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One of the immediate concerns of many Apple fans when the company announced the iPhone 5 and the Lightning connector was how the new connector would work with iPod/iPhone integration systems that are built into many cars. CNET Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham found that the iPhone 5 worked beautifully in some cars, but had some issues with Volkswagen's Media Device Interface.
In both Chevy and Nissan vehicles, Cunningham was able to plug the USB-Lightning cable into the cars' USB ports. The integration worked exactly the way it should have, with the iPhone's music library appearing on the LCDs in the cars. As Cunningham notes, this means that Apple really hasn't made any drastic changes to the music control firmware in the iPhone 5.
Things were much different when he tried to use the iPhone 5 with battery like Asus Eee PC 1015PD AC Adapter, Asus B43 AC Adapter, Acer ADP-65JH DB AC Adapter, Acer ADP-60NH AC Adapter, Asus Eee PC 1016 AC Adapter, Asus A6 AC Adapter, Asus U5 AC Adapter, Asus ADP 65JH CB AC Adapter, Asus ADP-36EH AC Adapter, Asus A8 AC Adapter, Asus U5F AC Adapter, Asus Eee PC 1215 AC Adapter in a Volkswagen Golf R that he was reviewing. The VW uses a proprietary Media Device Interface with a special cable which he plugged into Apple's 30-pin Dock connector to Lightning adapter. Things worked well initially, but then Bluetooth audio streaming took priority over the cabled connection and grabbed the connection even when Cunningham told it to use the wired path.
Why Cunningham didn't just try to shut off Bluetooth and let the MDI do its thing was not mentioned in the post, but the post definitely points out that you may see some issues when trying to use your new iPhone with an existing car audio system. Have you had success or failure with your iPhone 5 and car audio system? Let us know in the comments.
I have a 2009 BMW 328i. It uses a BMW-custom cable that breaks out the 30-pin to USB and a headphone jack. If I plug the lightning cable directly into the USB, I can only charge. I don't get any registration in the iDrive that I've connected a media device. If I used the 30-pin to lightning adapter, I can now get music, but it refuses to charge. Overall it's frustrating, so I don't use it because the battery life is more important. BMW is looking into a solution, but that isn't supposed to be available for another 6 months at least, and who knows if it'll apply to my model. I'll probably just get a dedicated music player to connect to the 30-pin setup.
I have a 2012 Mini Cooper S. While I can plug the Lightning to USB cable directly into the USB interface, certain things don;t work right. For instance, the Mini-Conncted software works for Facebook, etc, but not for playing from the Music App. I can run the Pandora App and that works great, displaying the album art etc on the display. If I disconnect the USB and connect via bluetooth, i can get the Music App to work, but then I loose the "Mini-Connected" software features. Same results if I connect the lightning cable to the Mini custom cable etc.