I thought I would put this here, instead of in the Blue & Me forum section as I'm after other Fiat 500 owners experience...

My Fiat 500 (limited edition 1.3 Diesel by Diesel) I've had new from 2009 with no real issues with Blue & Me, up until now.

However now I've the latest iOS 11 on my iphone 6, Blue & Me basically no longer works. Or rather it is horrifically intermittent, including failing to connect, claiming to connect but won't make calls and dropping signal mid-call and failing to reconnect.

I've checked the Blue & Me site (http://www.blueandme.net/blueandme/index.aspx/) and downloaded and reinstalled the latest update that I am allowed to for my year, but that version is of course way out of date due to the age of the Blue & Me technology in my car (I think I was allowed something like version 5 or 6 and it's now on 10 for modern cars), so I suspect that I'm just stuffed and need to look at third party products as I'm not buying a new car!

Will a Android phone work? Over time it seems by far ,connection issues crop up with Apple more, maybe a different phone would be an answer, just a thought?

Roll back the software on your iphone so that it remains compatible with the most up to date version of Blue&Me that can run on your car's hardware?

Your car is almost 10 years old. It's hardly fair to blame Fiat if their 10yr old hardware isn't compatible with the latest flavour of iOS; that's a bit like blaming Dell because a laptop you bought in 2009 won't run Windows 10. Perhaps the blame should be more properly laid at Apple's door for failing to maintain full backward compatibility in the latest release of their operating system .

As has already been said, Android platforms seem to be more tolerant in this regard.

I doubt it'll be all that long before none of this matters; following a few high profile accidents in which the use of handsfree mobile devices has been implicated, I can see a total ban coming on the non-emergency use of any kind of communication device by the driver of a moving vehicle. In today's 'blame culture' climate, if you are unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident in which someone loses their life and you were using a hands free mobile at the time, you'll likely be going to prison. It's enough reason for me to keep the phone switched off whilst in the car now; I won't even run a satnav app on it.

I might be wrong, but I didn't think you could 'rollback' the OS on Apple products, once you went to newer version there was no going back?

Paul m.

You are correct, you can’t go back with Apple products once you’ve updated. I wonder how much a new convergence unit is and update to the latest appropriate version?

Yes you can.
At least with Apple computers, but I doubt you can with IOS devices.

Mick.

If it helps, I have Blue&Me in my 2008 Grande Punto: it worked fine with my old Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, and it works with my Galaxy J6.

Apple have always been buggers when connecting with anything, other than other Apple products.