If Your iPhone’s USB-C Won’t Plug into the Infotainment Socket

Why Won’t My USB-C plug into the Car for CarPlay?

Sometimes in life, things happen that cause you to question your own sanity, and that of those around you. Sometimes, you just have to laugh.

Remember when it always took 3 goes to get a USB in? The first way, the second way, and the right way, and it happened every time. USB-C was set to change all this. When the Euro zone insisted the recalcitrant Apple dispatch their awful curse-o-plug to the dustbin of history, the universally fabulous USB-C unthethered iPhone owners everywhere. They now joined Airpod and Mac users in a throng of hoorahs. On a wider stage, the Applephiles could nick a cable, knowing it would work.

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ABOVE: iPhones, CarPlay, and USB-C sockets

In due course, the mini-USB and micro-USB devices will vanish, for better or for worse, leaving one cable to suit all.

Filled with the joy and anticipation of collecting this week’s review car, I tackled the iPhone pairing with the gusto grand Prix virgin. The marriage was to be one fraught with angst. For 20 minutes I twiddled and cajoled, but no amount of swearing prompted the CarPlay dance to commence.

Picture it: It was late in the day and the light was deceptively dim.

I fumbled the outlets, with each fondle finding %uck-all joy. I noticed the top socket to be a little loose. “Damn and blast,” I uttered. The hapless Mazda2 was in my bad books, and the review would suffer. Would I spend the week, eyes glued to a vent-mounted phone holder for navigation and Bluetooth for music? What, is this the tenth century!

Outraged, I fetched the cable hence.

It was then that I felt a little sideways movement. In fact, once reinserted, the USB-C slid several millimetres either way. It dawned on me that my run of wireless CarPlay and USB-C-equipped test cars had lulled me into a soporific stupor.

I was trying to plug a USB-C into a USB-A.

Adaptor fitted, my directions were once emblazoned across a disappointingly  small infotainment system.

The moral of the story

Fire up the phone torch before wasting a substantial part of your day. Don’t blame the car, don’t blame the tools. Carry a couple of converters, just in case. Above all, don’t swear like a rum-runner when you’ve parked outside a car centre for the abandoned and bewildered.

TOP TIPS

1: If there is more than 1 USB, make sure you are using the one that connects to the system, not merely a power USB

2: Check you have the right cable, and that the cable isn’t faulty