So all of the folks with ANY car stereo head unit that provides playlist control, who have been able to control / navigate playlists via our head unit touchscreen are now completely out of luck.
You are going to be forced to navigate the playlist by picking up and using the damn phone.
FWIW: My 2011 Chevy Cruze can still control playlists and iPod functions on my iPhone 5. All I did was replace my USB to 30-pin cable with a lightning cable. Done.
This probably works just fine on 2012 model too, and the 2013 model I believe does it over bluetooth, so that's moot.
But considering my car was built just after the iPhone 4 was released, and the software on it hasn't been updated since long before thunderbolt was a rumor, I think it's safe to say that there was a supported "right" way to interface with the iPod controls audio outputs all along, and various unsupported "wrong" ways. The right way ended up carrying over to the lightning interface, evidently. And car manufacturers who did it "wrong" now have angry users who'd like to blame Apple for this.
The irony is, I kinda wish iPod controls
weren't working in my car, or at least I could override it somehow. I can navigate my phone's touch screen faster than I can control it via the head unit, and I would say I'm probably MORE likely to get in a crash fiddling with the head unit than I would be flicking the screen with my finger or asking Siri to play something.
"No! Honestly officer, I wasn't making a call, I was just choosing a song...!"
Who uses their iPod by holding their phone to their ear?
What is the solution going to be? A third-party "black box" to connect between the iphone5, and our head units?
Probably. Or, a car mount and audio cable to hook your headphone up to your AUX input.