CarPlay Is Breaking for Some People After iOS 18.4 Update

Apple precocious released its highly anticipated iOS 18.4 update for iPhone users, which includes caller emojis, AI goodies, precedence notifications, and respective changes to CarPlay. Unfortunately, those changes look to beryllium doing much harm than good, and we're seeing respective complaints that CarPlay is astir unusable for some.

The iOS 18.4 update was expected to yet fix immoderate large CarPlay problems, particularly for EV owners. The main CarPlay alteration is 3 rows of icons connected the location screen, on with the quality to acceptable a default navigation app successful the EU alternatively of lone Apple Maps. It besides added APIs to let sports apps to amusement scores connected a caller Now Playing interface. While it's large that this merchandise made it truthful users tin present person 3 rows of icons connected the location screen, it besides delivered a clump of connectivity issues and glitches to vehicles.

Multiple CarPlay users connected Reddit, X (formerly Twitter), and elsewhere person reported that the iOS 18.4 update made conveyance connectivity unstable. We're proceeding that the dashboard nary longer displays "Now Playing" information, notifications are acting wonky, and more. Interestingly enough, iOS 18 notification issues aren't new, with beta users mentioning complaints past month.

More importantly, it's easier to safely support your hands connected the instrumentality erstwhile your telephone stays connected, allowing CarPlay to show maps, incoming calls, and different information. Unfortunately, that's not the lawsuit for many, and countless users person reported repeated connectivity issues. Phones support connecting and disconnecting endlessly, and for wired users, immoderate are plugging the telephone successful implicit and implicit again until it yet connects and works arsenic expected.

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The complaints are coming successful from everywhere, and they're not constricted to a circumstantial marque of conveyance oregon stereo receiver. Users connected Reddit reported CarPlay bugs successful cars from Audi, Chevrolet, Mazda, Ford, Honda, VW, and others.

So, what tin you bash to hole immoderate of these problems? Unfortunately, we don't cognize of immoderate fixes astatine this time. 9to5Mac recommends unpairing the full system, deleting your car from the CarPlay app, and starting over. Users tin occurrence up an iPhone and spell to Settings > General > CarPlay > and swipe to delete a vehicle. Then, re-pair your car to the telephone and app, and hopefully, it'll enactment a small better. One idiosyncratic said helium tried this process twice, and the 2nd clip seems to person fixed the problem. Just cognize that your mileage whitethorn vary.

It doesn't look similar users tin hole this themselves, and it'll apt necessitate a bundle update from Apple. If there's a metallic lining, it's that Apple is already engaged preparing to merchandise its iOS 18.5 update, which is already successful the beta investigating phase. Once released, it should code immoderate of these complaints. However, considering the iOS 18.5 update won't beryllium released until adjacent month, galore iPhone owners trying to usage CarPlay could beryllium retired of luck until it arrives.

Along with changes to CarPlay, the update to iOS 18.4 yet added RCS enactment to Google FI and different T-Mobile carriers, fixed a clump of random bugs, added much features to the Photos app, idiosyncratic reappraisal summaries successful the App Store, Ambient Music controls successful Control Center, and more. Stay tuned, and we'll study backmost erstwhile we cognize much oregon find a imaginable fix.

Source: AutoEvolution, 9to5Mac