iPhone 16 Bluetooth Issues With Toyota RAV4
Lauri returned her iPhone 16 Plus, replacing it with an iPhone 15 Plus. She was driven to such a seemingly nonsensical move by insurmountable problems getting the iPhone 16 Plus to pair via Bluetooth with her 2019 Toyota RAV4. The iPhone would initially pair with the RAV4 with no problem, but when she turned the car off and back on, the iPhone would connect and disconnect repeatedly. It continued that for a few minutes each time, sometimes managing to keep the connection and other times failing. Toggling Bluetooth off and back on sometimes helped, but not reliably.
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On the other side of the equation, the Toyota technician told Lauri that this is a known issue between the iPhone 16 and the RAV4 in particular, and said that Apple would have to address the issue before Toyota could update its system.
Others have experienced similar problems when pairing an iPhone 16 with RAV4 models from 2016 and 2022. A Reddit thread identifies conflicts between the iPhone 16 and several other Toyota models that presumably share a similar head unit.
Note that this is when using Bluetooth audio, not CarPlay.
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