CarPlay with iOS 18 Broken

I have this same exact issue. It is driving me insane

It’s not the cable or anything else iOS problem mine worked fine same Apple usb connects then will only play on my phone. Apple car play is up on car screen but not playing through speakers

I got the shortest genuine spoke cable and it has been working.

lol I did the same thing flashlight seems like a cool feature but would rather have my CarPlay. Glad I t help

Hi, I’ve tried all of these. I always change the name of new iPhones after setting them up. I do not use VPN. I had both the car forget the phone and the phone forget the car.

Apple support did everything, said I had to take the Charger to dealer for firmware update. I swapped the cable so I could NOT use the adapter. Works fine.

I tried un-pairing and pairing again. "Sort of" works. Just won't load the album art now.

so you think IOS is fine because it works on 2 cars out of thousands (my guess)? That logic doesn't hold up.

THIS!! Thank you very much!!!! Had tried everything everyone has said here and everywhere else and have this a shot!!! BOOM! CarPlay is back working fine. Can’t thank you enough. 🙏🙏

I have same issue.

iPhone 13 Pro, after update to IOS 18, the entire car

system is restarting every few minutes.

This was the issue. Nice find and thanks!

This is what fixed the problem for me:

-Go to Settings

-Click Accessibility

-Make sure that Vocal Shortcuts is switched Off

100% Apple has confirmed

I concur: you need a USB-A 3.0 or better to USB-C to get the data to transfer. Our cables were USB-A 2.0 only... My Nikon DSLR USB-A 3.0 to USB-C worked just fine in both of our cars.

Turn WiFi off.