GregoryGearGuy wrote:
I’m having an issue with Apple Music and CarPlay in my 2016 Honda Civic. Over a period of several months. I have been troubleshooting this issue in respect to different apple devices, cables, car settings, and the potential of other factors causing the issue. I have been able to identify the steps needed to reproduce the issue. The issue is not limited to a specific Apple device, and affects other car infotainment systems with CarPlay.
The issue is this, I can connect my iPhone to my vehicle and the CarPlay interface will come up fine. After approximately 2 min the screen will say device not connected. Sometimes it will continue to play music but the only way to get CarPlay to come back up and work properly is to unplug the phone and plug it back in.
My research and troubleshooting has led me to discover that the issue is in some way related to having a large music library and having iCloud music library turned on. It is as if the cars system is trying to build an index of all the song titles in the library and around the two min mark it hits some sort of limit and crashes the entire system. I have tried to resolve this issue through several means with no success other than simply turning off the iCloud music library. I would really like to be able to have access to my music library and use CarPlay but am unable to do so until this issue is resolved.
As I have been able to reproduce the issue with other vehicles and CarPlay systems I’m not sure if the issue is more of an Apple issue or a car system issue. I am inclined to believe that Apple could resolve the issue as there was a previous version of iOS where my vehicle did not have this problem.
However the problem seems to be related to a memory issue in the car infotainment system itself. It could easily be resolved with a setting where you could turn off indexing of the music library. I had a similar issue in an older Ford vehicle and this was the solution. I tried to do this by turning off the song by voice setting thinking that setting is what causes the system to try and index my music library, but that didn't resolve the problem.
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I have the same car, same issues, conducted the same troubleshooting, and have come to the same conclusion that a large Apple Music library is at the center of the problem. Frustrating to say the least. With each new iOS version, I am hopeful it will get addressed - even though I truly believe the fix will ultimately have to come from Honda.
For the last week, I have had "iCloud Music Library" disabled and been experimenting whether the likes of Spotify and/or Amazon Music could fill my music void. I am quickly finding that Spotify, in particular, comes somewhat close but isn't without its share of usability and overall organizational issues. But it doesn't "crash" CarPlay so it has been refreshing for the past week to use and enjoy CarPlay without thinking it is going to flake out on me.