Bluetooth Connection Issues ios 10

Ever since upgrading to ios 10. My bluetooth connection in my car (2016 Hyundai Sonata) keeps connected and disconnecting every few minutes. This never happened pre-upgrade. Is anyone else experience this?

iPhone 6, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 14, 2016 6:21 AM

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Nov 17, 2016 5:12 PM in response to MoHawk26

I feel your pain.


I drive a 2015, BMW 328 xDrive wagon. While running iOS 9 on my iPhone 6s plus, I experienced intermittent problems with the Bluetooth connection including the following:

  • Dropping the bluetooth connection while on a call after a few minutes (have to manually try to reconnect via the BMW console)
  • Intermittent connection with streaming media from my phone (e.g. Podcasts, spotify, iTunes, etc) via bluetooth. If I took a call while playing media, I lost the bluetooth media connection when I ended the call. Only way to fix it was to stop the engine and restart the car!


BMW dealership & service department told me that Apple is aware of the problem and that fix was included in iOS 10. After patiently waiting 10 months and updating to iOS 10 (now running iOS 10.1.1), I'm finding the same problems and now have these:

BMW iDrive now hangs/freezes when trying to place or end calls. You're held hostage while iDrive is trying to process what's happened even though the iPhone has ended the call or is trying to make the call! When iDrive is hung, you can't toggle to anything else, including Maps, other media, etc.


The irony? My bluetooth connections work marvelously on my 2016 Subaru Impreza and my 2014 Volt.


Apple and BMW -- please consider offering free Apple CarPlay upgrades so we can have an improved experience. This is not safer driving!

Nov 18, 2016 1:01 PM in response to MoHawk26

I have the same issue. My 6s with IOS 10.1 lost the ability to use the speaker during phone calls (either in or out) in my 2009 Honda accord. Worked flawlessly prior to IOS 10. Blue tooth connects but speaker will not engage.

I have tried all the resets and possible fixes to no avail.


This is my first apple phone, not really putting confidence in their product updates. why should you update if it breaks what was working?


Now I risk a ticket in a no hands phone state .... Apple should fix this quickly or they may be party to lawsuits since they broke a system that was working in IOS 9. That would be an interesting situation.

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