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iOS 9 Broke Bluetooth connection in car
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Yes, you can choose 'Audi' or 'Phone' and it remembers it.
My iPhone connects OK with OS9 & 9.0.1 but there's a huge amount of 'static/noise' which makes it pointless...
Car: 2012 VW Golf TDI
iPhone 6s
Phone connects fine, Bluetooth Audio works, but the display shows "bluetooth audio" and it seems the A2DP profile is not enabled so I can't see text or skip music via the car audio controls/steering wheel.
This happened twice to me now and is inconsistent. Majority of the time it will display the track text and I can skip but occasionally it will just display it like there is no audio profile.
Stumped and frustrated.
iPhone 6s
Phone connects fine, Bluetooth Audio works, but the display shows "bluetooth audio" and it seems the A2DP profile is not enabled so I can't see text or skip music via the car audio controls/steering wheel.
This happened twice to me now and is inconsistent. Majority of the time it will display the track text and I can skip but occasionally it will just display it like there is no audio profile.
Stumped and frustrated.
check the setting in Settings>General>accessiblity>Call audio routing
what does it say? Ideally you should set it to automatic. You could try forcing it to bluetooth and see if it helps.
Just stumbled on this thread - sorry you guys are having problems, also..
I'm not part of the VW club - but, am wondering if any of you have experienced this..
Prior to iOS 9 - everything was fine. The kit I installed in my car auto-connected and disconnected perfectly every time. It would auto-route calls, music, nav, etc through the car stereo and all controls functioned as expected.
Since updating - connecting to the GTA CAR KIT I installed in my Honda doesn't happen 100% of the time as expected. I do not believe it's due to the kit (simply works over A2DP BT profile and works flawlessly (yet, sporadically - which is the issue)).
I do not know where along the line it happens - but, I end up with a 'blank' Bluetooth profile under my AirPlay settings that seems to get in the way of the kit connecting.
A reset will clear it - however, I cannot reset the phone every time I get out of the car and this profile pops up.
After a reset - the kit connects flawlessly the first time, every time. Then, somehow - things get 'off' and it won't auto-connect without some serious finagling (messing with stereo settings, toggling Bluetooth on/off and switching AirPlay settings, etc).
Sorry for the rambling - but, I'm at a loss for what to do and it's frustrating as hell.
I'm not part of the VW club - but, am wondering if any of you have experienced this..
Prior to iOS 9 - everything was fine. The kit I installed in my car auto-connected and disconnected perfectly every time. It would auto-route calls, music, nav, etc through the car stereo and all controls functioned as expected.
Since updating - connecting to the GTA CAR KIT I installed in my Honda doesn't happen 100% of the time as expected. I do not believe it's due to the kit (simply works over A2DP BT profile and works flawlessly (yet, sporadically - which is the issue)).
I do not know where along the line it happens - but, I end up with a 'blank' Bluetooth profile under my AirPlay settings that seems to get in the way of the kit connecting.
A reset will clear it - however, I cannot reset the phone every time I get out of the car and this profile pops up.
After a reset - the kit connects flawlessly the first time, every time. Then, somehow - things get 'off' and it won't auto-connect without some serious finagling (messing with stereo settings, toggling Bluetooth on/off and switching AirPlay settings, etc).
Sorry for the rambling - but, I'm at a loss for what to do and it's frustrating as hell.
I'm so happy I found your post! I was going crazy disconnecting and reconnecting the GTA kit trying to get the bluetooth to work. I didn't even think it could possibly be the phone. I kept thinking I plugged something in wrong, even though it would always work perfectly after I disconnected the unit from the back.
I am also getting the 'blank' bluetooth profile.
Have you contacted GTA support? Or found a workaround yet?
I will try to reboot my phone and see if that fixes it for me as well, but yeah that is not an ideal solution at all.
Not sure if this matters or not, but mine is for an Audi A4 2008.
I am also getting the 'blank' bluetooth profile.
Have you contacted GTA support? Or found a workaround yet?
I will try to reboot my phone and see if that fixes it for me as well, but yeah that is not an ideal solution at all.
Not sure if this matters or not, but mine is for an Audi A4 2008.
Just stumbled on this thread - sorry you guys are having problems, also..
I'm not part of the VW club - but, am wondering if any of you have experienced this..
Prior to iOS 9 - everything was fine. The kit I installed in my car auto-connected and disconnected perfectly every time. It would auto-route calls, music, nav, etc through the car stereo and all controls functioned as expected.
Since updating - connecting to the GTA CAR KIT I installed in my Honda doesn't happen 100% of the time as expected. I do not believe it's due to the kit (simply works over A2DP BT profile and works flawlessly (yet, sporadically - which is the issue)).
I do not know where along the line it happens - but, I end up with a 'blank' Bluetooth profile under my AirPlay settings that seems to get in the way of the kit connecting.
A reset will clear it - however, I cannot reset the phone every time I get out of the car and this profile pops up.
After a reset - the kit connects flawlessly the first time, every time. Then, somehow - things get 'off' and it won't auto-connect without some serious finagling (messing with stereo settings, toggling Bluetooth on/off and switching AirPlay settings, etc).
Sorry for the rambling - but, I'm at a loss for what to do and it's frustrating as hell.
slew of apple updates today including WatchOS 2.1 which on inital testing of 3 times seems to have ended my bluetooth conflict between the watch, phone and my Mazda Connect system. time will tell of course given this is after all bluetooth.
Its not just VW. Since moving past iOS 7, I have been able to play music, get map directions, and use Siri with my Honda. What I have not been able to do is keep bluetooth connected for the duration of a call. I can answer but the call goes from the car to the phone and back and forth unless....you turn off WiFi. No idea why but it was suggested a while back and it works. If I turn off WiFi when I get in the car, everything works fine. I swipe up from the bottom of the screen, hit the Wifi button and pull out of the driveway. I wish I didn't have to do that each time. 
My bad! Don't know how I didn't catch your post until now.
After a long go back and forth with GTA Car Kits - they were super helpful and reasonable by the way - they deemed it was something in iOS 9 that changed Bluetooth protocols, etc (they weren't too specific and its above my level of understanding anyway)..
But, they did extensive troubleshooting as did I and they agreed the blank profile, having to reset, etc was not satisfactory - so they came out with a 2nd gen model of the Pure Bluetooth kit for my Honda Pilot. Not exactly sure what models they did this for - possibly select models, possibly all of them - don't know.
They shipped it to me for free and all I did was ship the first one back.
End result - awesome. Works perfectly and as intended (I really hope upgrading to 9.3 tonight didn't break it again haha).
The one thing I wish is that the firmware on the GTA car kit was user upgrade able. Maybe avoid the run around if things go bad again.
After the upgrade, I'm having this problem in my Lexus and my truck with aftermarket Kenwood system in it. My wife is having the same problem with her iPhone and Prius. I've tried changing the accessibility settings from automatic to bluetooth, but that does not help.
If I get the timing right, I can manually change the audio device on the call screen, but that defeats the purpose of hands free.
This must affect literally millions of people, but why is there not more noise about this???
I left feedback for Apple on this as a serious bug.
Here's a whole page that discusses Bluetooth issues with iPhone 6 and newer (we have a consistent bluetooth drop/reconnect issue with our 2013 CRV and iPhone 6):
http://www.autoconnectedcar.com/201...-than-ios-8-in-cars-but-could-cause-problems/
http://www.autoconnectedcar.com/201...-than-ios-8-in-cars-but-could-cause-problems/
I'm having this issue too with my 2014 subaru. constantly dropping connection and pausing audio on its own. any fix yet???
I recently purchased a bluetooth receiver for my Mosconi car audio DSP and have been having a bunch of connectivity issues. iPhone would say it's connected but the music would still play through the iPhone speakers, try disconnecting, wouldn't reconnect. Really annoying. As a test, I paired up a Nexus 5 I had lying around and have had no connectivity issues so far so it definitely seems like it is something with the iPhone either the 6S model or iOS9.3.
The thing that gets me is isn't Bluetooth a standard protocol? I thought that if you developed a bluetooth device it had to meet standards which ensures compatibility between devices and brands?
The thing that gets me is isn't Bluetooth a standard protocol? I thought that if you developed a bluetooth device it had to meet standards which ensures compatibility between devices and brands?
Considering both my iPhone 6 and wife's iPhone 6S experience this on our Subaru, however I have zero issues my other car with an aftermarket Bluetooth head unit, I suspect the issue lies with the actual OEM car stereo. These can all be from one manufacturer or at least the Bluetooth chip is. Being that a few cars are being effected, not just one brand, and I have zero issues with my other head unit, I must conclude its the factory radios in our cars that have some kind of compatibility issue with the Bluetooth stack in iOS 9. My wife had no issues back on iOS 8.
My issue is with my 2014 Audi as well as 3 different Plantronics headsets, and a Bose mini sound link that I know has connection issues with my iPhone 6s and iPad Pro 9.7.