Hi, I recently bought my 2014 mercedes and I have been trying to connect my iphone xs via USB cable to the slot in the arm rest to play music but it won't work, It charges my phone but won't do anthing else, I purchased a media interface cable that allows me to connect my usb cable and it still will only charge my phone, it comes up on my display "no device connected" please can someone help as to why it will not work. Thanks

 

Use Bluetooth or Aux cable with adapter. You can connect an Android device ,and tell the phone to work as a USB device.

Apple is more secured in that aspect. BTW I own both.

 

Not sure why yours doesn’t do it. Mine automatically connects when I plug it in and it’ll play my library on my iPhone. In fact, it can get annoying if I’m listening to Satellite radio and the phone disconnects/reconnects due to my bad lighting cable, it’ll automatically switch from Satellite to iPod. I would press radio button to get back to Satellite but if I hit a bump or something to cause the bad cable to reconnect, it automatically switches to iPod again. Lol