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#1 ·
My new iPhone 7 works great via Bluetooth with my UConnect '15 JGC Summit.
Just like before.
Where I do have a problem is connecting via USB.
Once I plug in the USB, the Album Art shows up on the UConnect screen but the sound switches over to the iPhone 7 speakers.
The only way to charge the iPhone while listening to my music seems to be via Bluetooth.
Each time I try to listen via the USB in the front console the sound comes from the iPhone 7 speaker rather the the HK system.
 
#2 ·
Someone posted an issue like this recently (within last month or so). And they said it had something to do with having no play lists. Once he created a playlist the issue went away. Not sure if it was iPhone7 but it sounds similar.
 
#3 ·
Should of gotten an S7 Edga instead...
 
#4 ·
Lol jk
 
#5 ·
That was me. Posted the same issue not too long ago. I cleared all my Apple purchased music in the Music app because I now exclusively listen on Spotify. Also not enabling streaming via cellular data for the Music app does the same.

This causes the iPhone iOS to disable the USB audio apparently and route all other audio to Bluetooth.

The solve is to download at least a song in the Music app. Then you can now listen again through the USB port with any other app using audio. Oddly enough.


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#9 ·
Glad to have helped!
 
#10 ·
Anybody else having issues with their iPhone 7 disconnecting from their 8.4AN uconnect system. This has happened to me twice in 3 days since getting my iPhone 7. I will be streaming music and the music will stop. I look at the uconnect screen and the phone shows no service. Then it disconnects completely. The iPhone says it is still connected to uconnect. I have to run off Bluetooth on the phone and turn it back on again to reconnect.
 
#11 ·
Lots of iPhone 7 users have Bluetooth issues.

I'm using a 2017 uconnect and iPhone 7 was fine. But I had issues with a Bluetooth Radar Detector (Valentine One) and I installed iOS 10.1 Beta 2.

Beta 1 is public. Beta 2 is for developers.

Beta 1 might help too or you can just sit tight until Beta 2 is public or 10.1 is released.

So far Beta 2 has fixed my Bluetooth issue with the Radar Detector.

I've only had the phone since Monday and Beta 2 since Wednesday.
 
#13 ·
My problem with my iPhone 7 and uConnect (RHR radio; 2011 GC Overland) is not so much the phone pairing but the Bluetooth audio stream. Phone calls and even Siri come over fine, but when I try to stream my iPhone 7's music library or stream Pandora, nothing. I have the latest iOS 10.1 update, I've unpaired the two from the vehicle side and the phone side, then repaired. Still the same. Sometimes I get just the phone icon with a green check mark and not the audio speaker icon and sometimes I get both icons checked. And when both are checked the audio stream still won't work. Anybody have some insight to this issue? Any input would be appreciated.
 
#15 ·
I have a 2017 Summit and iPhone 7 plus with 10.1.1 and just tried USB and it plays fine. I usually use a USB Stick.

I brought the Music App up on the phone, clicked Songs, clicked a song and it played on the Car.

I could not initiate it from the Radio. But once the App was up I could control it with the Radio. Shuffle, Next, Prev etc. all worked.

As soon as I plug it in, the USB Icon changes to a iPod.

You might try another cable.
 
#16 ·
I would force close all apps and restart. Then play a song from the Apple Music app via USB. When that works I would close and play your usual song from your own app.


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#17 ·
Did that already, doesn't help. The funny thing is that not only is the phone recognized via USB, I can browse through my songs, and even control them (play/pause), but any audio comes through the phone itself and not the car speakers.I tried to manually force switch the audio source from the phone, but the only audio source possibility is the phone, not the car.
 
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