps I had don't. I pressed the home button and there went the Bluetooth connection back up on the sync system and then I did the slide to unlock and as long as I was on the device the Bluetooth keeps on being on as soon as you turn off /sleep the phone with the top button the sync system goes back to normal I had to un link my phone from the car because it became bothersome this morning the only down side from unlinking the car with Bluetooth is that in case of an accident the sync 911 assist wont work since there isn't any phone paired or other sync system hopefully there is a solution either on apple or Microsoft side please

My Bluetooth audio seemed to work but it will reply music from the beginning and not where I left.

However for usb connection audio, it looks like is a wide spread issue and Apple failed to test this properly.

My Mitsubishi outlander refuse to recognise my iphone as an iPod device and would not play any music

. On the other hand, it still charges my iphone.

I hope a patch will fix it quickly as I am not too happy with the new ios at the moment.

Having having same issue with 2013 Ford Explorer. Was able to make Bluetooth calls over speaker phone on ios7 and now can't since downloading ios8 yesterday (9/17)

I too on my 2014 Ford Flex, It connects, try to make a call, it hangs up. But still shows my phone is connected. guess have to restore to IOS 7

There is no way to restore to ios 7 if it was that easy I would not need to post the question here.

Update

I did a forced reboot by holding the home and power button to restart and turned on my audio and plug in the usb audio and it recognises it as iPod.

Same problem with me in my 2012 Dodge Charger. Bluetooth work ok but USB connection for iTunes audio is a mess. Apple needs to fix this.

Same problem for me. I have an iPhone 5S that I upgraded to IOS8 yesterday. And the BT connection *****. I have a BT connection to my car and handfree audio work correct. But I am not able to play music, neither from the built in Music app with iTunes music or from a streaming service (WIMP, EU only).

Audiostreaming to Airplay devices works fine. Tried the AppleTV and a Marantz receiver with Airplay support. Problem is BT.

I have a 2013 Ford Edge with MyTouch SYNC and after installing iOS 8 my iPhone 5 would not connect. After trying to fix it by deleting the phone on the SYNC the existing BT device on the iPhone would not connect.

After multiple trys, I told the iPhone to "Forget" the "existing" SYNC device and repeated the pairing process with MyTouch SYNC. This time my iPhone 5 and MyTouch SYNC were able to "pair" and all is working correctly again.

Hope this helps!

I have the same problem. 😟

i have iphone 5s and i connect it to my Kia Cee'd 2014 with USB connector, with IOS 7.1.2 everything was perfect, I was control on my Music App with the car.

After i uploaded to IOS 8.0 its not work well. the music not play when i choose song from the car's screen. the only thing i can do its control the music from the Iphone.

Pls fix this!!!! I using with Iphone Music on my car everyday!

thanks,

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I am also having the same issue. I upgraded my iPhone 5s to iOS 8 last night and this morning I had several features not work correctly with my car. I have a 2013 Ford Focus. My phone would connect via bluetooth, but no sound would come out for navigation or music. Once I eventually got the music to play, I could not change songs or pause/play via the steering wheel buttons or the touch screen. Even trying to change songs on my iPhone wouldn't work.

This is very frustrating as I consistently use Google navigation and my music while in the car. I do not like the Sync on board navigation. I bought the 64gb iPhone 5s so I could load all my music on it and I did not want to have a separate music player.

I tried deleting the connection and resyncing my bluetooth after restarting the car and the phone. After that it got worse and the Entertainment wouldn't even connect to my iPhone.

My Ford sync is working fine but I have experienced this behavior before the update.

Try disconnecting the phone and connect again, that fixed it in the past.

If you continue having this problem, try deleting the pairing on the car and phone.

Pair as a new device.

Same problem with my BMW M235. I tried deleting and re-pairing too.

I also have the issue via USB.

the phone seems to think music is playing, but the car simply says 'unknown track'