Extremely ugly UI especially in 2023, looks like local chinese local cheepiest phone's interface. PS: that's not about disrespect for your great job, that's all about strange things doing by bmw exterior, interior and infotainment design in last 5-6 years. PS2: When I see a new autos, I love much much more olds.
I actually agree… this interface is missing some very simple and expected features that BMW owners have come to expect… and when you’re nixing the iDrive controller having simple touch shortcuts is a necessity.
@@BMWofFW Look at the infotainment of new presented Lucid Gravity, so amazing, absolutely gorgeous. Language of simplicity and smoothness. Tesla works well with the same direction. And why BMW had a fight with Apple about CarPlay... Looks egoistic.
I have a 2024 X1, trying to get my seats and steering wheel to come on when I use the auto start....kinda annoying to have the ability to auto start in the winter but not able to get the seats and steering wheel warm too. Any tips? Is it even possible?
@@pleaseletitgo1818 right, but iDrive systems used to be upgraded every few years. However when they released iD8 they released iD8.5 a few months after then a few months after that iD9 too. If you bought a 3 series LCI when it was announced, you’d have thought you’d be getting the newest system but when it eventually arrives after 6-7 months, you’d have gotten the older iD8
@@pleaseletitgo1818my car is a 2024 i4, delivered last week. It has iDrive 8 (despite being told that the 2024 model would come with 8.5). So not quite true that if you buy new things it will come with new things
I absolutely hate this technical bloatware on my new G87 M2. The owner's manual is worthless too. Three days a week, I want to go track down the owner of my old E46 M3 and buy it back, have Steve Dinan rebuild the S54 and sell this car.
Generally that makes me so mad since years. The mobile market managed to be lag free around the year 2012+-. PC Market even earlier. You get these premium cars, pay 40-200K € and still they can't manage to have a lagfree scrolling threw menus or zooming on maps. Catastrophe!
The new IDrive 9 is very bad ( very buggy, responds with delay, there is no more touch feedback like in 8/8.5, voice control does not work). I regret buying the car mainly because of it.
@@kdl0 Yap Idrive 8 (Linux) is faster and more stable than Idrive 9 (Android). When you open the car Idrive 8 loads in a few seconds while idrive 9 takes more than 1 minute. Idrive 8 has touch feedback sound while Idrive 9 has not. Idrive 8 voice assistant works properly and you can ask the system to open the windows while in idrive 9 is not yet supported. Also while driving I had to restart many times the Idrive 9.
Dunno but from what ive seen it looks like a cheap copy of idrive 8.5. Really clunky and unintuitive compared to previous versions. Hope BMW adopts carplay 2.0. This is the first time ive seen idrive take its time loading.
Hello and thank you for your videos , I have a question I have selected unlock all doors but is not working is there any way you could help or have you heard about this. Regarding using Carplay and phone call comes in dont show callers photo is that even possible And what is Digital Primium I have an X1 2024
@@Danielm316 SO if your’e using your key and the all doors option is part of your profile settings, make sure your sued keys are linked to your profile. Otherwise it defaults to guest. As for CarPlay, it doesn’t come up with full screen photos YET, just name and answer/deny. Digital premium is your extra features that you’lll pay either 9.99/month or 99.99/year to have access to. Frankly if you don’t use airconsole, or care about 3D buildings and real time traffic all over the onboarding map it’s not really needed thing. The rest of the functionality is for the lifetime of the vehicle.
Thank you for your prompt reply and help. Ho do I make sure my key fob is linked so the all doors option works and in case this don’t work any other suggestions? Thanks
Indeed, I do… Next time you activate Siri turn up the volume either on the center console or steering wheel that will increase the volume of your personal assistant, in this case Siri ,separate from the volume of the cars audio sources. Your reaction time is limited to how long Siri is active so I would suggest asking Long question like ‘what’s the weather like today’
At this moment there’s no word that it will… but considering it’s a Linux system with the proper gpu, it can in theory run it… unfortunately it’s just a wait and see thing at this moment…
How does the update work from previous i30e models? do i have to contact my dealer or does it come over the air? if i had to go to the dealer, how much will it cost?
and, I took my car to my dealer on Wednesday to see if they could figure out the problems. They said that there was a recall that should take care of it (something in a control panel)... so, they did the work and, surprise, surprise, no better.@@BMWofFW
Is iDrive 9 available yet for the 2024 i7? I assume I'll be notified inside the myBMW app, correct? If it's not available yet, do you know when it will be?
idrive 9 won't be out on the i7... only the X1 and 2 will be getting idrive 9 as of yet... all other models will have 8.5 as they're still Linux based systems.
@@BMWofFW how does one get 8.5 on a 2023 X7? I've read several places that the 23 X7 is supposed to have the update, but I keep checking the over the air, and I don't see anything. Does it have to be done at the dealer vs. OTA? Thank you!
On a 2024 X7. On a sunny hot day I leave my garage with the A/C set to AUTO, SYNC, VERY LOW, 72 degrees and I feel comfortable driving around. Then, I park somewhere outdoors for a few hours and obviously because the car is 100+ degrees inside, I decide to precondition before getting in. I notice the precondition is done at the same AUTO, SYNC, VERY LOW, 72 degrees which for me doesn’t make sense. The A/C should start at MAX A/C in order to balance the huge difference between interior temp and set temp. Moreover with such a weak A/C system. Is there a way to do it or am I doing something wrong?.
It’s working as designed… preconditioning works to maintain that 72 degrees, if you precondition as you are getting out the car is only needing to maintain the current temperature not drastically cool. In reverse if you left, DIDNT precondition, then remembered 5 minutes before and hit precondition on your myBMW App, the car would likely have gone up a few degrees and need faster more intense cooling to hit that requested 72degrees
@@BMWofFW it doesn’t make sense to have the system try to lower the interior temp by 35+ degrees in AUTO, VERY LOW just because that was the last setting when I got out of the car. It should do it in AUTO, VERY HIGH since it is not “a few degrees” difference. For me it is a really bad design.
It’s so cluttered. 😢 The moment you made Apple CarPlay come back all my anxiety left. Then you went back to Android and I almost broke my phone it just infuriates me and causes nausea.
@@BMWofFW : Ok ... Thanks... The salesman are saying they will be upgradeable. But from what I've read online , they won't be upgradeable. Not sure which one to believe.
@@sharavan21 I was told that Linux one will also be updated, but only for main UI aspects, so they look a bit the same. Will not be migrated from Linux to Android.
ANDROID? wtf! Apple CarPlay will run terribly on top of that OS. Android will make sure of that. Who the FKK uses the original BMW apps?? That whole system looks like shtt. Like something from windows 95 era. Apple CarPlay all the way. I thought bmw was moving closer towards apple. I’ll leave the brand if not. Let’s get real, Apple knows software and BMW knows cars. The first car to have CarPlay 2.0 where CarPlay controls every aspect like how the odometer looks and reads out to the AC will be the car brand I sell my soul and all my families soul to forever😂 I thought it was going to be BMW. But I guess not.
Interestingly enough the open ended platform on Android Automotive will give BMW the ability to run CarPlay 2.0 in the near future… that will give apple access to systems in the car to change the integration beyond a simple center screen, but also HUD and Instrument cluster control as well… i look forward to the moment it’s officially announced, especially when some car companies like GM are dropping Apple CarPlay all together.
