tstafford

Most of the time CarPlay in my 991.2 works fairly nicely. However from time to time (seemingly randomly) it simply doesn't start up. Phone is connected but CarPlay never shows up. I know the connection is good because the phone beeps/charges. Sometimes rebooting the phone fixes it, sometimes restarting the car but occasionally I have to delete the car from phone and the phone from the PCM and reinitialize.

Does anyone else experience this? Do you have a better fix than deleting everything and starting fresh?

Thanks.
Tim

Gonzalo38

PJ Cayenne

Same issue here. Works like a charm on my 2017 VW Tiguan. Spotty on the 911.
By the way, so much easier telling Apple Maps where you want to go versus entering the address into the PCM.

Norsk

tstafford

I'll give that a try. I have a spare one from an Apple product, maybe that will be better.

mb1

I have the same problem once every few weeks. I have to reboot the phone to get it to work. It's mildly annoying, but not enough so to bring the car into the dealership to have it addressed.

mikeearly

The problem is not limited to the 911 - my 2017 Cayenne S has the sam problem. Unfortunately as mentioned earlier it is very intermittent and impossible to predict. What fails completely one time can work without a problem when trying to replicate the problem. My problems are - not connecting, having the music still play while placing a call, SIRI not asking who to call when pressing the phone button. However I have never had to reboot the phone -- usually just disconnect and reconnect seems to fix it but a couple of times this past year I had to shut off the car and restart it.

I'd love to figure out how to make these gremlins go away forever but since I have not been able to replicate a single failure I haven't bothered to try to tackle it nor to mention it to the dealer.....

FI Flyer

My dealer told me to use only real Apple cable. I did and found that it worked reliably. Unfortunately, the shortest Apple USB-Lightning cable is a half-meter long which is annoying to store in the center console box area.

I have recently ordered a short cable from Amazon that sounds like it might work:

CableCreation 0.5 Feet Short Lightning to USB Data Sync Cable [MFi Certified] Compatible with iPhone X, 8, 8 Plus, 7, 7 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, iPad, 15CM,

I am currently away from home and have not yet been able to test it out but it looks to me as though it should. Unlike many cables, it supports both the data and charging functions and is MFI certified. We'll see but it looks promising. Otherwise, all I can suggest is that you follow my dealer's advice which will fairly certainly work.

Gary JR

For me, with the car running, disconnect and reconnect the center console cord at the phone.

subshooter

I use a 6" cable and it works great. No issues with car play.

Benedict14

amet

StormRune

Very good advice on the cleaning ^^^. If you carry your phone in your pocket at times a lot of lint accumulation is guaranteed over time.

One thing to remember is that getting power isn't by itself a good indication that the connection is clean since the data and bandwidth used to verify cable certification and then supply power isn't significant. However, the high bandwidth required for CarPlay is very high and requires all of the connections to be robust.

911boy

All of a sudden Spotify won't show up on screen . can play through phone but not screen..................

grasmere