iPhone 7 Bluetooth connectivity with Ford SYNC malfunctions

I found a program on my Lincoln owners web sight called "SYNC My iTunes" that finds songs in your iTunes library that are incompatible with SYNC. When I ran the program it found 185 songs that needed "fixing". It didn't help my initial connectivity problem, but may help fix audio problems once connected.

So I'm not sure if I've fixed this issue or not, but Bluetooth seems to be working as intended now. On a whim, I tried the "Reset all Network Settings" again and I've not had a skipping or stuttering issue since. It's been working for 3 days now with several hours of music played in the car. I've taken phone calls, streamed from Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora without incident. Hopefully I haven't jinxed myself!

https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/29/iphone-7-ios-10-bluetooth-connectivity-issues/

As of today, October 3, everything is back to normal. Bluetooth connectivity has resumed and my phone paired and plays as normal. Sync update? Not sure. Rain dance? Harmonic convergence? Whatever. I'll take it.

Hoping that a fix to the IOS comes out soon, as I can no longer do hands free incoming calls in the car, and can no longer receive text messages through Sync. I can however dial out and talk hands free just fine - weird!!

I have done a factory reset on both phone and Sync which made no difference. I have tried connecting my sons iPhone and the same happened - no hands free or text messages.

Please Apple do something to fix this ASAP!!

I'm on Verizon and it doesn't work for me.

Oh yes, I am beyond frustrated with this. I have a brand new 2017 Ford Explorer and my issue is not with the Bluetooth by the USB connection. At times will connect, at times it won't. If it does play, if I skip a track or anything, it goes nuts and completely locks up.

Very frustrating as Ford is not any help and neither is Apple. I don't know if it's Ford's issue with iOS 10 or Apple's issue with Sync 3. Either way, it's not working.

I am having similar issues with my 5s connected to an aux cord but my problems only started after I updated to the 10 operating system. I know another individual having the same issues on his 6 connected with bluetooth in his Ford Edge only after updating to the 10 operating system. Both our phones worked fine previous to the update. Any advice out there ?

I'm having the same issue!!! I hope they fix this problem really soon!!!

I'm having exactly same issues but with Iphone 6s! I can't believe apple is not reading this to give us a solution!!

My iphone 6 worked just gfine until

I updated it to iOS 10

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I have 2015 Explorer & experienced the same thing after a recent update for my iPhone 7Plus, however after visiting the Sync Ford site I found out they just don't have the firmware set up for the iPhone 7s yet. So disappointing.

yes it happens all the time i have had new phone for two weeks.

I'm on Verizon and can definitely attest that it's an issue with this carrier as well. No problems with my 6, but my 7+ will pair and make calls but nothing else. If it's plugged in for USB music, if I hit a bump/pothole (quite frequent in the D.C. Metro area) it stops my connection and goes back to satellite radio. I keep getting an error saying that my phone will not allow messaging through sync (which is new), so I don't get notifications to text messages anymore which is super frustrating when it's now a first offense (to get pulled over by the police) in our area to have your phone in your hand - so now I can't see if a message comes in, or have the car read it to me or respond. I thought upgrading my iPhone was great until it won't talk to my car - and with an hour+ both ways commute to work, this needs to be fixed ASAP. I have a 2015 Ford Edge.