3) Is it possible to display photos or play videos from iPhone Photos App over this car play connection? I haven't seen that icon in an screenshots. It would be nice to be able to do that.
4) Can this connection be made seamlessly, automatically and reliably without a lot of coddling the devices?
5) Can any app on iPhone be launched and displayed on Tesla browser without just mirroring the iPhone display?
So what I have learned so far about the Tesla infotainment system:
a) it will play iPhone music files but it requires a lot of interaction with the phone which is a distraction. It doesn't always show a playlist under bluetooth device unless a playlist has been selected on the phone and if it does show a playlist when all songs is selected on iPhone, it won't scroll all the way down - maybe only the first 50% or less of songs in alphabetical order. I have a lot of mp3 songs on my phone.
b) it doesn't allow using the Tesla display slider to jump ahead in a song - has to be done on phone
c) despite ripping songs to Apple lossless format and storing in music library, the transmission over BlueTooth is compressed and not lossless, so what's the point
d) I do find Tesla navigation maps to not be precise about showing position accurately relative to immediately pending turn, in which case iPhone Google maps would be a plus
e) Using voice command to Plays <song> by <artist> doesn't seem to work properly with Bluetooth connection to iPhone - it seems it selects a streaming app version instead.
For me the most important application is to play lossless audio over the Tesla premium sound system which I am quite pleased with, and I do like to sit in my car and just listen to music while I am parked - if I could easily manuever and had enough space to play my acoustic guitar inside the car I would do that too. Lol. I have done a trial to use the glovebox USB-A port with a SDHC card with 2 disc partitions, one for TeslaCam and other for media. It works quite well so far. It achieves the functionality and sound quality of a CD player and the capacity is huge although I understand it may use excessive Tesla processor resources if it has to index 100s of songs. I find it will play these formats: FLAC, WAV, MP3 and M4A equally well, although M4A files take longer to load. For those formats that store meta-data, I find the organization tabs Songs, Artists, Album, Genre, Folder work perfectly. I didn't really need to embed the disc number-track number in my song titles ripped to FLAC. Artwork, however, is only displayed for mp3 files it seems, although I have heard there may be ways to get artwork into Flac files (currently using Exact Audi Copy to rip CDs). There is no way I could ever store my entire CD collection in lossless format on my iPhone. An external USB drive is a good solution and much. cheaper than buying an Apple product with higher memory capacity. I am currently trying a single 256GB Samsung Pro Endurance SDHC card for TeslaCam + media - 128GB each partition. I have concerns about specs for continuous max temperature operating condition for many EXT SSD drives, but that discussion is for a different thread. As long as it doesn't jeopardize recording of a critical camera video I think it is my best option for music, and the display of song titles for the USB device are quite readable without my reading glasses.