My family has a 2013 and 2014 Honda Accord. They both are from just before when cars started to support CarPlay. As such, they connect to the car’s bluetooth via Honda’s proprietary “HandsFreeLink” (don’t get me started on this ).
Whenever I connect my iPhone 16 to these cars via Bluetooth, every time, Apple Music connects and starts playing the very first alphabetically listed song in my music collection (which happens to be Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” - a fine song, by an all time artist but I digress…). Its like I’m Bill Murry waking up every day to “I Got You Babe” in ‘Groundhog Day’.
My question is, does anyone know if this something I can change via a setting in Apple Music or on my phone? I have set up a Shortcut so that whenever my phone connects to “HandsFreeLink” it starts another Music Playlist but there is a lag in when this kicks in so my Johnny Cash song is well started by then.
That is odd - regardless of which car I get in, as soon as the bluetooth connects, the iphone will just seemingly pick a random song. It’s not the last one I was playing either. And it’s occasionally a song that I don’t even know. This does not apply if I was in the middle of listening to a podcast though; Overcast always picks up wherever it left off.
I have the same behavior with multiple iPhones (XS and 16 Pro) and multiple cars (Subaru Outback and Winnebago Solis Pocket). I occurs when connecting via Bluetooth or a USB cable. Neither has CarPlay, but I do have an external CarPlay unit in the Winnebago.
I too have had this problem occasionally with some phone/car combinations. I got tired of Africa by Toto. So I purchased A a a a a Very Good Song (Silent Track).
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