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iPhone 14 Pro Users Experiencing Issue With CarPlay Phone Calls
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It's clear you've never developed software at home, it's super easy to do so and far more productive than in the office and many places, mine included, have the metrics to back it up.
The problem with bugs and things, just like it's always been, boils down to project management types. Not devs, not QAs, project managers who want to release things on ridiculous timelines before they're ready and before testing is complete to make themselves look good.
Agreed. These "the sky is falling" posts are exhausting. New software/hardware has bugs, which is why updates happen. Updates happened in the past too before the internet which is why old products had revisions.
My wife just made the switch to iPhone. I set up her bluetooth and Carplay. It seemed fine when I was done. She went out yesterday and was only connected to bluetooth. She got several phone calls but the text on the screen said "My Number" and showed her picture. It did this at least four times. It was like the phone was somehow calling itself. She wasn't touching the phone when it happened.
Not experienced this using wired CarPlay. Every launch has a few glitches and IOS 16 got a major overhaul.
Because he’s a brilliant software engineer who’s high up in a company built on software engineering. There’s bugs with every single software release. I haven’t had any issues with iOS16 and my 14 Peo. Not with CarPlay, battery drain or otherwise
I've had zero issue with this so far. My call came through right away, no latency or bugs at all.
I have this issue with a 14 Pro and wireless carplay on a Ford Mach E. Looking forward to an update 
Also - first post on this forum, after years of lurking.
Also - first post on this forum, after years of lurking.
I experienced this yesterday. Glad to know what caused the problem. Hope it gets fixed soon.
I switched to just using the speakerphone on the phone itself, and that worked fine.
I switched to just using the speakerphone on the phone itself, and that worked fine.
Dynamic Island is not a “truly” brand new feature. It is just a visual refresh of notifications with an emphasis on hiding the hole punch. That’s it. Satellite connectivity is more of a new feature.
However there is nothing that says they must release a new OS every year in cadence with the phone. They could have spent their time finishing the rest of the OS, and then pushed Dynamic Island as 16.1 or whatever. The phone already launched with 16.0.1 just for it. The actual version number released with the phone doesn’t matter.
But instead they did the opposite. They spent a lot of time polishing this one fancy thing, and clearly did not have time to finish fixing major issues. So now we have beautiful Dynamic Island, and no GPS, camera problems, CarPlay issues, etc etc…
At least it wasn't several years ago when iPhones couldn't even properly connect to Bluetooth connected car stereos.
just to clarify we don’t have gps issues, nor camera problems nor CarPlay issues.
I’m glad you don’t but apparently enough people do that Macrumors has been talking about those things all week.
Haven’t heard about any problems with Dynamic Island. Well except for the Reachability thing. Which again was simply because the rest of the system wasn’t quite finished when it shipped.
Yep same every year every new iOS and iPhone. I am not having any of the reported problems on my 14 ProMax (battery drain, GPS issues-not using 16.1 beta either on new phone, camera shake issues, slow camera, airdrop not working, copy and paste bug, Quick-start perfect, activation under minute, data transfer worked no crashes, ). I have not tried a phone call with apple CarPlay yet — its wired only so I use the blue tooth and mazda connect to talk on phone, CarPlay more for trips.
Having said all that around iPadOS 15-6 to 15.7 (the update to give us features before iPadOS 16) my iPad developed the same thing with microphone which works to record video but making or answering FaceTime, messenger calls I can hear fine the person on other end but my voice is very very faint. So not sure but this CarPlay issue sound similar and wonder in the updates to 15.7 and beyond to 16.x they did not do something with microphones on iPads and iPhones? We do see bugs in the iOS upgrades that break hardware features wonder if this one might have some reality will be watching
I saw a poll on one thread and the gist (forget the sample size) was 70 percent no problems, another 10 percent little problems (mostly with activation and updating their info to new phone) and only 5 percent with any of these problems. Typical numbers to a new device made in 10s of millions. Yah if you are the 5 percent it is a real pain no doubt but in all things including technology there is no 100 percent perfection at least not in this reality.
I haven't encountered this with my 14 Pro Max but it has happened in the past with previous iPhones and a few Android devices as well. In my case I always thought it was the truck's fault.
Generally I agree except that no one expects 100 percent perfect, and in this case 5% of what is presumably a pretty small sample size is actually pretty high. I don’t think Apple is shooting for 5% of people having severe issues like activation or unusable camera. I don’t consider activation to be a small issue, so that means 15% even in this informal poll.
I’m not disagreeing with you, just from my perspective of how buggy 16 has been on my 13 Pro, I tend to see the problems more because I’m having other problems as well that aren’t even being reported on.
My only point is that Apple really needs to slow down with splashy unnecessary (necessary only for the sake of marketing) features like Dynamic Island, and have a Snow Leopard year where they just fix all the stuff they’ve rushed out the last few years. There’s plenty of low hanging fruit for a year like that. How about just letting me put my icons where I want them without enforcing a top left oriented grid? That should be quick and easy and get a standing ovation.