CarPlay with iOS 18 Broken

I had the exact same problem as you and here's what I did...

CarPlay does not work with the microphone on. If you see an orange dot at the top of your iphone screen, your microphone is on. It may be that an app has it on, but for me it was Vocal Shortcuts. Go to Settings then Accessibilities then make sure Vocal Shortcuts is turned off.

Wired or wireless CarPlay? If wired, try another cable. Many cables are charge only and will not pass data.

Exact issue here, tough the screen and the system collapses! It’s frustrating!!

This also worked for me with 14 pro and iOS 18.01. I did add 1 vocal shortcut after upgrading to 18.01. Deleted the shortcut and turned vocal shortcuts off. Thanks

I think it's IOS 18 not your car because it is happening to so many different car makes both foreign and domestic.

Seems a typical pattern. In my case I can’t connect my Skoda wirelessly but works fine with cable. Very frustrating. Apple must be aware of this issue.

Wrong

Not the problem

No trouble with CarPlay and the iPhone 16 Pro Max for me (tested the wired connection just to be sure although I strictly use the wireless connection in my car). Unless it’s an issue like it was last year where the problem existed for specific car models/makes it may be either an issue with you cable you’re using or something with the phone specifically. If another iOS 18 device works fine in the same vehicle it’s unlikely to be an iOS issue in your case.

UPDATE:

After writing the response below , I saw a suggestion in another thread that turning off the VPN connection on my phone might solve the problem - and it did! Seemed like a counterintuitive solution to me but I'm not complaining.

Anyone still having the same problem might want to try disabling VPN on their phone, resetting all pairing settings, and trying again.

Keeping my original message below for search purposes in case anyone with the same specs as me is having this problem.

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ORIGINAL RESPONSE:

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.

My iPhone connects (wired) just fine until I updated to ios18. Now, when I try to listen to a podcast, it plays for a second then mutes. I have to touch the podcast icon to get it to work. Also, when the phone's plugged in, I can't switch to radio - I get an error message saying this action is not available. Grrrr.

If you’re connecting wirelessly, try the following.

Forget the phone on the car and the car on your phone.

Go to settings>general>iPhone reset>reset network connections.

Hard restart your phone.

Re-pair your devices.

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

13 pro works perfect, 16 Pro will connect wired and CarPlay will work for about 5 minutes, I've made at least 5-6 chats and calls to support, done everything they asked. CarPlay might last 3-4 minutes then back to bluetooth. So I'll throw some $ and have firmware updated on Charger, if it works great, if it doesn't, the 16 pro is going back and I'll keep on with 13 pro. I'm sorry I bought the new watch and 16 pro, should have been happy with what I had and waited for all the bugs to. be worked out.

Hello 👋

Logan T2

Have you fixed any problems that you have had in the past?

Everything is going wrong and you keep telling people here.

You can ask but still have you fixed ANY Problems?

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