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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Would be helpful to know which car model. You may just search for the model and keywords that describe your issue and see if others are complaining as well.

What I think you might be saying is you’re connecting over Wi-Fi to your car’s hotspot, and then you’re losing all data? If that’s the case, I’m guessing your car is broadcasting a WiFi SSID, but there’s a feature unlock to use it as a client. Meaning your car itself will use it to send/receive data, but WiFi clients is another thing they want you to pay for.

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Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The car is an Audi.

Have not seen other complaints on line about the issue.

I am not using Wifi. The car will search, just like an iphone, for nearby wifi sources. But I am not doing that

The car itself has a hot spot that you can activate. And it activates fine. When I go to wifi on my iphone I can see the hotspot (I gave it a name) and the phone easily connects to the hotspot. The Wifi symbol pops up on my iphone

You do HAVE TO pay for the hotspot just as you said in your comment, but they give you several months FREE.

Trying to figure out why I can use the hotspot or apple car play fine, but never both at the same time

Hope this answers the questions that you asked

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- just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ah, okay. So this is either your device, or the entertainment system getting confused, most likely.
  
  Some clarifications:
  
  Car Play features work over wired or Bluetooth, but not WiFi.
  
  Connecting over WiFi should give you data to your phone, so if that works, it’s doing its job.
  
  Your phone will use either Bluetooth for audio, or a wired connection for deeper integrations like Maps and such. Car Play doesn’t do data exchange over Bluetooth in that way on either Android or iOS. Some may do contacts or phone control, but not sending streams of data over the WiFi.
  
  So if you want the audio to work AND you want to connect to the hotspot, you’d use either wired USB or BT for the audio portion, and then the Hotspot just gives your phone data.
  
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  - Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That was a great explanation that even I was able to understand. Thank You. And the link you provided was also very informative
    
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