2022 Kia Carnival Rear Seat Entertainment Walkthrough and Review

In this video, I go through the rear seat entertainment system on this 2022 Kia Carnival. This revised system includes a full suite of apps, a new kids mode by Pinkfong featuring Baby Shark, and iOS Apple screen mirroring.
Do keep in mind that this system is different than those found in the 2020 Kia Sedona and Kia Carnival (which I reviewed earlier), and is also different than the system found in the 2021 and newer Telluride and Sorento rear seat entertainment options.
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The opinions and commentary made in this video and in the comments are solely my opinions and are not reflective or representative of my employer, Kia Motors America.

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Please note that this is for SX and SX-Prestige trims only. The LX and EX trims receive this RSE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqabpGesq7iXirc

[@anthonyandlupe4799]

This just helped us get the audio back on in the Kia! Thank you!

[@KellonMohan]

Thanks for the review!

[@utsavjaiswal5201]

Hello, I just got my Carnival this week, trying to make the screen audio work but no luck yet, do the screen come with their own native audio, or will they only work with the cars sound system/ Bluetooth headphones

[@jamesfarag8240]

I cannot seem to find a way to connect Bluetooth headphones to the screens. It seems like it is Bluetooth to the vehicle infotainment system or hard wired headphones. Is this correct? Or am I just not finding the setting to set up Bluetooth headphones? Thanks!

Hi! We just bought a 2023 carnival prestige. Can you connect more than 2 wireless headphones? We have 4 kids. Thank you!!

[@christopherskuster6029]

So as long as I have a wifi source like the hotspot on my iPhone, I can screen mirror on the rear seats to show my kids a movie streaming on my phone?

[@sarahidestefano5323]

Is this the same in a Kia telluride the rear entertainment system?

[@utsavjaiswal5201]

Also how to get the heated seats turned on for the rear seats in the 8 seat configuration

[@mistyvasquez4117]

How do you get the audio to play through the speakers ?

[@cedricfarnam8219]

Do you turn on the volume manually or does it just have it on?? Maybe mine is broken?

[@yolosolonorthwest6282]

Does the screen come off?

[@lashens1]

How can l get the Manuel for 22 Sorento?

[@rosaavila9753]

How do we add audio to bak entretaiment there muted

[@roofyourhouse247]

Do the tablets them selfs not have their own speakers?

[@fashionseahorsekids7484]

Does it have dvd ?

[@jckayed9312]

I have the 2022 SX Carnival and I cannot get the sound to work without headphones, I have had this van since early 2021 and my dealership is not any help navigating this

[@TheStinalee201120]

So the screens can't be put away

[@Melchiahdim]

I tested connecting a Nintendo switch. It works well enough, though there is some input lag and visual quality isn’t great. I will try fiddling with the lip sync adjuster and see if that helps.

[@crcked_oshal971]

I have a switch tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AleiatheEnchanted]

Just bought the 2024 carnival but was having trouble with the audio. Anyone figured it out?

[@MisterE428]

4:26 talks about how you need a wifi hotspot. Thank you for this!

[@Tim_Gravy]

Is there an App Store/app adder, like say i wanna add Spotify or youtube music? Looking to buy a Carnival SX prestige. Thanks Great video!!! Thumbs up!!!

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Thanks! I don't believe this RSE has that option

[@jamesfarag8240]

Do you find that you must reconnect to WiFi or hotspot each time you start the vehicle? I have not been able to get it to connect automatically and this is cumbersome since my kids are too young to do it themselves. Any solutions? Thanks!

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

I only filmed this on a loaner car so I am not too sure! Hopefully someone who comes across this video will pitch in!

[@willkretzmann7756]

Do the screens articulate? Our driver side screen is at a different angle than the passenger side but I don't see a way to tip or move the screen.

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

The screens will tilt up and down, but the mounts they are on don't allow you to move the actual screen up or down

[@pagemontgomery5405]

What would you suggest if I purchased an LX trim with the seat package and the dealership told me it was the new RSE with Carousel Home Screen and Apple connection, only to find when we bring it home… it’s not!

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Unfortunately dealers aren't trained very well when it comes to these types of things

[@LamNguyen-sr1sy]

How would the kids watch anything from the third row?

[@LCE040490]

What about the DVD/CD player? Can I use my audio cds and control it from the driver side?

[@fashionseahorsekids7484]

That’s what I need to know can u use a dvd

[@rahulhanda8073]

How to download Disney hotstar or any other Application

[@AKstryker23]

Ok so we got ours and I got home setup our wifi and went to check KZbin and when we do anything I can't get audio am I doing something wrong or does it need to run through the car speakers? It looks like it has speakers on the back of the screen

[@AleiatheEnchanted]

Did you figure it out? Mine is doing the same

[@shashanka9427]

the problem is if the rear screen audio is connected to main speakers thru bluetooth and you plug in Apple CarPlay the bluetooth shut down.. and there is no choice to select audio in the front screen. So basically if you have your phone plugged in for maps etc. the rear sound disappears and no option to bring it back.

[@samschnitzler7106]

Thanks for your review. Does it have a DVD player?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

There is no built in DVD player

[@roltidroll]

Any idea if this version will be what is offered on the 2022 Telluride?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

I haven’t seen any MY22 Telly’s come through yet with RSE. Hopefully I can update this comment soon

[@melissasievert7707]

Do you know if we can connect a Google Chromecast to the device and cast onto it from other apps like Disney+ from our phone?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Unfortunately didn’t have a chance to try that

[@justinhodges9352]

you can, i tried

[@meghanrenslow]

Thank you for the review, it helped a lot. Just brought ours home today and not impressed with the entertainment system even with Netflix the visual is crap and the audio and visual don’t match up. Also having a hard time figuring out how both screens can be used at the same time, I hope they will be able to once we get Bluetooth head phones... which I’m disappointed that none came with the vehicle

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Congrats! Yeah it definitely has flaws and true, no headphones which is an oversight. The screens can be connected via the screen sharing mode. You can try the lip sync adjuster to see if it helps with audio delay, otherwise that’s a bummer!

[@kickinitwithkiska8619]

@@theupshiftcarblog9555 yeah, but they don’t share sound via headphones so unless you’re using your car speakers the screen sharing is worthless

[@michaeluyeno8627]

Do you know if this is the units that will be on the 2022 Telluride?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

I believe this is a Carnival exclusive at the moment

[@koraytugay]

Can you lock the screens so kids do not play with it and only the driver controls them, doing screen sharing from android devices?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

I didn’t see that functionality

[@annashay3314]

Hey! so I can’t get the entertainment system to play sound . I was wondering if maybe you had to have headphones but yours is plying without any.

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Mine is playing through the cars stereo. The screens themselves do not have speakers. So you can Bluetooth connect to the stereo, or you will need headphones (wired or wireless)

[@1977stac]

I bought headphones at Amazon for my granddaughter to listen to movies..

[@isaackwakye8490]

I have the same problem audio won't play even though it is connected to the car's audio system.

[@mendonrohan]

I love baby shark

[@yolosolonorthwest6282]

Can I put an Aetna in there so I can watch football ?

[@britliza]

We just bought the carnival! We love it however my daughter cannot use the entertainment system because the only time it’s connected to WiFi is when we are parked in our garage. I have a personal hotspot on my phone but for some reason the entertainment system won’t connect to it or even try to

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Unfortunately not sure why it won’t connect :(

[@1977stac]

Mine does same thing.. I can’t figure it out

[@stephanieortiz2471]

You have to connect to your hotspot every time. Mine worked fine but since it made my phone extremely hot during our travel, I just bought a mobile hotspot from Verizon.

[@christianjohnson3444]

You have to set it up on each screen. Not just through the front radio

[@michealmitchell3371]

My 100w plug isnt working ib my kia carnival can you tell me why

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

I’d suggest contacting your dealership as some people reported inverter issues in early models

[@yolosolonorthwest6282]

I wonder if a fire stick would work great in there.

[@ashleyamend2357]

We just bought a carnival! We absolutely love it! But we have been trying to plug the iPad into the USB port and it keeps saying that USB is unavailable. Do you know why that is happening?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Congrats! I believe the USB port is for a usb stick or similar only. A wired connection from the iPad will likely require a lightning to hdmi adapter.

[@cowderycrisanto8277]

I tried an HDMI/ lightning adapter for iPad. Didn't work. Mirroring movies from IOS devices doesn't seems to work.

[@LegoWormNoah101]

@@cowderycrisanto8277 probably a bug with the software

[@lauracrowell1751]

I’m having the same problem. Mirroring isn’t working (unavailable) and usb isn’t working! I haven’t tried the hdmi to lightening but seems that isn’t working either.

[@LegoWormNoah101]

@@lauracrowell1751 One thing you can try is to reset the whole car by disconnecting the negative terminal on the battery and letting the system discharge. And like Upshift Car Blog said, the USB may be designed for flash drives only

[@lilmissgumby]

Do you happen to have the parts number for the rear entertainment system? Ours is located on the back of the screen but it seems that we were provided the older model, the ones that look like the 21 Telluride. The dealership hasn’t been helpful unfortunately. I appreciate any help!

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

It looks like the T-ride/Sorento = part number: S9F58-AC100, and the Carnival (Model Year 22) = model number: MTXRSE150. Hope this helps!

[@hailymcdaniel2099]

We just got ours today, and I realized while watching this that my carnival came with the older model as well. I don’t know if it was a mistake, but we were led to believe we would have this version.

[@ilsevMckee]

@@hailymcdaniel2099 let me know what happens because we just got our car today and definitely don’t have this version (pink fong kid theme) I’m going to call the dealership tomorrow

[@hailymcdaniel2099]

@@ilsevMckee keep me updated from your end if you do not mind. I feel like we have been cheated.

[@hailymcdaniel2099]

My dealership is closed today (Sunday). Ill call them tomorrow and let you know.

[@mattluckett8379]

Dude how’d you get the sound to work on that monitor?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

The monitors don’t have speakers. You have to connect headphones or connect to the cars stereo

[@MOTHCAT3o4]

That’s lame af

[@wjkwjw]

How to connect to car stereo

[@cowderycrisanto8277]

Any advice on IOS device mirroring? It doesn't play uploaded movies or shows from ipad or iphone. I tried streaming from Netflix from my iphone and down loaded shows and it didn't work. The system really seems to just support streaming through the native apps.

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

A quirk I noticed was that if your phone is the WiFi hotspot, device mirroring doesn’t work. So you may need two devices. For example, a pocket WiFi to generate the WiFi hotspot, your phone or iOS device you want to stream from connected to the pocket WiFi’s network, and the screens also connected to the pocket WiFi’s network. If that doesn’t work then I’m not really sure.

[@aselekof]

@@theupshiftcarblog9555 Can you please post a video showing how you were able to make it work? I tried using my husbands phone as a hotspot for both my phone and the entertainment screen and it just wouldn't work. Even when I tried playing streaming content because it says it doesn't support downloaded content yet.

[@Melchiahdim]

@@theupshiftcarblog9555 based on what you said, both the monitor and the phone you are streaming from need to be connected to the same WiFi. Does that mean I will need to connect both the monitor and my wife’s phone to my hotspot?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

@@aselekof unfortunately I only had this carnival on a loan. I’ll try to make a follow up video though answering questions from here!

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

@@Melchiahdim correct!

[@melissamorales7815]

hello so my mother recently got this car and we love it! the screen volume isn’t working though, do you know the reason why? can you please help us😂

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

I’d suggest checking what audio connection it is set to (headphones, Bluetooth, etc)

[@stephaniehedrick730]

I’m having the same issue! We tried Both audio options and no sound plays over the actual headsets

[@melissamorales7815]

@@stephaniehedrick730 yes! it isn’t connected to the car bluetooth or anything. the sound just won’t come out of the actual screen for some reason 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@melissamorales7815]

@@theupshiftcarblog9555 okay, we will check! thank you.

[@Bee1_me2009]

Why disabled live chat?

[@damienhannafordstaff3960]

Can this entertainment system play dvds or blue rays?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

This system doesn’t have an in car DVD player so you will have to bring your own.

[@AnaPerez-vk8gl]

@@theupshiftcarblog9555 any recommendation on portable dvd or have you successfully tried one? I tried a usb dvd and it gives me an error. That plus the lack of speakers has been annoying (had to buy jack plug in speakers and now I need a dvd because I can't take baby shark any more and connection is too slow ) help!

[@strohlman]

Can the rear seat monitors be removed?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

You most likely can but it will likely require some disassembly/unscrewing.

[@strohlman]

Thank you

[@kickinitwithkiska8619]

I had high hopes for this system. But it just doesn’t have great directions and it’s not very accessible. Why have a device that relies so heavily on wifi when the car doesn’t have wifi capabilities. We rarely use it- love the car, but disappointed in this aspect

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

I agree it is a huge oversight!

[@RichRevan]

Did your Carnival come with headphones? The dealer book says it comes with a pair but I didn’t get them with mine.

[@stephanieortiz2471]

Someone said that too but mine didn't come with one. I have the SX trim.

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

No headphones included afaik :/

[@1977stac]

I had to purchase them from Amazon.. you’d think that Kia would provide them

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

@@stephanieortiz2471 the Sedona came with them but seems they excluded it for the new my22+ Carnival

[@stephanieortiz2471]

@@theupshiftcarblog9555 yeah I'm not sure why. They do sell headphones that are supposedly compatible with Kia. I didn't buy it. I bought a cheap one from Amazon which turned out to be of very good quality.

[@christianjohnson3444]

Wifi comment is false you can sign up for wifi hotspot with the vehicle

[@MisterE428]

How?

[@lelo9077]

I think you sign up online. I forget, but I have it on my Prestige and if I remember right I had to look it up online and sign up thru Verizon and they activate it. Sorry its been over a year and I haven't thought anymore about it since, but mine seems to work fine. I used it on a over 2,000 mile trip last year.

[@MarkM58]

I am confused. I just bought the SX and this system is NOT easy to figure out. Even the sales folks at my dealership are having trouble figuring this system out. You keep saying WiFi. How does it work when you're out on the road and not near your WiFi connection? If I am driving down the road with my 4yo granddaughter in the car, how does she watch anything?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

Out on the road is where you will need a portable wifi hotspot. Some smartphones have WiFi hotspot capability, or you can buy a device online or from your carrier.

[@meghanrenslow]

Same here the tech guy was less than helpful at the dealership

[@crw31399]

I connected both monitors to my phones hotspot..good thing I have unlimited hotspot.

[@premananth2002]

does it come with a bluray player?

[@theupshiftcarblog9555]

No DVD player of any sort is installed with this system. You would have to bring your own

[@ekortal]

i will receive SX prestige with tablet in January 2022.....

[@michaellns2860]

Vehicle has very nice features, you spent to much time on tablets wifi not good.

[@tao265]

Disappointing