11-26-2018, 07:57 PM | #1 |
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New Idrive vs Apple CarPlay
After having my GO5 for a week and a half and taking a 400 mile trip I have some observations about the two.
Loving the new Idrive! So many options to interact with it. Apple Carplay is a disappointment. The only thing I find half way useful is Siri asking to reply to texts which the new Idrive can do as well. What observations do you have? |
11-26-2018, 08:30 PM | #2 |
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I too love the iDrive system. CarPlay is quite buggy, but when it is working right, it looks great on the X5's big screen, especially when running Google Maps. I have been going back and forth running the phone through iDrive vs. CarPlay.
I am disappointed that the track names don't always come through on iDrive when running the phone through it instead of CarPlay. I'm hoping these bugs will be worked out with software updates. Attached is a pic of running Google Maps through CarPlay. |
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11-26-2018, 09:03 PM | #5 |
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We've been using CarPlay, seems to work just fine but we only use it for Spotify and Audiobooks. iDrive nav worked great also for the most part, was able to understand and locate full addresses in other states on the first try, but the timing of arrival is always way off at the start. It way overestimates travel time. I had an old Audi that did the same thing and was basically pointless until you were less than 1 hour out. I assume it's an algorithm thing.
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11-27-2018, 03:37 AM | #8 |
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LOL. While I agree, I've generally found vehicle navigation systems to make all computations based on speed limits of remaining roads to destination, not how fast or slow you're actually driving. I guess to be fair, even if you're driving 55 on a 45 mph road A, when it tries to figure out how fast you're going to drive after turning onto road B, the best guess it could make is the speed limit of road B.
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11-28-2018, 08:01 PM | #10 |
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No. The only HUD driving adjustment is for the shift point indicator when in sport mode. The speed limit thing is annoying as hell, but it has already saved my ass. If it's really that annoying, you can always just turn the HUD off. It still annoys you in the IP display though.
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11-28-2018, 10:49 PM | #12 |
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I get Waze with no trouble but google maps will only show a satellite image and a very slow one at that...my phone google map is set on terrain... anybody have any clues as to why that might be? I can’t find much in the way of settings either....
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11-29-2018, 07:44 AM | #14 |
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CC, I had done that but wasn’t getting a regular map, just the satellite, but I just went out and turned it on and for the first time I had a map! ...without doing anything! Anyway, thank you for your response!
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12-20-2018, 09:23 AM | #15 |
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Is there a shortcut to toggle between CarPlay and iDrive 7? This morning I tried “Hey BMW, CarPlay” and that failed to execute anything. I also went to the settings screen and tried to save that page as a “favorite” but that did not work.
So what am I missing so I can toggle on the fly while driving? On a related front, when running iDrive 7 rather than CarPlay what happens when I have Waze going on my iPhone in the charging cradle? In other words, do I still audio warnings about police, accidents, radar hazards, etc?
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What things must be selected manually?
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"CAR" "Settings" "Driver Assistance" "Driving" "Speed Limit Assistant" Select desired setting: "Warn when speeding": activating/deactivating the flashing of the Speed Limit Info display in the instrument cluster and Head-up Display when the currently valid speed limit is exceeded. |
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12-20-2018, 10:03 AM | #20 | |
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1. iDrive alone 2. Carplay plus limited iDrive 1. With iDrive alone, all Hey BMW works, you're using iDrive nav, comms, etc. For the most part it seems to work great with the following exceptions: - doesn't load playlists on an iPhoneUsing iDrive alone would be my preferred solution, if I could still access all my music, Pandora, etc. from my phone. It'd be even better if it was over WiFi and not Bluetooth. 2. If you set your phone to Carplay, you can still access some limited iDrive features, maybe only the Nav and settings. You can switch back and forth multiple ways. For example, there is an icon at the top of the iDrive screen for CarPlay that you can hit to go back into CarPlay. You can then go back to iDrive by hitting the home button. Another is selecting the Comm button, takes you to the CarPlay phone app, etc. But, setting your phone to CarPlay seems to eliminate a lot of what "Hey BMW" can do (Hey BMW, call home" for example), which is frustrating. To reenable those features, you need to go back into the mobile device and set the device to use iDrive rather than CarPlay, but my experience is that changing them on the fly is buggy and you lose some access to phone features when you go back to iDrive from CarPlay. In case it helps, I imagine you can set one of the programmable buttons to change whether CarPlay or iDrive alone is chosen Personally, I find CarPlay to be cartoonish and a silly overlay in what is an otherwise beautiful interface. And, who wants to pay extra for it after a year? Wish BMW would just invest in continually making iDrive more feature rich and eliminate CarPlay altogether |
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12-20-2018, 10:33 AM | #21 | |
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My memory is that CarPlay takes over media, phone, and navigation. My list is home, I think. What you call programmable buttons is what I called favorites and that failed this morning. I already have phone numbers, radio stations, and nav destinations but I wanted to go straight to that specific settings like we could do with the F15.
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Anybody heard of this feature coming back in the future? |
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