[afandian]

Am I the only person who hates plugging their iPhone into their car to charge and completely losing control of it?

When I plug it into the USB socket, my Peugeot 207 starts playing a random podcast track on my phone. No way of stopping it. If I stop it, it starts again. I can't select a different audio output, e.g. the phone speaker. There are plenty of people complaining about this on the forums.

Yes, it's a bug in either the iPhone or the car. Yes the bug shouldn't be there, but it is. I should be able to disable it.

I'm in the habit of bringing a spare battery with me so I can use phone sat-nav.

[Telaneo]

Your car is broken, and was apparently sold as such. I'd return the car for that, or just never buy it in the first place if I noticed it during research or a test drive.

[afandian]

It's a quite old, third-hand car. But there are plenty of people reporting the same thing.

But why can't my iPhone let me set permissions for the thing I plug it into? It's unreasonable to prevent me from changing the audio output.

Examples:

- https://www.peugeotforums.com/threads/mp3-ipod-random-play-p...

- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254051162?sortBy=rank

[Telaneo]

> It's a quite old, third-hand car. But there are plenty of people reporting the same thing.

Presumably it's been a problem since day 1. Meaning it was broken on day 1.

> But why can't my iPhone let me set permissions for the thing I plug it into?

There's the 'trust this device?' popup that should prevent the problem if you don't want the car to do anything with your device. If you want finder control, then from Apple's point of view, it's probably that this would needlessly clutter the UI, given that it shouldn't be an issue in the first place. Then again, I don't think Android supports finer controls either way.

[afandian]

Thanks, I might try and reset that 'trust'. I don't recall if it popped up or not originally.

[NetMageSCW]

There are also safety adapters / cables that only allow power over USB.