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I only wish they allowed more than just the idrive wheel scrolling to navigate the carplay UI. (This is on a 2017 M2, so no touchscreen)
Only thing I use it for is music since the Wireless Carplay audio quality is much better than the Bluetooth music. It's on par with digital cable connect. And that it also allows navigation of deeper apple music/google play music UI. Idrive still can't access my music and the radio stations in apple music and no sub menus in google play music. Other thing is with Carplay accessing Siri is much faster. It doesn't have to connect a Bluetooth phone call to talk to Siri, just directly over Wifi no lag. But as you can see, That's only one part of Carplay. I don't use anything else in the carplay menus and nav with idrive nav. The only way to make me switch to Carplay maps is if they ever enable Waze, since it's more accurate with traffic times and routes around traffic better than idrive maps. |
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I prefer the Carplay maps over iDrive, something about the freeways being outlined in red makes it seem like that's congested traffic and not a highway.
I do wish Carplay would be able to display a text rather than just read it out loud (I know, dangerous, but its better than looking at your phone) |
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08-21-2017, 09:53 PM | #91 |
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CarPlay keeps launching Pandora, BMW Connected, TuneIn and all of the CarPlay-enabled apps when it first connects to the car, THEN the car is unable to choose a different audio source. Always keeps playing Apple Music files, and if I switch to another source (Satellite, FM, etc) it immediately switches back to CarPlay.
iDrive update from the dealer did nothing to fix this issue. CarPlay sucks balls. |
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08-21-2017, 11:53 PM | #92 |
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I'm pretty happy with CarPlay so far. Admittedly, all I've used it for is to play podcasts, and occasionally playlists from Music. It has started up pretty consistently when I start the car, which is something all my prior Bluetooth connections I've used often failed at.
I hardly listen to the radio, so that may help. The sound quality has been really good also, both for music and telephone calls. Much better than prior Bluetooth experiences. |
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My experience has actually been pretty good so far. In fact today I was pleasantly surprised because I had Waze running on my phone but I was listening to music from the Music Collection source, and it ducked the music while the Waze guidance was being spoken. So it seems like the system is capable of mixing multiple audio sources, at least in some situations. |
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It's intermittent. The next time I come back to the car, CarPlay might connect and function perfectly normally. I don't know why this happens, but it's been consistent throughout numerous iOS updates over the last 10 months, and I've tried everything to make it stop - including a dealer update to iDrive itself. Nothing resolves that annoying, intermittent issue. Last edited by ried; 08-25-2017 at 12:02 AM.. |
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Very interesting. Anyone else without CarPlay experience the app launching phenomenon?
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do you have bluetooth on at the same time? maybe it is trying to establish a connection to both protocols or something. (I have them both on, but no problems)
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08-28-2017, 01:41 PM | #100 |
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"Wireless" Apple CarPlay handshakes using BTLE and then communicated everything over wireless including Phone.
If you plug the phone into the USB, I don't know if CarPlay will switch back to a wired connection. Apple CarPlay supports both wired and wireless not sure how BMW implemented it. I have funky behavior especially when setting up for autocross and switching wireless to the GoPro to preview the camera alignment when the phone is also plugged into the USB. This is related to how BMW programmed the connection and switching logic not Apple. When the wireless drops the car will see that it is plugged in and switch me to BMW Connect and the BMW Connect app will start. A real PITA. This might be what you are seeing and perhaps Pandora is opening "through" BMW Connect. One interesting item. I am able to connect my iPhone wireless to the ODBII connector and via BTLE and BMW Connect to the car and run both the M Drive Analyzer and M Laptimer at the same time. Unfortunately, I cannot connect the M Laptimer to the GoPro b/c that requires wireless which is already being used by the ODBII/ M Drive Analyzer. Now if the M Drive Analyzer developers were to update the app to use BTLE I could connect to the car directly or to a newer BTLE ODBII adapter. Before you say it, yes iPhones can connect to the ODBII via BTLE just not BT connectors using ELM327 (serial). |
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Even if you have CarPlay turned off in the car, does it still show up on your available networks list (say when pressing wifi on your iPhone)? Any way to turn off it's wifi broadcast?
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That being said I've noticed it only happens if I left the car playing something from the iphone. When I return it's like it insists on launching that....if I let it launch then stop it...I can then change to sirius or whatever.
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09-08-2017, 10:51 AM | #104 |
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Mine will do it regardless of the previous session's audio source. It just "decides" to take over, seemingly randomly.
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I have absolutely zero issues switching from Apple CarPlay Music to the FM Radio in the car. I also like that Apple CarPlay picks up the song where I left off when I got out of the car. Last edited by omasou; 09-08-2017 at 11:05 AM.. |
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Same phone and not experiencing any issues. Actually just switched over from a Samsung S8 and am surprised how much better the Apple works with the car.
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No issues here with iPhone 8 and idrive 5 (MY17);, Nav and Apple Music are all working as expected. Apple Music has been working better than my iPhone 6, same IOS version.
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iOS 11.0.3 is out. Try that and see what happens
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