Why is Siri unable to play Playlists on iOS 17.5?

At the very least, if Apple is not going to fix this bug, they should give us a way to opt out of not being able to select playlists on our car's screen while driving. I don't need Apple to be my nanny. Using the touchscreen while driving doesn't seem safe, but it seems more safe than having to pick up our phones and select a playlist there.

Well, the playlist problem was finally fixed for me and then I made the mistake of buying a new iPhone and iOS 18 and the playlist problem is back again. Siri says looks like Apple Music can’t play that.

On top of that all the other little commands I used to give Siri and she understood what I was asking no longer work, such as if I just say, Siri flashlight, she knew to toggle the flashlight state, or Siri airplane mode she knew to toggle airplane mode. No more.

I updated my iPhone 12 from 17.6 to 17.7, and the issue persists if you ask the following:

1. When connected to Apple CarPlay in a 2019 Chevrolet Camaro, Command "play playlist", Siri "What playlist do you want to play?", Command "(List Name)", Siri "Sorry it looks like Apple Music Can't Play That" or "I don't Understand."
2. Command "play playlist (List NAME)", Siri "Sorry it looks like Apple Music Can't Play That" or "I don't Understand."
3. Command "play playlist (List NAME) shuffled", Siri "Sorry it looks like Apple Music Can't Play That" or "I don't Understand."

It doesn't appear that "shuffle" is part of the bug, since the issue occurs with or without the shuffle command. Once out of approximately 30 times, a playlist did play, but I couldn't replicate it "working" again.

The commands above work normally when the Iphone is not in Carplay mode.

I've been experiencing this same issue exactly as you stated. I'm hoping someone can help.

Same issue with Siri responding “Looks like Apple Music Can’t Play That” when I ask play playlist XYZ both on CarPlay and not on CarPlay. Restarting has no impact.

Yeah, and Apple moved all their engineers from the Apple Car project to iPhone software development. Unbelievable that they can't fix this 4 month old software bug.

The same error persists after upgrading from 17.7 to 18.0 on iPhone 12.

iOS 17.6 just released.

Good: Siri appears to execute playlist functions through the iPhone now.

Bad: Same old crap when iPhone is connected to Car Play. “Looks like Apple Music can’t play that.” My vehicle is a Honda. Perhaps others will have better luck.

My previous CarPlay issues have resulted in Apple blaming Honda and Honda blaming Apple.

Hopeless.

Same behavior here with 17.6. Siri can once again play playlists on the iPhone directly. However, Siri fails (“Looks like Apple Music can’t play that.”) when trying to play the same playlist when using Siri and CarPlay.