Unless I’m missing something, it’s not possible to have one phone connected via USB (CarPlay) and simultaneously connect a second phone via Bluetooth to stream audio. 

 

It’s a bit irritating as I’d like to connect my phone via USB to charge it and for CarPlay navigation, and let the control the music playlist from their phone via Bluetooth. Anyone managed to get this working?

I'm not sure where the aux input actually is but you should be able to use it while you are using car play. I believe it relies on the Bluetooth to transmit audio when in carplay

31 minutes ago, abaday789 said:

I believe it relies on the Bluetooth to transmit audio when in carplay

 

Not at all... it’s all done over the wire. Wireless CarPlay, on the other hand... but we don’t get that .

 

Ignoring the CarPlay bit, can you even have one phone connected for phone usage, and another for media, both via Bluetooth?

I've always found when using android auto even with Bluetooth turned off on my phone it will enable Bluetooth and auto sync/connect a device even if it hasn't been connected to the car's Bluetooth before

You can connect two phones to Bluetooth at the same time 

14 minutes ago, KKB24 said:

You can connect two phones to Bluetooth at the same time 

 

I am fully aware of that. But can you have one as the active phone and the other as the active media device? I’m not sure you can... but I’ve never tried.

39 minutes ago, WiggosSideburns said:

 

I am fully aware of that. But can you have one as the active phone and the other as the active media device? I’m not sure you can... but I’ve never tried.

Don't you set on the phone what services are operating on Bluetooth?

 

So on one you'd have the phone service running, on the other you'd have media streaming.

1 hour ago, WiggosSideburns said:

 

I am fully aware of that. But can you have one as the active phone and the other as the active media device? I’m not sure you can... but I’ve never tried.

 

Sorry I didn't know you were fully aware of that and yes you can have one for phone and one only for media!

1 hour ago, WiggosSideburns said:

 

I am fully aware of that. But can you have one as the active phone and the other as the active media device? I’m not sure you can... but I’ve never tried.

 

Yes you can. In the Bluetooth settings on the car you can pick which phone is connected for hands free and which for music. Pretty sure you can pick 2 phones to be connected simultaneously for hands free but only one for music. 

 

But it as soon as you plug a phone into CarPlay, Bluetooth audio is gone as an option for media input. 

This is my Bluetooth settings. I guess I would just change the tick boxes appropriately.

 

Hi, guys!

 

Can someone anser my question regarding carplay?

I currently have an android phone. But, since apple released ios 12 with 3rd party map functionality, I am now thinking of getting an iphone as a second phone.(need a second phone anyways)

My main phone will still be android phone. So, I want to know if I connect my iphone as carplay device and get a call to my android phone will the call get thru the cars multimedia? Or is it that if carplay is on, you can recieve calls only from one device?

I haven’t got an android and iOS device to try it, but I’d suspect that only the iOS device would be able to pass the call to the hands free system in the car.