My wife and I own a couple of 2016s: Impreza and Forester. The correct method to play Pandora through the 2016 stereo's Pandora app is to connect the iPhone and car via Bluetooth and plug a lightning cord into your iPhone and the USB port in the armrest or the one in the hole under the stereo (where you stash your phone or shades or Butterfinger). Step-by-step instructions: Plug lightning cord in your iPhone and car's USB Turn on the stereo, select a Pandora station on your iPhone, wait until the iPhone and stereo connect via Bluetooth, select Pandora on the car stereo, control the app with the stereo's buttons: skip song, thumb a song, read song title and artist, see list of your Pandora stations, select a new station, delete a station add a station. [This method is strictly for iPhones and 2016s. There's a possibility that the Starlink app is needed on the iPhone for 2017 and newer Subarus. I expected this awkwardness (using a cord and Bluetooth) from Android but not from iPhones. There's only one iPhone operating system instead of 100 flavors of Android!) Androids play Pandora through a 2016's stereo Pandora app without a USB.] Downloading the Starlink app isn't required for playing the Pandora app through the 2016 Subaru Impreza stereo Pandora app. I hope that somebody chimes in with instructions for 2017 and newer Subarus.
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