u/Hobiecat79

So just a heads up. I’ve seen a lot more payments fail, even mine have failed many times. Up for a couple years I never had an issue and starting in December I can get maybe 3 transactions in before my bank blocks it and payment fails. Call the bank, they say it is clear and then payment still fails. But it doesn’t lock the account completely as I can still do other merchants like DoorDash on the same account.

I finally had the manager at my local branch tell me that banks are cracking down on whatnot because so many people play the games and when the don’t hit big, they are doing fraud claims to get refunded. There is also other shady things people are doing and this is why we can’t have nice things.

I found a work around as PayPal will eventually lock up too if it’s attached to your bank.

As a seller, tell your streams if you are getting failed payments to move money into their PayPal or Apple Cash balance. Then set that as your payment. I have had better luck with Apple Cash as it acts as a credit card number. But you have to transfer the money to the Apple Cash balance and then set your payment to use Apple Cash NOT Apple Pay which will pull from your bank and get declined.

Hopefully if you let your streams know this is a working alternative, it will reduce issues.

Ok, this has driven me nuts for over a decade, first with wired and now wireless CarPlay.

Here is a scenario, I’m listening to Sirius radio, I get to an appointment early so I decide to sit in the parking lot and scroll Facebook or something else. As soon as I open FB, or almost any app, radio will automatically switch to Apple Music and start playing. I’ve had this across many phones and a few different radios. It doesn’t switch to Apple Music every time the map gives directions so there has to be a way to turn off certain apps from CarPlay. Anyone experience this and get annoyed and k ow what I’m talking about? If so maybe chime in and explain it better.

Anyone figure out a fix? So far my fix is to turn off wifi on my phone, then scroll, but inevitably I then get a phone call lol.

I’m running a Pioneer AVIC-w8500NEX head unit. Is there a way to jailbreak these units to get non CarPlay apps into CarPlay?

Here is where I’m going with this. If I have Bluetooth RGB lighting on my truck that is controlled by an app on my phone, I would think I’m not the first person to want to be able to control the lighting from their head unit.

Has anyone done something like this? Or is there another way people have found to control lights other than from a phone or a remote that is Velcro’d somewhere? I have a lot of aftermarket stuff but like it to look clean and almost like it came from the factory with all the upgrades.