{"id":52,"date":"2023-08-13T17:08:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/13\/quick-tip-for-older-subarus\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:08:33","slug":"quick-tip-for-older-subarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/13\/quick-tip-for-older-subarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick tip for older Subarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>How to enable Bluetooth auto-connect<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a new-to-me 2013 Subaru Forester, base model, no frills. The radio is fine, but with one bothersome issue &#8211; every time I start the car I need to manually connect (not pair, just select and connect) my iPhone. I finally figured out the issue, and it\u2019s an odd one. It turns out this old radio has two competing Bluetooth systems. The first, and how I had my phone paired initially, is accessed by the on-screen menu and radio buttons. The second is accessed through voice control, using the steering wheel voice button. Neither system is aware of the other\u2019s Bluetooth connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that a previous owner\u2019s phone was still in the voice-activated system, and had priority. Once I navigated the voice system to delete that phone pairing, and paired my phone through the same voice interface, auto-connect started working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to enable Bluetooth auto-connect I have a new-to-me 2013 Subaru Forester, base model, no frills. The radio is fine, but with one bothersome issue &#8211; every time I start the car I need to manually connect (not pair, just select and connect) my iPhone. I finally figured out the issue, and it\u2019s an odd &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/13\/quick-tip-for-older-subarus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quick tip for older Subarus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,8,9],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-bluetooth","tag-subaru","tag-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"twentyseventeen-featured-image":false,"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jim","author_link":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/author\/jperry_pw1vri\/"},"uagb_comment_info":17,"uagb_excerpt":"How to enable Bluetooth auto-connect I have a new-to-me 2013 Subaru Forester, base model, no frills. The radio is fine, but with one bothersome issue &#8211; every time I start the car I need to manually connect (not pair, just select and connect) my iPhone. I finally figured out the issue, and it\u2019s an odd&hellip;","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jperry.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}