Why isn't my iPhone playing music through my car s radio anymore?

I have an iPhone 5c, and for a while I've been using my Pandora app to listen to music in my car. All I've had to do is hook my iPhone up to the USB port in my console, and press the AUX button on my radio; I got in my car today, hooked my iPhone up with the USB, clicked play on Pandora, and nothing happened. The volume was on, and if I unplugged the USB my radio would show a prompt saying "USB removed", but when I plugged it back it the prompt "Sync line in" would remain on the radio and my music wouldn t play through it; even when the phone was clearly hooked up ( registered as charging), and playing music with the volume up on itself and the radio.

Your phone isn't playing music. The problem is on the device side, not the radio. Restart (powercycle) your iphone, and it may work better.

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