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Apple CarPlay is an absolute piece of garbage. It always hangs on the “connecting to iPhone” screen. I just want to see my nav. Infuriating.

oehtXRwMkIs 6y ago
I find it more infuriating that car makers like BMW make you "rent" CarPlay despite already paying for all the hardware. They make you pay extra for a luxury vehicle to overcome their garbage infotainment system only for CarPlay itself to be disappointing.
- pivo 6y ago
  They reversed their position on that, didn’t they? https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/04/bmw-free-apple-carplay/ https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/04/bmw-free-apple-carplay/
michaelwm 6y ago
In case this helps, my Android Auto went through an infuriating phase where it refused to connect, and my cars screen would continue to say exactly what yours said. For about two weeks I was incredibly frustrated, until I discovered that I just had to clean out my phones charging port with a toothpick and it immediately began working again. The dust and debris from repeated connection and disconnection had piled up and prevented certain data pins from connecting, but once removed, it worked like brand new. I now clean out my phone’s charging port every month and haven’t run into the issue again. I was relieved that the issue was this simple to fix, and hope yours is too.
- max0563 6y ago
  This was an issue for me recently, I had a massive hair ball in my charging port. I was having charging issues and what not. The not connecting issue was a problem long before and after the hair in my charging port though. It’s definitely a cause in some cases though.
recursive 6y ago
The Android one completely disables my phone. The car never acknowledges that anything is happening. The worst is when it does this when I just want to charge the phone in a car.

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Apple CarPlay is an absolute piece of garbage. It always hangs on the “connecting to iPhone” screen. I just want to see my nav. Infuriating.

by max0563 6y ago

oehtXRwMkIs 6y ago
I find it more infuriating that car makers like BMW make you "rent" CarPlay despite already paying for all the hardware. They make you pay extra for a luxury vehicle to overcome their garbage infotainment system only for CarPlay itself to be disappointing.
- pivo 6y ago
  They reversed their position on that, didn’t they? https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/04/bmw-free-apple-carplay/ https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/04/bmw-free-apple-carplay/
michaelwm 6y ago
In case this helps, my Android Auto went through an infuriating phase where it refused to connect, and my cars screen would continue to say exactly what yours said. For about two weeks I was incredibly frustrated, until I discovered that I just had to clean out my phones charging port with a toothpick and it immediately began working again. The dust and debris from repeated connection and disconnection had piled up and prevented certain data pins from connecting, but once removed, it worked like brand new. I now clean out my phone’s charging port every month and haven’t run into the issue again. I was relieved that the issue was this simple to fix, and hope yours is too.
- max0563 6y ago
  This was an issue for me recently, I had a massive hair ball in my charging port. I was having charging issues and what not. The not connecting issue was a problem long before and after the hair in my charging port though. It’s definitely a cause in some cases though.
recursive 6y ago
The Android one completely disables my phone. The car never acknowledges that anything is happening. The worst is when it does this when I just want to charge the phone in a car.