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BenBritzke

24' Wireless Apple CarPlay and Spotify Sound issues

Occasionally, for seemingly no reason at all, I will have consecutive days where it seems like the whole bass range for all of my songs disappears, and the sound quality for all the songs is diminished.

I have the bass cranked to 9 on the infotainment menu, and use Spotify's equalizer to push it even further. I have read that CarPlay tries to circumvent any in-app equalizers, and am wondering if this is an unavoidable glitch.

I know that CarPlay establishes the connection with Bluetooth and then swaps over to wireless. And, as far as I can remember, the car shows up as a connected network on my phone while using CarPlay. Since I have noticed this issue this time around, I am not seeing this wireless connection explicitly. Could this glitch also be the culprit?

No amount of powering off my phone, powering off the infotainment, or reconnecting my phone from scratch has fixed this issue. And typically it just goes back to normal seemingly at random after an arbitrary amount of time.

Just wondering if anyone else has run into this and found a fix? I can't seem to find any other posts related. It really puts a damper on my day when I can't be obnoxious around town with my music.

P.S. I have an iPhone 17 and am running the latest infotainment firmware.

Posted Jul 13, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

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