Apple Wireless CarPlay Problem/Solution
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I just figured something out with MBUX and iPhones. My wife has an iPhone 16 Max pro, and I have an iPhone 15 Pro. The EQS is her car. I have been able to connect to wireless car play without any issues. Her phone has only been able to start CarPlay via usb-c cord. So with the Polar Vortex keeping me inside today, I set out to solve this problem. After many deleting the phone in MBUX Bluetooth, on the iPhone, etc. I started to compare phone settings between the two phones.
The solution was my phone had the Mercedes WiFi hot-spot set to Auto-Join, while her phone did not. Once I turned on Auto-Join it worked great. Lots of info on the internet pointing towards Siri as the culprit, but it wasn’t. So WiFi is necessary for CarPlay to work with MBUX, it’s not over BlueTooth. Most manufacturers use BlueTooth.
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Howdy!
I just figured something out with MBUX and iPhones. My wife has an iPhone 16 Max pro, and I have an iPhone 15 Pro. The EQS is her car. I have been able to connect to wireless car play without any issues. Her phone has only been able to start CarPlay via usb-c cord. So with the Polar Vortex keeping me inside today, I set out to solve this problem. After many deleting the phone in MBUX Bluetooth, on the iPhone, etc. I started to compare phone settings between the two phones.
The solution was my phone had the Mercedes WiFi hot-spot set to Auto-Join, while her phone did not. Once I turned on Auto-Join it worked great. Lots of info on the internet pointing towards Siri as the culprit, but it wasn’t. So WiFi is necessary for CarPlay to work with MBUX, it’s not over BlueTooth. Most manufacturers use BlueTooth.
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