997 Gen 2 iPod connection

[Gareth135R]

Afternoon,

I have a 2010 997 Gen 2 and a little confused with the iPod connection in the car.
In the centre console I have a socket for AUX, USB & iPod and the car came with a Y-cable that slots into USB and iPod cable. I purchased a 30pin to lighting cable to enable use for my iPhone 6.
On connection the iPhone will charge but the PCM is not seeing the iPhone as a media device to play music.

I've tried a little research but not found a solution.
Someone did suggest:

Info > Option > select PCM and cycle through menu until I see device selection.
I only get so far but no choice to find device / select iPod.

Car is using System version V1.41

TIA

Gareth

[Gareth135R]

Thanks for info guys.....
Was hoping to use for Spotify.

I know it was 2010...but bluetooth for mobile phone use / calls is great....but to not have for streaming for music is madness!

[Gareth135R]

duttonst said:

Are you using a proper Apple 30-pin to lightning converter?

PCM3 only has analogue input and any iPhone with a lightning socket will be digital only (unless you use the headphone socket), so you need one of the official £25+ Apple adapters with inbuilt digital-to-analogue conversion for this to work. I'm using one of these in my 997.2 and it works fine. I've tested it with an iPhone 5, 6 & 6s - you get control of the iPhone from your PCM3, you get track names on screen and can listen to streaming music etc with no problems.

No...skimped out on a cheap one.

[Gareth135R]

Great help.
I'll buy the apple version. Thanks

[Gareth135R]

Bought apple one and it works fine!
Next annoying thing, a iphone6 is too big for the centre console!!!

[Gareth135R]

Just to follow on...changed my phone to the iPhone 7 with the same set up.
I now can't control music from the head unit (greyed out)...nor can I turn up volume on the car or iPhone....

Anyone?