iPhone7 Bluetooth issue in the car

I have this issue with my iPhone 7 Plus and my 2016 RAV4 SE. I was at the dealer for the 5,000 mile service and had them check it out. He showed me a printout from their internal technician's system that shows that none of the newest iPhones have been tested yet with the Toyota systems and that when new phones come out there is almost always a short time where they have issues. He suggested to keep checking back and once they are tested there might be a firmware update (that they have to install via USB) to fix.

Please keep us updated if you hear back from Toyota, @prodemann. Thanks!

so that means older cars are screwed lol

I have a AT&T 7+ and a 2012 Acura MDX. Never had a problem with previous iPhones and this car. Got the 7+ and had terrible disconnects/dropouts like everyone else here. I called Honda and they basically said I'm out of luck because Acura is not working on SW updates for my car. They said hopefully an iOS update will fix the problem. Nice.

ok - been using b2 (which came out today) for about an hour, only 2 minor stutters! Much better experience than other builds so Im very encouraged right now!

After three months of my new iPhone 7 not being able to play any music via Bluetooth in my 2010 mazda car, I finally have troubleshot something and it worked! This is taken me weeks and weeks of trying everything - even resetting my phone multiple times or unpairing my iOS device to my Bluetooth car system and repairing my phone and car. I had tried everything even hoping Apple updates to iOS 10 would work. The culprit? My Apple Watch.

Every time I was in my car, I would try to play music. Every single time, 30 seconds into the song it would get garbled and disconnect, reconnect, disconnect and inevitably would never work.

Finally I put my phone in airplane mode and turned Bluetooth back on. It worked. But I wasn't sold.

Then I turned my phone off of airplane mode and problem resurfaced. But what good is having an iPhone 7 in airplane mode just to listen to music in you car?

So I finally tried airplane mode for my watch (keeping my iPhone in normal operating mode) and it's been 2 full days and not one single issue. I think I've finally figured the most annoying and frustrating issue I've ever had with an apple device in my life.

Try it - if you have a watch this may be the issue!

I have an iPhone 7 running 10.2 and a 1st gen Apple Watch running OS 3.

I will try newest beta tomorrow, and I don't have a watch but I do have a fitbit. Maybe I'll try with that off.

So far the only thing that has worked is turning off LTE. My daughter's 7 is fine (mine is a 7 plus).

What year is your car if I may ask? Sounds like cars that aren't brand new seem to be most impacted. This entire thing is frustrating.

2016 Range Rover

Mine is pretty much brand new: 2017 Audi Q7, six months old, same problem. 10.2 didn't fix it.

I've reverted to a hardwire connection. If I remember I'll try BT again with my Apple Watch off.

I called Apple Customer Relations today. They noted this was not an issue they have heard of yet. I pointed them to this discussion and then things started to progress. At this point my iPhone 7 Plus on AT&T has been replaced and still has the same stuttering effect. To remedy the issue I have turned off LTE data. This has cleared things up, but I would rather use LTE versus 4G.

Further the stuttering is most effected when I move from wifi to LTE. This is usually when I pull away from my house an the LTE takes over. I have completed a master reset of my Ford Fusion 2012 Sync system and updated the system. Short of testing my theory of using a SIM free phone I don't believe that this issue will be resolved, but I am hopeful the support tech will help bring light to this issue.

I am also curious if anyone on T-Mobile or Sprint have had this issue. I have only seen Verizon and AT&T iPhone Plus users post here. Anyway I hope you all the best of luck.

I'm in the same boat as you. I got my phone replaced for this issue a couple days ago and instead of doing a restore I downloaded some music to the new phone and on that car ride home the dropouts continued.

At this point I don't know what to do.

Very frustrated. My wife is having the same problem as well.

I've given up on Apple fixing this issue as they won't even acknowledge it exists, even though I've reported it to support numerous times.

I decided to go back to the last 6s plus I bought (it was only $30) and return my 7 while my window was still open. It leaves me upgrade-eligible and It gives me more time to look for a replacement.

I'm considering switching to Samsung but I have concerns about the glass back on their Galaxy 7 phone. Hear it cracks easily. And they are considering removing the earphone jack on their next version.

I'm also hearing that Apple might use a glass back as well on their 8 phone. If that happens, both companies will have no earphone jack and both will have glass case backs.

I'm not happy about either, so I'm just going to wait it out. I'll have to turn off Bluetooth in my car in the meantime because I can't stand that garbled voice effect.

They won't care until a class action is brought upon them. I guarantee it's being swept under the rug.

Tmobile network here.

Ford Explorer 2015. Worked fine with iPhone6 Plus.

Got an iPhone7 Plus and having a conversation through the car's hands free system is just so annoying as the BT link drops regularly. Can't hear the other person for a while ... and then restores ... and so on.

Feels like we're gone back ten years in Texhnology!