iPod function on iPhone X

are you talking about apple carplay?

Try to charge your battery first (both car's and phone's) and kill all the apps on iphone and restart it. Then try the next day. Solves many issues.

 

Have you reset your iPhone?

with the phone unlocked do the following- press:

1. Volume up; let go; then
2. Volume down; let go; then
3. the right side button and keep holding until the screen goes blank and keep holding until you see the Apple logo-

You won't lose any data, but it will force the phone to reset itself. This usually cures problems with the iPhone (kind of like the iPhone version of ctrl-alt-del from Windows).

 

Can you play the music on your iPhone when it is not connected to your car? Do you have another iOS device you can try with your car?

 

I had this problem. Turned out, for me, that when I restored the new phone from my laptop back-up, it brought over a movie file that I had downloaded from Apple but which became corrupted in the backup. I reset the phone completely, deleting all data. Then set phone up as new and downloaded everything from cloud not laptop. The problem went away and the phone would connect as an iPod in the car again. Can’t say whether you have the same problem. Could be totally unrelated so may just waste your time.

 

@Caeruleus11 makes a good point. Worth checking another iOS device to see if it is your phone, at least it will help you diagnose where the problem is. Car or iPhone.

 

R J makes a point that jogs my memory- it could be a corrupted file of any type that can cause this problem. Also- do you have any playlists or songs with an emoji or other "non-standard" character in the title? I once had a corrupted image on my iPhone that was causing it to hang, and I once had a playlist with a smile face which caused the 458 to hang.