Contact your provider and verify that:

1. Your account is provisioned properly
2. They don't have a local network outage

You can check for network outages at this crowd-sourced site: https://downdetector.com/

 

If CarPlay doesn't work like you expect, here’s what you can check. After each step, try using CarPlay again.

1. Make sure that Siri is turned on.
2. Restart your iPhone and your car. Depending on your car, you might see the CarPlay Home screen when you turn it on. If you don't, look for the CarPlay logo on your car’s display.
3. If possible, connect your iPhone to a different USB port in your car.
4. Try a different Lightning to USB cable. Make sure that the cable is certified.
5. Update to the latest version of iOS.
6. Check your car’s manual for help. You might need to install firmware updates for your stereo.

Learn more about CarPlay and driving and navigating safely.

 

Thank you rbrylawski. I found my answer @ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207230

For some reason my "shuffle" icon does NOT turn to the deeper red on main screen showing my albums, artists, songs, etc., BUT on the "play screen" below the bar showing how far I'm into the playing song does in fact go into the deeper red as I'm shuffling. And @ that same position, I FINALLY found the "repeat" icon. When I finally found the repeat icon, it was in fact the deeper red. How THAT happened I do NOT know but as soon as I pressed the light colored shuffle icon, I was back in business & it then turned to the deeper red, the shuffle icon that is. I have pics of what I'm trying to say here if anyone wants to see. And I will TRY to answer any questions. Hope this HELPS!?

Just updated the firmware to 10.13.3. It seems like the issue has been taken care of. It works fine again, just as before. Thanks Apple.

Set up SMS and MMS messaging

Use this feature with any Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that meets the Continuity system requirements. Make sure that your devices are set up as follows:

• Each device is signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID.
• On iPhone, go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Make sure that the Apple ID at the top of the screen is the same Apple ID that you're using for iMessage on your other devices. Add a check to your phone number and email address, so that you can be reached by iMessage at both. Do the same on your iPad or iPod touch.
• On iPhone, go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding, then choose which devices to allow to send and receive text messages from this iPhone. If you're using two-factor authentication for your Apple ID, a verification code appears on each of your other devices: enter that code on your iPhone.
• On Mac, open Messages, then choose Messages > Preferences. Click Accounts, then select your iMessage account. Make sure that the Apple ID shown here is the same Apple ID that you're using on your other devices. Add a check to your phone number and email address.

If you can't send or receive messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

In system preferences/keyboard/input sources, what items do you have on the list?

Why do you say "Ukrainian Unicode"?  Isn't the name just "Ukrainian"?

I wholeheartedly second Macjack's comments and recommendations.  Do post the Etrecheck results.

Perform a full backup and restore using iTunes.

jweisinger wrote:

 

Its a MECO USB 3.0 16GB Flash Drive Memory Stick U Disk Pen Drive

Is this one of those amazingly cheap flash drives out of China?*

Because if they are amazingly cheap, it is because they are amazingly fake. It is a known scam. It may mount somewhere and even look like its supposed capacity but trying to copy more than a minimal amount of data onto it will fail because they use reject undersize chips and alter the way it reports its capacity to your OS.

Peter

* Yep just checked on eBay - FAKE! FAKE! FAKE! If you paid with PayPAL get your money back.

To take the issue on the road (and record upload it) may make for some curious

or funny video that may have millions of followers online, and a portion of fame.

However if you don't participate in the ownership game, you'd never know for

sure when the game has changed ~ or when those issues you've found in your

experience with Apple, had been addressed. Or if they're hardware or software.

Not sure if you should include those best geek dudes in your video without mention.

Did it help to see if you could use GPS with cell data and not wi-fi?

Tried to keep all those extras turned off in my iPhone. Except when I needed a browser

and found all that was offline because I was out of wi-fi range. Hard to search for phone

number by name of business, without the ads in search engine of browser, loading up.