Car Play didn't start

[REMIX]

CarPlay can be like a woman at times. Fine most of the time, insane and unreasonable completely out of the blue for no reason whatsoever, then fine again. It's just one of those things in life you have to deal with.

Also, rebooting the phone can help.

 

[Fordraptorrrrrrrr]

It happens randomly in my 19 and there is no rhyme or reason why.

Same still happens kinda often not sure why

 

[RaptorKidd]

Experience the same issues in my 2019

 

[BlackRapt2019]

Happens to me in my '19 all the time. Ford tech told me it could be the cable, but I've used a few cables. No rhyme or reason. I have to reboot Sync to get it to work when I'm driving (On and Fwd buttons)

 

[Raptor911]

I updated sync about 3 weeks ago and it has not happened since as in Apple Carplay always comes up now when I plug in the phone.

Same still happens kinda often not sure why

 

[MDD]

I’ve had this happen and it seems that when it does I have started the truck at my house under heavy tree canopy in a garage and the GPS isn’t connected (you can see this in Sync Nav). When I plug the phone in under that condition I get no CarPlay till the truck is restarted later. Lock/unlock doesn’t matter and the cable is fine. If I wait till the truck is in clear sky it always connects.

 

[WOW]

I have a Samsung S7 phone and use Android Auto, but have the same issues. I updated to Sync 3.0 recently and it seemed to really help with this problem. You have to use the USB method. Updates do not work over wi-fi. Just like a PC reboot often. By the way who's idea was it to put MICROSOFT IN MY TRUCK!!! ARGG!!!

Other problems I have:

Maps sometimes switch to daylight mode while driving at night. You have to disconnect/connect your phone to correct.
When I start my truck at night the display comes on in day brightness (not always, just most of the time). I have to hit the up or down dim button and it corrects.

By the way my system was replaced under warranty once and the same problems persist.

 

[Woolaroc]

Happened again this afternoon. Maybe I'm plugging the phone it too fast after start up... I'll try to restart Sync next time with the power and ffw buttons.

 

[Steve Iribarne]

I have a 19....Happens to me all the time..

I'm an actual developer and so I have all sorts of tricks to try. So seems like there are three sets of issues:

I have the latest software version for iPhone X, Software Version 13.3
Just a note: Seems like the more updates from Apple the worse it gets.. I could be wrong, but that's what it feels like.

1. The iPhone is locked. Solution: Unlock phone
But then just to mess with me, it seems to think it's fun and games to startup and look normal and then freeze. So I can't select anything on the screen (console in truck, not iPhone). See unresponsive console below for behavior.

2. While truck is starting up ,plug iPhone in (which is unlocked) and put transmission into reverse (getting backup view) and then back to engage Drive on transmission and then screen is locked up.

3. While driving (short distance, usually I've just pulled out of parking lot) and plug the phone in, SYNC3 just ignores it.

** BUT I'VE HAD SYNC3 just freeze without iPhone **

This is what I call the unresponsive console.

So it can be cold or hot, rain or dry, humid (well as far as SF Bay Area Humid) it doesn't matter.. this damn SYNC3 freezes from time to time. Where you try to switch Sirius XM channels (preset) and it won't let you. If you try to switch to AM/FM that works but the user interface doesn't update.

So I'd day overall this interface SYNC3 (or 4 or 5 whatever version I have now) sucks. My 2013 had SYNC2(I think) and it worked flawlessly. Never had an issue....

I know not alot of detail but I think we can all agree that these guys have some bugs to fix.

 

[lka]

When mine stopped working today I didn’t reset sync, just said screw it. After 3 or 4 stops it started working again on its own.