Apple car play not working correctly after IOS 18.1, curious if anyone else is having issues

[Jasper7821]

I've had the same issue with Spotify since going to IOS 18, sometimes the song will show as playing and timer counting down but nothing coming from the speakers. Stopping and starting the song (or skipping to the next) doesn't help.

In this case I normally have to hit "audio" on the truck menu then switch to FM radio (like when you switch to satellite), then try going back to Spotify, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

Alternate method 1 is to then switch to CarPlay music and start something from my songs on the iPhone, then once that's going switch back to Spotify.

Alternate method 2 is to restart the phone and then it's normally fine.

It's not really convenient doing all this while driving and is a bit of a distraction, but just a different distraction from the old days where we'd need to slip a folded matchbook to the side of an 8-track tape to get it to play correctly.

Yes it is kinda frustrating.
Also what I don’t like is when in Pandora, sometimes it only brings up 10 or so of my stations. Doesn’t matter if in in recents or collections. Then other times it loads all my stations in recents, but not in collections.

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