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Apple Carplay Issues

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This may have already been addressed in another thread.... I recently noticed that my phone will not sync with Apple carplay. I've never had this issue before and carplay always automatically synced whenever I plugged my phone into the USB port. I checked to make sure that my phone was still set up and the setting turned on in the carplay setting. Now, when I plug my phone into the USB port, nothing happens. Suggestions?
 

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I know there is a setting to turn CarPlay on or off in the settings. Make sure that it didn’t get turned off.
Next thing I would do is just unpair your phone and redo the setup. Hopefully that would just trigger CarPlay to setup again.
 

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st8 said:
I know there is a setting to turn CarPlay on or off in the settings. Make sure that it didn’t get turned off.
Next thing I would do is just unpair your phone and redo the setup. Hopefully that would just trigger CarPlay to setup again.
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Unfortunately, I tried all of that to no avail.
 

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I'd delete the profile on your phone and connect it up again. It should ask if you want to use CarPlay with it. If that still doesn't work, I'd do a factory reset for SYNC.

I'd also make sure the USB port is working by plugging in a thumb drive of MP3s or something.
 

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Yea go into the cars settings and delete all phones listed in the CarPlay settings of ford sync, then delete the car on your phone, and start over.
 

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Still no luck after doing all of this. Looks like a trip to the dealership is in order for the fourth time in three months.
 

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mcfarlrm said:
Still no luck after doing all of this. Looks like a trip to the dealership is in order for the fourth time in three months.
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Have you tried another iPhone? Have you tried a reset and restore of your iPhone? Do you have the latest sync version?
I would eliminate the most thing I could before going to a dealer and odds are the will want you to call support line first for sync.
 

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ZookaRoo said:
Have you tried another iPhone? Have you tried a reset and restore of your iPhone? Do you have the latest sync version?
I would eliminate the most thing I could before going to a dealer and odds are the will want you to call support line first for sync.
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Do you update the latest version of sync through your phone or the car?
 

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Updated the latest version of iOS and it did the trick.
 

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