Carplay doesn't auto connect and toyota app problems.

[Delta1Seven]

I’ve had my truck for about three months, and while I love many things about it, I can’t help but be frustrated with some issues—especially considering the truck costs nearly $55k. The most annoying problem is that CarPlay doesn’t auto-connect half the time.

Apple Car Play + Remote Start:
As far as I can notice, it seems if the truck sits overnight, Carplay won't auto-connect if I remote start the truck using the App (haven't tested with the keyfob if the results are the same). Does anyone have a fix to this? My iPhone is on the latest iOS and BT and wifi are both on. I have also tried repairing my phone multiple times.

(Don't get me started on how bad the remote start from the KeyFob is. Seems like it "lags" when trying to do the 3 Locks to initiate the remote start, and the truck only registers 1-2 clicks of the key fob the majority of the time)


Toyota App:
Every time I start my truck, the Toyota app on my phone asks to "Allow" to communicate. It seems whether you allow or deny, it still works, assuming the carplay was going to connect in the first place.

What's even more annoying, is once you make a choice, it auto-opens the Toyota app and then even if you close the app, it still leaves location services ON for the app (I get the icon on the top of my phone screen showing an app is tracking my location). I have the App set to "Allow location Access while only using the app", but seems like it still uses it until I force-close the app.

Does anyone know of any remedies of these issues? I can't be the only one!

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[Sner]

So same for me on the auto start. Anytime you auto start the truck with the app or the remote, car play does not connect. Any other time it connects flawlessly. The way I explain it to myself is that when the truck is started with the auto start, the head unit looks for a phone to connect to, and of course it's not there because it was auto started. Then when you get to the truck, it's done looking for the phone and doesn't look for the phone until you hard reset the audio head unit, or next key cycle. It's why so many say to hard start the audio unit and it reconnects - while a solution or just go into your bluetooth settings and toggle on use apple car play, and phone will connect. A rather huge oversight in engineering .... hope an update comes.

Worse is the radio not muting when a text message comes in. Ridiculous, and Toyota blames it on Apple and Apple blames it on Toyota, and we're just stuck with a half baked system that we paid for.

As far as location services, I've not paid much attention to it, I'm more worried about the things that don't work over things that "are" working in the background.