We recently rented a Nissan Versa and ran into a severe annoyance. We'd forgotten to take a 3.5 to 3.5 jack connector, such as we use in our ten year old cars. But we did have our lightning charging cables which plugged into the car's USB port, and could get audio from the phone to the car's speakers, but not the audio we wanted.

Annoyance one was that it automatically started the music app, even if we were listening to a CD or had most recently been listening to Audible on the iPhone. (I despise programming that automatically starts playing, because it's hardly ever right.).

But the more severe problem was the interaction with either Apple or Google maps. Ordinarily, playing through the 3.5mm connector with my iPhone 6, when either maps app has something to say, it pauses whatever is playing and gives its driving directions. But on the Versa, connecting through the USB port, the map audio never came through. It would silence whatever audio was playing but not transmit the map audio, nor play the map audio on the phone's speaker.

Is this an iOS or iPhone limitation when playing through the lightning connector? Or bad implementation on the part of Nissan? Is there any way around this short of using a 3.5mm connector?