After the ios 18 beta 2 update, when listening to music in carplay, the sound quality is very bad and I can't turn down the volume of the music. it acts like a voice assistant instead of music. when turning the volume down and up, it's like adjusting the volume of the voice assistant when it should turn up the volume of the music. So instead of music, it acts like the voice assistant is activated.
I have a similar issue. My CarPlay is a wired connection and I get NO sound. No music, podcasts, Siri reading texts… I can see it on the screen but nothing else.
Same issue here. I had it with beta 1 and it could be fixed with a reboot of iOS or the carplay device. However this issue persists after reboot
It seems to fix itself after a while this is only for CarPlay wireless I have no clue with wired connection it took about like 5-7 minutes to fix
I have the same problem with this beta update. Music on Carplay no sound on all apps, Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube music
While listening to music via CarPlay (with discussed issues), you may try to make a phone call. After ending the call, iPhone will switch with an accordance to the Bluetooth profile. As a result, music quality should be fixed.
I realized that when I have this problem, on the iPhone the sound comes in mono. It only comes out of the handset. It doesn't come from the speaker, it's like I'm making a phone call.
reboot does not work but I will try the method mentioned by @Robustez. making a phone call while listening to music may be the solution.
by the way, when you make a phone call while listening to music, sometimes the music starts playing behind the phone call. has anyone experienced this problem? (ios 17 had the same problem)
I only get audio from the phone.
non-CarPlay Bluetooth works fine.
when the phone connects to CarPlay audio is only available from the phone speaker. ( ie not via the car stereo)
same here, sometimes it plays music through a poor "Voice" sound, and others it will just play through phone. unplugging and plugging in multiple times will eventually fix it. Also noticed Spotify goes missing sometimes.
I also have this issue on a wire carplay and i think the fastest way to fix it is to clic and hold power to open siri and then just cancel siri it will make carplay crash and restart and then evrything work
I have the same troubles With the sound. In both cars apple car play isn’t working. BMW CarPlay is wireless and the Kia Car Play is wired. I can connect it, but everytime when I want to listen to music or something else the sound comes from my phone instead of my car speakers. I can control everything via CarPlay but the sound is just coming from my phone…connect and disconnect isn’t helping. Restarting my phone isnt fixing the problem too
I found that simply activating the voice assistant fixes the issue
Same issue as above - wired connection in my Toyota Rav4 - displays as if in CarPlay mode but sound comes from iPhone instead. Takes a bit of wrangling - namely physically removing the USB and reinserting it a few times and eventually it will come back over the car speakers instead.
Yeah I’m having the same problem as mentioned by others but apple carplay doesn’t display as an option for me to even use. I plug in my iPhone in my 2023 Mazda 3.
I wonder if this is related to the volume bug in iOS18 that got worse in beta 3. i have noticed when you open an app that has audio it will work at first but if the app gets interpreted by anything (Ads / Notifications) or if you leave the app to switch to another then the audio will just stop. Since it seems to effect all apps it could be what is happening here, or even carplay is adding to it.