iPhone 8 bluetooth issues

Possible fix to some of the issues. We had an appointment at the Apple Store last night and discussed this issue with them. My wife's Ford Explorer was dropping the bluetooth out intermittently during phone calls and even when not in a phone call. Her watch would also disconnect at times. The weird thing was we discovered that she could play music and it would not drop out when streaming music through bluetooth. We told the Apple Genius that we had restored the phone from a backup several times and that did not fix the issue. The Apple Genius felt strongly that the backup had something corrupt about it so he suggested that we restore this as a new phone and not restore from the backup any longer. We had to manually save all of the photos and contacts to a hard drive before doing this. Once we restored this phone as a new phone, we then added all of the photos and contacts again from the hard drive. We also had to add all of the apps manually. Finally, we tested making phone calls several times and we have not had an issue once. This may help some of you in the future. It is a long process so be prepared for this to take a few hours depending on the amount of files that you have. Good luck!

I contacted Apple and they did a complete test of my iPhone 8+. They told me that everything is OK with my iPhone but they know the problem. They explicitly mentioned the new BT5.2 standard as the reason for the connection problems and gave me the „advice“ that Mercedes has to update their BT.

In the eyes of Apple it‘s not a bug it‘s a feature and the rest of the world has to follow.😕 On my remark, that the support for the previous BT-Standard should be only a software issue I simply got a shrug of shoulders..

So I will change my advice, either take a iPhone 7(+), or buy a new car that already has BT5.2 implemented and then choose an iPhone 8,8+,X...

In my case I will talk to Mercedes but I think I know the answer... so I will try to change my iPhone 8+ to an iPhone 7+, we will see how obliging Apple will be😕

RESOLVED: I upgraded to the iPhone 8+ and all my Bluetooth speakers kept disconnecting. I had to use my iPad Air when streaming music to my Bluetooth speakers. Today I updated my iOS to 11.1 and the Bluetooth has been working flawlessly for 3 hours now. Before it would disconnect and connect every 5 minutes.

Maybe a breakthrough(at least here). Followed every comment and site’s suggestions on bluetooth connections to no avail. Suddenly I accidentally hit my old Iphone6 and music played on my wireless speaker. Ok that always worked but I named my new I8phone with the same name.... Are my devices confused and accepting my ld device only? Shut my old phone BTooth off and viola! My speaker name finally showed on my new phone device list and music played. Trying auto tomorrow am and will get back. Do you others still have your old phones? Make sure your new “named” phone is the only one trying to get bluetooth going. We’ ll see!

Finally the iOS-update 11.2 seems to fix this issue. After a 30 minute drive there was no connection loss. At least with my 2014 MB C-Class it seems to work.

And I didn’t reset my profile and in my opinion that’s meaningless, as my 8+ is a 1:1 copy of my 6+ which worked all the time with my car.

So I suggest everyone to get the latest iOS-Update!

Tom

My son’s iPhone 8 was having this problem. Wouldn’t connect to his taotronics headphones no matter what I tried. He was running Adblock through a vpn. As soon as I disabled the vpn connection, the headphones immediately connected. Hopefully it took care of the problem for good.

I recently got my iPhone 8 Plus (11.2.5), and had some problems trying to use it with my car. I got a VW Golf 2013 VII. I could connect the phone but the connection dropped every 1-2 minutes.

First I tried my iPhone 6 running iOS 11, no problem. Both the media- and phone function worked normally.

I then connected my iPhone 8+ as the media source, and kept the 6 as the phone source. Suddenly the 8+ didn’t drop the connection anymore. It appeared as if it was the “phone-part“ that was the problem.

I then deleted the 8+ from the car, and deleted the car from my 8+. I then reconnected the 8+, but this time I didn’t allow it to sync my Contacts etc. Since then my issues stopped. Give it a try.

Guys the problem solved with the 11.1 update

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 at 13:30, Apple Support Communities Updates <

I was also having problems with 8plus and the Bluetooth connection in my 2013 bmw ( disconnecting Bluetooth connection while on call, 20 seconds later back to phone etc) updated to iOS 11.2 and all appears well. Made a 10 mons phone call no drops etc all working okay! So far......

An update to iOS 11.0.1 was released earlier today. I would install that update and see if it fixes your problem.

Settings > General > Software Update

Yesterday I updated my iPhone 8 plus to IOS 11.2 and finally no more disconnections from bluetooth on my Jeep Wrangler 2014 Uconnect 430, take time but got fixed... Thank you Apple...

I’m pleased to say that I’ve had no more issues since updating to 11.2 - I drove 3 hours and it didn’t disconnect once.

I’ve had exactly the same problem and I even changed my phone but it’s still dropping. I’ve disvovered some type of solution - you need to take Bluetooth off before you are in car and then connect manually. This way it connects and doesn’t drop - but Apple need to realise this is a real problem. I’m on the verge of taking this back and getting an S8.

I just wanted to comment on this thread, as I recently dealt with this issue. I even returned my iPhone 8+ because I thought it was broken. It would pair, but constantly disconnect from the car and not play music . Would happen over and over then it would stop pairing.

I have found a fix that works 99% of the time for me. If I put my phone in a bag, and then in my backseat it works fine. I think there was too much interference with my car and phone. I can’t have it near the stereo. I also noticed just setting it on my backseat didn’t work either. I actually had to put it in a bag (my leather purse) This may not be the solution for everyone, but worth a try. For the record I have a Mazda CX-9 . All other devices connect fine, including the iPhone 6, and Samsung products.