CarPlay with iOS 18 Broken

Again, Thank You! This TOTALLY fixed my issues with IOS 18 (and IOS 18.0.1 as well--they didn't catch this problem in that update either). Now, my Carplay works just like it always did!

Same issue here with my iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 18 on a 2019 Honda HRV Sport.

CarPlay using a wired connection was working perfectly through iOS 17.7.

After updating to iOS 18, the car no longer recognizes the phone.

Unpairing and repairing the phone in car system settings, unpairing car settings from CarPlay settings, using different (all genuine Apple) cords – none of these solutions work.

So I have to assume it's a bug/incompatibility issue with Carplay in iOS 18 and my car.

Hopefully someone from Apple will see this and point us towards a solution, or that Apple fixes the issue in the next iOS update.

I’m having similar issues. I have an iPhone 14 Pro and when I plugged my phone in to my car, it worked for five seconds and then my whole infotainment system restarted. I can barely listen to music now. No matter what I do my who radio restarts. I’m so sagging ****** because I can’t connect to car play via Bluetooth in my car.

Same problem, it is NOT VPN or other items. This started shortly after IOS 18 update. Have tried a new wire, wireless. There is an obvious problem that needs to be fixed ASAP. Carplay is critical to so many users.

I have this exact same issue. just updated to 18.0.1 but it is still happening.

I have a 15 pro max and updated to ios 18. I can get my carplay to connect wirelessly but now when i pick up my phone, say sitting at a light, and just TOUCH the screen the music stops playing. I have to lock the phone and then the music starts again. i have tried every single setting on the phone, the car, and nothing is working. it is maddening!!!

Just got off the phone with Apple. I directly asked if they are aware of the issue. FINALLY someone was honest and stated they are aware. We’ll fix this issue!!!!

No doubt it’s iOS 18 as I have two phones using the same cables and the one I didn’t update to 18 works just fine. Good chance this is impacting hundreds of thousands of people in very adverse ways. Apple needs to jump on it.

iPhone 16 Pro with iOS 18. CarPlay does not work with it on either of our cars. Both vehicles are late model (2023) and worked perfectly fine with my prior iPhone 14 Pro, and still work perfectly fine with my Spouse's iPhone 12 Pro with or without a cable. I've gone through the various recommendations in this thread with both our vehicles without success. I hope Apple fixes whatever they broke soon, as I rely heavily on CarPlay.

No, this is an Apple issue, not the car. CarPlay fails on both my cars, one is foreign and the other is American. Behavior began right after loading IOS 18.

This totally and immediately fixed it: Disable (under Accessibility) "Vocal Shortcuts" and disable any you may have enabled. THIS is the issue causing the majority of Carplay issues after upgrading to IOS 18 (BTW: it wasn't fixed with IOS 18.0.1 either). My issue with CarPlay was odd: when I plugged my phone in, the sound would only come out of the center console speaker, none of the other speakers around the car. To temporarily fix that, I would have to ask Siri a question and then cancel. 50% of the time that restored all of the speakers in the car. If it didn’t, and I tried to do it too often, then nothing worked at all! This fix, (disabling Vocal Shorcuts) however, instantly restored full accessibility to my CarPlay. If this works for you, too, PLEASE let Apple know by leaving a comment for them in their suggestion/comments section.

I just fixed my issue with wired CarPlay that would connect but just play on my phone speaker but CarPlay did show up on car screen and controls worked but played again only on phone speaker. So after updating to iOS 18 I did make vocal shortcuts under accessibility. Not voice control VOCAL SHORTCUTS. Disabled and deleted those shortcuts and it worked fine. Hope this helps someone

It’s not your head unit. I have a 14 pro max and it’s wrecked my car play. Tried a friends 13 with ios18 and it worked fine. There’s obviously differing hardware in various phones that aren’t working right with ios18. Best they sort it asap coz it’s unusable at this point

Thanks for this post, had same type of issues with my iPhone 14 plus after updating to IOS 18 and 18.0.1 didn't help. I made a vocal shortcut to turn on flashlight after updating. I disabled and deleted my shortcut and my CarPlay is now restored.

I have a 14 pro max I unpaired with my car and reset phone settings. I no longer can use accessibility spoken content to listen to books in the car. I hear every other word. It worked great before iOS 18 update.