CarPlay is the worst in the 4th Gen

[TacoFreak]

Yeah - iPods, as useful as they are have become stone age tech these days. I think my music files were corrupted when I got my last phone and I need to erase the files and reload them soon. Still would rather just plug in the trusty iPod.

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[TacoWill]

CarPlay has been fantastic in mine. I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max and the truck has JBL audio. No disconnections or anything and everything has worked as expected. Better, actually. It’s been a significant improvement over my 3rd gen.

 

[f7eleven]

i got super annoyed when my android auto went to shit.. it was either cutting out all the time, or it would show that it was playing but i got zero audio.

i said, "fuck this" and cancelled all the subscriptions in the toyta app and decided i'd just plug my phone in -- but then AA started working wirelessly, flawlessly.

 

[RockBox]

I used to drive a Honda Accord and after a couple years, CarPlay started failing. In my or our case as I will explain. Honda switched from Alpine to Clarion headunits. Clarion went out of business, so whenever Apple pushed an update, the headunit wouldn't know what to do with it. It started with the system slowing down and as updates continued to push, it got to the point to where anytime I plugged in my phone, the entire Infotainment system would shut down, which meant, no audio, no navigation and actually my entire dash illumination failed which meant at night, I couldn't see how fast I was going.

Curious, I found a Honda forum and found I wasn't alone. Doing more research, I found that every Honda vehicle from that generation which was 2016-2018 had the same issue and Odyssey owners had successfully sued Honda. I tried to get Accord user to start a class, but they overwhelming felt Honda wouldn't let them down.

After about 9 month, I decided to sell the car and buy something else. Here is what happened. Honda waited antil the warranty period was up on all those vehicles, then sent letters to owners advising their car was out of warranty and despite being aware of the headunit issues, the only option Honda had was for you to bring your car in, and have a patch applied for $250 (A patch that was already outdated as Apple had already pushed a new IOS)

I will also tell you that I had been in contact with both Honda and Apple for more than a year. Both said it was the other problem. Apple said they provide a platform, but it's the car makers responsibility to ensure it remains stable and Honda said less as I'm sure they were bound by an NDA, but they did say, they were working with Apple engineering for a solution.

I read someone posted to delete the software or app and reinstall. That only works if the issue is a glitch in the software, if many of you are having this issue, I wouldn't sit on your hands.I was lucky and smart to dump my car, but thousands of Honda owners took pipe to the backdoor because they couldn't imagine Honda letting them down.

 

[TacoFreak]

I write software for a living and I am pretty sure this is software problem, but it is tough to figure out which part(s) are to blame. Of course Toyota will say it's Apple, they would say the reverse and we are stuck in the middle with no real way to fix this kind of stuff ourselves.

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