That’s your car manufacturer, not apple. My Honda doesn’t have a simple mode. i know chevys do and it’s super annoying.
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CarPlay Proof that no Apple VP uses Carplay
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My iPhone will start auto-playing music over Bluetooth or CarPlay, regardless of the make or model. New BMWs, new GMs, old VWs, new Toyotas, aftermarket units, If I specifically have used Apple Music within the last short bit — recent enough that it’s still in my app switcher and if I switch to it, it doesn’t have to refresh — music will always auto-play on vehicle startup. However, if Apple Music is closed or it’s been long enough that its frozen in memory, it doesn’t.
Regardless of people’s personal experiences, this is the expected behavior of the Music app. If the Music app is active, even if nothing is playing, it’s supposed to start auto-playing music. This has been the expected behavior for years, even before Apple Music existed. I remember my 5 on iOS 6 functioning this way as well.
I don’t use AM very often (I have access since I have Apple One, but I mostly use Spotify) so the “issue” is super rare for me, overall.
Regardless of people’s personal experiences, this is the expected behavior of the Music app. If the Music app is active, even if nothing is playing, it’s supposed to start auto-playing music. This has been the expected behavior for years, even before Apple Music existed. I remember my 5 on iOS 6 functioning this way as well.
I don’t use AM very often (I have access since I have Apple One, but I mostly use Spotify) so the “issue” is super rare for me, overall.
Is this even an issue with CarPlay itself in the first place? Are people assuming CarPlay is at fault because that's what happens to be displaying on the screen? In my experience (along with what others have posted on here) it seems to depend on the brand/vehicle.
CarPlay in my parents' GMC vehicle does not auto-play music. My Chevy vehicle, on the other hand, auto-plays music every time I plug my iPhone in...and it doesn't even have CarPlay. I always force quit my apps and rarely ever leave the Music app open/paused in the background, so music auto-playing in my vehicle isn't because the Music app was open.
When I first realized music didn't auto-play in my parent's car, I thought it was because of CarPlay being smarter and couldn't wait to get a new vehicle with CarPlay myself...but I've learned that isn't exactly the case as I've had mixed experiences later on with car rentals.
CarPlay in my parents' GMC vehicle does not auto-play music. My Chevy vehicle, on the other hand, auto-plays music every time I plug my iPhone in...and it doesn't even have CarPlay. I always force quit my apps and rarely ever leave the Music app open/paused in the background, so music auto-playing in my vehicle isn't because the Music app was open.
When I first realized music didn't auto-play in my parent's car, I thought it was because of CarPlay being smarter and couldn't wait to get a new vehicle with CarPlay myself...but I've learned that isn't exactly the case as I've had mixed experiences later on with car rentals.
My car with CarPlay starts with whatever I left it on. So if I turned off the car with the music paused, it will be paused the next time I start it.
For those of you that do have this issue, does a Personal Automation in Shortcuts work to pause the music right away when CarPlay connects?
Trigger: When CarPlay Connects
Action: Pause music
I suppose there could be a timing issue and might need to put a Wait action in there first.
I was hoping to do something similar for my non-CarPlay vehicle (when Music app opens as the trigger), but apparently it just auto-plays music without opening the app (it's not in the background or app-switcher).
Trigger: When CarPlay Connects
Action: Pause music
I suppose there could be a timing issue and might need to put a Wait action in there first.
I was hoping to do something similar for my non-CarPlay vehicle (when Music app opens as the trigger), but apparently it just auto-plays music without opening the app (it's not in the background or app-switcher).
Can we not keep eroding the definition of "proof", please?
Apple must have implemented the simple mode in order for the car to switch over to it in the first place. All I'd like is an option to disable it when I have a passenger.
I have two Kenwood HU's in my vehicles: a KMM-BT5xxx in my Honda, and an older KMM-BT7xxx in my Ford.
I am usually listening to an audiobook from Scribd.
The BT5 utilises an AptX BT interface, and intermittently (the regularity of such frequency leads me to use the word 'obnoxiously'), it defaults to playing the last-listened item in my music library.
The BT7 regularly just sits there, until I poke it.
I merely expect that the handoff would mirror my current consumption, and not insist that I default to something I rarely consume.
I have become increasingly-dispondent that the neural-engine in my phone is not as smart as I thought it was *shrugs*
I am usually listening to an audiobook from Scribd.
The BT5 utilises an AptX BT interface, and intermittently (the regularity of such frequency leads me to use the word 'obnoxiously'), it defaults to playing the last-listened item in my music library.
The BT7 regularly just sits there, until I poke it.
I merely expect that the handoff would mirror my current consumption, and not insist that I default to something I rarely consume.
I have become increasingly-dispondent that the neural-engine in my phone is not as smart as I thought it was *shrugs*
I came for the proof, and stayed for the comments.
I am not stealing different car models to know about these issues. It doesn’t happen in my car and I drive lot of rentals frequently. Submit an issue with apple and your car manufacturer.
Apple VP's are probably being driven around.
If I was playing music when I shut the car off, it will start when I plug it back in but it isn't like how the op describes it. When was the last time your car head unit was updated? Is your phone up-to-date and rebooted recently?
An 11 inch screen (with Waze running), music playing and the summer heat is overheating my phone, even with the air conditioning running.
If I was playing music when I shut the car off, it will start when I plug it back in but it isn't like how the op describes it. When was the last time your car head unit was updated? Is your phone up-to-date and rebooted recently?
An 11 inch screen (with Waze running), music playing and the summer heat is overheating my phone, even with the air conditioning running.
I haven't had this happen using CarPlay, but I have had it happen when I've got an iPhone plugged into a USB port on a car that is using it in some kind of "iPod" mode. It's a trash experience. What I noticed was that it would default to the very first alphabetically sorted artist in my music. There was even a completely silent track you could buy on iTunes with an artist starting with "Aaaaaaa..." just to compensate for this lame bug.
But as others have pointed out, CarPlay or not, it's more to do with the car's poor interface than it is to the iPhone, which is just obeying whatever dumb default command the car is sending out.
I have the Atlas. Volkswagon has a setting on there radio to set volume on start up you can also can have it turn down when vehicle is in reverse.
I have a list of problems though first with wireless CarPlay there is no option to pick the phone when my wife and I are in the car. It is a free for all this is probably more of an car issue then apple. If you turn off Wi-Fi to kick your device off it doesn't allow it and forces the toggle back on. When my wife connects and she gets on Facebook or tiktok then it plays over Carplay there should be a list of apps that allowed to play audio over Carplay so this can be prevented. On my Mazada with wired Carplay in general when the volume is up it will blast. With wired I have had it play apple music randomly it seems like when you plug in the phone it acts different and this has happened with iOS 17 beta. When I am sitting at my children's practices or picking them up from school and you are watching video content the delay on both wired and wireless is horrible it never matches the video.
One thing you can do to stop the random song playing is use shortcuts. When my phone connected to carplay I have it connect to waze because I want to see the cops. In the morning it tells me the weather, asks where I am heading, tells me the eta, Then plays a podcast and after the podcast is over asks me if I like to play Music.
Never promised anything!!! ;P
I'm more so saying (with comic hyperbole) that it is obvious CarPlay isn't utilized by Apple's higher-ups or else it would have more attention to it.
If you go to TheDauterive's comment earlier on this thread, you can see it's definitely an issue.
I've had various iPhones (all setup as new), various CarPlay enabled cars, and this has happened a lot (if not most of the time). I get some people want music playing when they start their car, but it should be optional.
This used to happen to me, but if I stop the music before turning the car off the issue goes away.
Before I figured this out, the one track that would always autoplay was Cheech & Chong’s Acapulco Gold “ No stems or seeds that you don’t need, new Acapulco Gold is the baddest weed” really loud.
Before I figured this out, the one track that would always autoplay was Cheech & Chong’s Acapulco Gold “ No stems or seeds that you don’t need, new Acapulco Gold is the baddest weed” really loud.
I have a Kia and it doesn’t have this issue at all. It will auto play if I have or recently had music playing before getting in the car but then it will resume playing what I was playing.
I had the very strong belief when I clicked on this title that there would be no such proof. So in a sense you've met my expectations.
I’d like to thank this thread for making me feel much less positively about Apple CarPlay and helping me understand why a major player like GM would abandon it.
3 different Hondas with CarPlay and never had this issue. Maybe it's in your car's settings? Kinda like how you have to turn Maps down while it's talking because your car separate's the different audios out?