Current model iPod Nano w/Bose system?

twyrick

Not sure we're talking about the same thing? I have an iPhone 7 that can run apps like Pandora -- but I'm talking about the little iPod Nano that doesn't do anything besides playing music or podcasts synced into it.

In any case? I tried hooking it up today and didn't have good results, at least via the USB to Lightning cable. What happened is the iPod Nano recognized it was attached to the stereo and changed its screen to one telling me it was attached in "accessory mode" and was "ok to disconnect". The Z's stereo seemed to be aware an iPod was attached to but whenever I made iPod the audio source, I got nothing ... just a blank screen like it was trying to communicate and not yet receiving any song data. Pressing arrow buttons on the steering wheel or control pad below the Z's screen did nothing.

I also have a circa 2016 Alpine stereo in my Jeep Wrangler so I tried the Nano in it too. It works just fine on the Alpine, letting me play music by genre, artist, album or song, shuffle play, and everything else, controlled by the radio itself.

So it looks to me like this is just a case of needing newer firmware in the Bose stereo in the Z for compatibility with these newer iPods -- and not sure such a thing even exists? (The owners' manual, even for a 2017 370z, doesn't list any of the newer iPods or iOS versions as compatible. Looks like they never even tried to update the initial compatibility list they put together years ago?)