IPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 13 and our iPhone 16 Pro issues with CarPlay in 2023 XLE ICE and two 2024 Limiteds ICE.
1) Bluetooth connection is lost between 3 times per minute to once per hour. It may reconnect automatically seconds later or will not.
2) Voice texts and Siri commands are only playing out of driver’s side top of dash near A-pillar speaker. So if music is playing at anything other than low volume, you cannot make out the word spoken. Also in downtown in city of highway speeds, also cannot hear words clearly even if you adjust volume to max when words are spoken. For Google maps and Toyota maps, the voice instructions comes out of bothe driver’s side and passenger side top of dash speaker so no issue there. Toyota needs to do an update for all voice texts, Siri, etc to come out of bothe driver’s side right and left dashA-pillar speakers as it does for Google Maps and Toyota navigation.
3) Only with iPhone 16 Pro, when voice texting and vehicle is repeating my text verbally, it either doesn’t and it is completely silent or it repeats only the first 2-3 words maximum then silence. Less than 50% of the time does it work properly where it repeats my text verbally and give me the option both verbally and on screen to “Cancel”,” Change” or “Send”.
On iPhone 13 and iPhone 16 Pro we have, intermittently but regularly (more often with iPhone 16 Pro, get a voice message “cannot show the result to you while you are in the car” while trying to send a text or do other tasks like create a calendar appointment, etc in CarPlay. Also regularly get a voice message saying “it says” then silence when it should be reading a voice text.
Issues were frustrating before with IPhone 8 and iPhone 13 but now it is much worse with my new iPhone 16 Pro
