Bluetooth Phone

I asked my wife yesterday if she had to manually connect her iPhone to her Prius v/Five/ATP system since my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone was the phone that was previously connected. She said that the connection with her iPhone was automatic.

My Samsung phone, however, has never connected automatically when her iPhone was the last phone to be connected. That my Samsung phone does not automatically connect may have something to do with my phone still being connected to our household Bluetooth system when I start the Prius in the garage or that her iPhone is still within range and is sensed first.

I know for sure when I start my primary vehicle in the garage that its Garmin GPS that I use for hands-free never automatically connects to my phone due to my phone still being in the grips of the household Bluetooth system.

And I don't know for certain that my wife's iPhone really does connect automatically when she starts her Prius in the garage. The household Bluetooth system may still be preventing her iPhone from connecting immediately and her iPhone may really be connecting automatically the first time she restarts her Prius when away from the house.

Regardless, it doesn't matter much whether or not our phones connect automatically to a car system since we rarely "talk and drive" for more than a few seconds at a time - it's too dangerous. The last cell phone using driver that hit my car did over $8,000 in damage. It was the third time I've been hit by a driver either talking or texting on a phone. I'm thinking of taking a tire iron to the next cell phone using driver who hits me.

Overall, the Bluetooth feature in our Prius works very well for both phone and audio streaming - very happy with it.

 

harold
Your issue is solved on this thread right?
Iphone 5 Bluetooth recognition | PriusChat

 

Correct. I switched from my iPhone to a Pantech phone which is more basic. I had to use the connect for phone option, and actually had to enter the code requested. It finally worked. The only bad thing is it takes 2-4 minutes for the phone's bluetooth to connect to the car, and then I have to press OK on the phone for it to enable use of the Contacts on the phone. A bit of an inconvenience, since my old iPhone connected even when I was outside the car within 5 feet or so.

Now I use my old iPhone as an iPod hooked up via USB, and the phone is bluetooth phone only.

 

the short of it is, the system SUCKS. there is only ONE phone in our family, and sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. as i understand it, it might be a different system. northern or southern. either way toyota must have installed downgraded systems. ever wonder if GM or the other auto company's systems work better ?? i know my 2009 venza worked a he** of a lot better.