We've had a 2023 Corolla Hybrid for eight months now. There are so many things about this car that continue to baffle us (Safety Sense, automatic high lights, etc.), but the most confusing is CarPlay. We both have iPhones. Both are paired with the car. I have supposedly set the car to connect CarPlay to the most recent device. This almost never works as expected.
Sometimes when we are both in the car when it starts up CarPlay:
This morning we were headed back home. When we departed I had to manually connect my iPhone to CarPlay. We made a pit stop for fuel, coffee and toilet. We both got in the car at the same time. When the car started, neither device connected to CarPlay. So, we had to pull over. Manually select my iPhone and then proceed.
Is this really the way it's supposed to be?
Sometimes when we are both in the car when it starts up CarPlay:
- Connects to neither iPhone forcing a manual connect.
- Connects to a device that is not the most recent device.
- Connects to my iPhone, but still (sometimes) routes my wife's incoming phone calls through the car instead of through my wife's iPhone.
- Connects to neither device even though the device list shows that it is connected to one iPhone or the other.
This morning we were headed back home. When we departed I had to manually connect my iPhone to CarPlay. We made a pit stop for fuel, coffee and toilet. We both got in the car at the same time. When the car started, neither device connected to CarPlay. So, we had to pull over. Manually select my iPhone and then proceed.
Is this really the way it's supposed to be?