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With my gen1 and iPhone using Bluetooth, I found that starting the car and waiting 30-40 seconds before trying to change audio source to Bluetooth and hit play on the phone causes audio to flow every time. Any time I hurry it, the music doesn't work. But a workaround when you get into this state is to swipe up from the bottom, swipe right to left to get to music, and in the lower right is a triangle where you can select iPhone then back to the volt for audio out, and the music should play.I've had my 2017 Volt since November and love it. Besides the service it needed due to blown fuse at 1500 miles, my only gripe is that about 30% of the time there's no sound when I play music through my iPhone. Doesn't matter if it's plugged into the charge cord or not. Just - nothing. If I have flexibility in timing sometimes I will pull over, turn the car off and on, and try it again, and sometimes that works. I haven't found any specific pattern or circumstances that exist when it doesn't work. I just cross my fingers now when I turn the car on that I can stream music through my phone.
Is this an iPhone problem, or a Volt problem?
I blame the crappy infotainment system. I had a Nissan Altima car rental over the Christmas holidays and just loved hopping into the car, starting it, and the car remembered my last audio source and streamed music from my phone almost instantly. why can't GM be on par with that?