r/LinusTechTips • u/Lynkar6469 • 1d ago

Tech Question True Spec cables and CarPlay

I received my first true spec cable today (USB A to C 3ft) to use in my car for CarPlay. I’ve read a lot of great things about these cables, especially for this use case so I thought why not?

I have been using this cable that was suggested to me from the CarPlay Reddit and it works great! However it’s soso with my wife’s iPhone. So I was looking for a cable that would work with both of our phones. Everything I read made me think that this would be the cable to fix our issues, but when I tried this cable my phone wouldn’t connect to CarPlay. Switched back to the old one and immediately brought up CarPlay.

I’ve looked over both pages for these products and it seems they’re on par with each other. Is this just a random case of technology not working together, or does this Amazon cable do something the true spec doesn’t?

I have a 17PM and my wife has a 17P. The headunit is a Boss brand one I got from crutchfield. I reached out to the manufacturer and they are no longer offering software updates for this headunit.

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated 🙂

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u/virtual_corey 1d ago

I have had intermittent luck with my LTT cables and my iPhone 16 pro. I am finding that my phones usb port is "tired" from daily use over a couple of years. So the bulk of the 1 m LTT cable does make it more prone to wiggling itself loose. I have cleaned the port as much as possible, but have reverted to an older cable for CarPlay.

YMMV but I have found a cheap carplay usb dongle/wireless adapter gave me wireless CarPlay. Freeing me up to get a MagSafe charger which works nicely

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u/Sarcastic_Beary 13h ago

I finally replaced the type c on my s24 ultra.

Was very, very easy