u/CrestaLuna

Dealing with a weird one. Wireless CarPlay in my car keeps stuttering, sounds like a scratched record. It’s when I’m listening to something like Books using the text-to-speech feature (no music, just spoken audio).

Here’s the part that’s been bugging me: if I turn CarPlay off completely and listen to my Books over plain Bluetooth, it’s totally smooth, every time. Zero issues. So it really seems like it’s something specific to the wireless CarPlay connection and not my phone or the car’s Bluetooth in general.

I’ve tried re-pairing from scratch a few times, forgetting and re-adding the device, messing with some connectivity settings on the car’s side, even tried a background noise trick on my iPhone to mask silent gaps during speech, that helped a tiny bit but didn’t actually fix it. My car is a 2025 Lincoln Nautilus and only has wireless CarPlay, no wired option.

Anyone else run into stutter specifically on wireless CarPlay while regular Bluetooth stays fine? Any solutions?

My 2025 Lincoln Nautilus has Digital Experience, and CarPlay over wireless keeps stuttering — like a record skipping. It’s really bad when I’m using Apple Books and the iPhone Text to Speech feature to read to me while driving, it’s unlistenable.

I went down a whole rabbit hole trying to fix it myself. Re-paired my phone from scratch a few times, forgot the connection and set it back up, checked that Vehicle Connectivity was on under Network & Internet (it was), tried the Background Sounds trick on iPhone to mask the gaps during text-to-speech, and the Google Maps recommendation I saw somewhere, nothing worked. This Nautilus doesn’t have an AUX or wired CarPlay option so I couldn’t test around wireless.

Interestingly, if I turn off CarPlay and just play my Books over plain Bluetooth, it’s flawless. Never a single hiccup. So whatever’s going on, it seems like it’s specific to the CarPlay wireless connection itself and not my Bluetooth or my phone, which is a 17Pro iPhone.

Curious if anyone else has run into this on their Nautilus? My dealership has done all the software updates and it is still an issue. Has anyone figured this out yet?