UConnect5 - Don’t connect your phone before starting vehicle…

[Drachenfels]

Had an odd occurrence today. Went out, hooked my phone (iPhone on iOS 26.3) to the Jeep, fired it up - got the JEEP splash screen and was asked to ACKNOWLEDGE that using the screen while the car was a safety issue, bla-bla-bla… Then when it came up, it flickered between multiple partial screens, with no HOME on the far left side. Shutting down and re-starting, to include opening the door and waiting for a time out, still came up with the same results. Got out, pulled the phone off - ran an errand, and when I came back out - started it up without hooking the phone up. UConnect came up fine. ???

Bottom line - any UConnect weirdness MIGHT be fixed by NOT connecting the phone before starting the vehicle. /shrug.

 

[Excaliburitto]

Had an odd occurrence today. Went out, hooked my phone (iPhone on iOS 26.3) to the Jeep, fired it up - got the JEEP splash screen and was asked to ACKNOWLEDGE that using the screen while the car was a safety issue, bla-bla-bla… Then when it came up, it flickered between multiple partial screens, with no HOME on the far left side. Shutting down and re-starting, to include opening the door and waiting for a time out, still came up with the same results. Got out, pulled the phone off - ran an errand, and when I came back out - started it up without hooking the phone up. UConnect came up fine. ???

Bottom line - any UConnect weirdness MIGHT be fixed by NOT connecting the phone before starting the vehicle. /shrug.

I had this problem (the never ending boot, the multiple screens w/o the side menu icons, etc) and just dropped off my Jeep to the dealer for this, and a HEMI tick for them to diagnose.

For the radio they said they'll replace it.

 

[Drachenfels]

I had this problem (the never ending boot, the multiple screens w/o the side menu icons, etc) and just dropped off my Jeep to the dealer for this, and a HEMI tick for them to diagnose.

For the radio they said they'll replace it.

Well, since it's less than 2 weeks old... /omg. Hope it's not an omen...

 

[Excaliburitto]

Well, since it's less than 2 weeks old... /omg. Hope it's not an omen...

Mine was Ok for more than a year and a half, this started happening more and more in the last few months to the point that I had a 50/50 chance of the radio starting normal. Sometimes restarting the engine would help, but not all the time.