My CarPlay stopped connecting thru Bluetooth… tried forgetting the phone and reconnecting but nothing. Works in my f150 so I’m sure it’s not the phone.. anyone else had this issue?

 

Make sure the car's wi-fi can connect to your phone.

 

Should have mentioned that the phone connects and works fine Bluetooth. CarPlay only works now when plugged in thru the usb

 

CarPlay and Android Auto require wi-fi to work wirelessly. CarPlay uses Bluetooth to negotiate the wi-fi connection. That is why I suggest making sure that your car can connect to your phone's hotspot.

 

The are a lot of troubleshooting steps from this previous thread, including screenshots: https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-connects.html

 

WiFi and Bluetooth both connect devices wirelessly. But in very different ways. They have no shared radio frequency reliant processes. While both are wireless technology that exist in very different universes. Consider a DVD and a CD that look the same, do similar things, but are very different.

Bluetooth connects two devices to each other over relatively short distances. 30' +/-. This is called pairing. It only requires both devices be Bluetooth enabled and in close proximity. In our case, a Bluetooth phone and a 2021 or newer C8. It could be my Smart TV and a Bluetooth enabled Bose headset, To keep the TV sound private so I don't interrupt my wife's nap. Smart eh? I use my iPhone and Air Pods to listen to music everyday. These are Bluetooth pairings. For Car Play, your iPhone receives the Internet signal from your cell phone provider. This your paid data plan. Bluetooth allows the first device i.e. phone to encode/send/decode/stream the phone reception to the car. And inverse, receive/decode a transmission. Use one use both. The phone screen mirrors the Car Play screen. So the links are: Cell Provider Internet to Phone, Bluetooth phone to car.

Recall, 2020s do not have Bluetooth wireless functionality. Which is why you see posts from owners who have bought stand alone transmitters that are a wired device. You can connect your phone using a Lightning to USB A cable. Bluetooth was developed to eliminate the need for wires and cables between devices.

You can turn your car into a Wi Fi hotspot. Basically a mobile router. This requires a separate paid data plan, i.e. On Star Connected Services. But this is not a Bluetooth protocol.

Wi-Fi is a wireless technology used to connect computers, tablets, smartphones and other devices to the internet. In your home the Internet is received by satellite or cable then via a router Wi Fi broadcasts the ISP delivery wirelessly to devices in your house. Same way at a public Wi Fi hot spot like Starbucks, a library, etc. All those folks hunched over a laptop at the coffee bar nursing a small Latte are using the store's Wi Fi router. Wi Fi utilizes an Internet connection.

 

If your car is a 2020 it does not support wireless Car Play.

If 2021 or newer, settings / Bluetooth enabled on the phone showing On green on the slider? Go to Settings / Bluetooth / My Devices is My Chevrolet listed? If not you need to install it. Should have been done at delivery.

If you think you should be able to use it. Delete My Chevrolet from My Devices and pair the two again. A reboot of sorts.

 

every so often I have to go to settings > services > and end the Apple CarPlay service, so that it restarts

also, wifi connection is best, Bluetooth I think will only get you audio

 

While all that may be true, CarPlay requires wi-fi to project video from the phone to the car's infotainment system.

 

If the phone gets it the car screen gets it. Bluetooth is a encode/decode utility. It cares not what the data is.

 

Bluetooth does not have the bandwidth for wireless CarPlay video. Wi-fi is required to project video to the screen:
https://www.connectedcarlife.com/tec...-carplay-work/

 

My car is a 22. Everything worked perfectly… until it didn’t. Tried restarting, deleted devices, could this have something to do with the update? I kept ignoring it now when I check for updates it says there aren’t any.
love the technology till it acts up

 

That is simply not correct. As already stated, the screen mirroring of CarPlay (and Android Auto) REQUIRE the Wi-Fi connection. Bluetooth is fine for audio, phone calls, etc., but not for displaying stuff on the infotainment screen. If you don't believe this, get wireless CarPlay/AA running and then shutdown the Wi-Fi connection. CarPlay/AA goes away.

Also, contrary to your earlier statement (Recall, 2020s do not have Bluetooth wireless functionality), 2020's DO have Bluetooth but don't support wireless CarPlay/AA.

 

Some have reported that iOS 16 screwed up their wireless CarPlay.

 

And not only that - the CarPlay icon on the screen will be grayed out, and you will (I do anyway) get a message on you phone telling you to turn on WiFi to use wireless carplay.

 

As noted previously, here and in other thread, WIFI is required to support wireless carplay. Bluetooth must also be enabled. It is involved in establishing the WIFI connection between your car and phone. You can check your WIFI connections both on the phone, and in the car using various available screens in the car and on your phone. Below are some illustrations of how that looks. The purpose of the following sequence is to illustrate how you can verify the various possible WIFI connections with the car, your cell phones, and local WIFI networks. None of this requires OnStar. I do not have, and have never had an OnStar subscription for a data plan or any other OnStar Subscription. My car is 2021, with Wireless CarPlay capability - that I use all the time. It was delivered in June 2021. All the connections shown below are happening while my car is parked in the garage which has a wireless local network extender. And they are all concurrent - that is the connection are all happening at the same time. Obviously if I am not near my network, there will be no connection to the garage network. But its useful to see the capabilities of the car.

FIRST, HERE IS THE SYSTEM SCREEN SHOWING SOME OPTIONS TO VIEW - RELEVANT HERE WILL BE THE WIFI NETWORKS, WIFI HOTSPOT, and PHONE OPTIONS (AGAIN I DO NOT HAVE A WIFI HOTSPOT SUBSCRIPTION - THIS FEATURE IS INDEPENDENT OF A SUBSCRIPTION



NEXT, I SELECTED WIFI HOTSPOT FROM THE PREVIOUS SCREEN, AND HERE IS THE RESULTING DISPLAY. ON THIS SCREEN YOU CAN SEE THE CAR'S WIFI NAME, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE TWO DEVICES CONNECTED. IMPORTANT - IF YOU LOOK UNDER WIFI ON YOUR PHONE, WHEN YOU ARE CONNECTED AS SHOWN HERE, YOU WILL SEE IT SHOWS THE HOTSPOT NAME. I WILL SHOW THIS FURTHER DOWN. THE TWO DEVICES ARE MY IPHONE AND MY WIFE'S IPHONE. MY PHONE IS THE PRIMARY PHONE AND THE WIFI CONNECTION TO IT SUPPORTS CARPLAY. MY WIFE'S PHONE IS SECONDARY. THE CONNECTION TO IT WILL SUPPORT PHONE OPS. AND, IF I DISABLE THE WIFI ON MY PHONE, CARPLAY WILL BE SUPPORTED VIA THE WIFI CONNECTION TO THE SECONDARY PHONE. THE SECONDARY PHONE DOES NOT HAVE TO USE A WIFI CONNECTION PHONE FOR PHONE OPS- THEY CAN BE SUPPORTED VIA BLUETOOTH.



FROM THE PREVIOUS SCREEN, I NOW SELECT THE CONNECTED DEVICES, AND THE RESULTING SCREEN, BELOW, SHOWS THE TWO DEVICES. ONE IS ANDYBUMP'S PHONE. THE OTHER IS MY WIFE, ANDREABUMP'S (SHE IS NOT A FORUM PARTICIPANT). NOTE THAT THEY ARE BOTH CONNECTED, AT THE SAME TIME, VIA THE WIFI PROTOCOL, AND SHOWN UNDER THE WIFI HOTSPOT OPTION IN THE CAR. A SUBSCRIPTION TO ONSTAR IS NOT NEEDED FOR THIS.



NOW, HERE IS THE PHONE VIEW, ALSO SHOWING, UNDER WIFI, THE CONNECTION TO THE CAR WIFI. NOTE THE NAME MATCHES WHAT SHOWED UP IN THE CAR UNDER WIFI HOTSPOT. I SHOW THE SCREEN FROM MY PHONE AND MY WIFES PHONE TO SHOW THAT BOTH PHONES ARE CONNECTED TO THE CAR VIA WIFI AT THE SAME TIME. FURTHERMORE, THE CAR ITSELF IS ALSO CONNECTED TO THE WIFI NETWORK IN THE GARAGE, WHICH I WILL SHOW NEXT.





BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SCREEN, I NOW SELECT WIFI NETWORKS. AND HERE IS THE RESULTING DISPLAY. NOW YOU CAN SEE THAT MY CAR IS ALSO CONNECTED TO THE LOCAL WIRELESS NETWORK IN THE GARAGE - WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BOTH OF OUR PHONES ARE ALSO CONNECTED VIA THE WIFI. THE LOCAL NETWORK HAS ACCESS TO INTERNET, AND AS LONG AS THE CAR IS IN THE GARAGE, IT IS ALSO CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET VIA THIS ROUTE. AND IT CAN DOWNLOAD OTAs VIA THIS ROUTE. WHEN ITS NOT IN THE GARAGE, IT CAN STILL DOWNLOAD OTAs VIA THE CAR'S BUILT IN 4G CAPABILITY. NO ONSTAR SUBSCRIPTION IS REQUIRED FOR ANY OF THIS. THE OTHER AVAILABLE NETWORKS SHOWN ON THE SCREEN ARE NEIGHBORS NETWORKS. IT CONNECTS TO MINE BECAUSE I ENTERED THE NETWORK PASSWORD.




OK, GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SCREEN, THIS TIME SELECTING PHONES, IT ALSO SHOWS THAT TWO PHONES ARE CONNECTED. ONE IS ANDYBUMP'S PNONE, THE OTHER IS MY WIFE, ANDREABUMP'S PHONE. THEY ARE BOTH CONNECTED VIA WIFI, AS THE PREVIOUS SCREENS HAVE ESTABLISHED, BUT NOTE THAT MINE IS SHOWN AS SUPPORTING CARPLAY, MY WIFE'S IS SHOWN AS SUPPORTING INCOMING AND OUTGOING CALLS.

 

Considering I'm having CarPlay issues across all my vehicles with OEM head units, it has to be something with the combination of both. I have no issues in my Z06 that has an aftermarket head unit.

 

222 miles on my 04…. So my experience was similar … was fooling around on app and thought I would turn off Wi-Fi on car, once I got in …no CarPlay … so I turned back on ( apparently a delay in when it updates. The net day …still no car play, yes Bluetooth was active but apparently it needs both, also apparently you break it regardless if you turn on Wi-Fi or not. Removed Veni from CarPlay on phone also deleted phone from vehicle. Repaired phone and then added vehicle to CarPlay …. Back to normal ..hope this helps