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      05-20-2015, 03:21 PM   #23
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My genius told me last week that the new BMW iDrive reads the Android text and email messages directly but that with the iPhone you need to do a work around.

He couldn't tell me why.
I've only ever seen messages come through thew new iDrive in cars equipped with "Enhanced Bluetooth". Android will read them yes.. with iPhones you just get that little envelope in the top right corner of the iDrive screen.

Easiest way to tell if your phone can get messages through iDrive is to look into your bluetooth menu on your phone and see if "send notifications" is there and able to be checked off.
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      05-20-2015, 03:51 PM   #24
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I've only ever seen messages come through thew new iDrive in cars equipped with "Enhanced Bluetooth". Android will read them yes.. with iPhones you just get that little envelope in the top right corner of the iDrive screen.
Correct: BMW Office is part of the Enhanced USB + Bluetooth and Smartphone Integration (6NS) option.

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Easiest way to tell if your phone can get messages through iDrive is to look into your bluetooth menu on your phone and see if "send notifications" is there and able to be checked off.
This is only partially correct. The "Send Notifications" on/off switch should only show up in the Bluetooth "i" menu under your specific car's Bluetooth device name (usually "BMW [xxxxx]" only if your car has 6NS. However, iDrive must also allow you to check "Messages" when configuring your smartphone for BMW Office; in my car, this is not possible because iDrive recognizes iOS 8.3 and removes the option.
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On iOS devices using iOS 8.x, Messages DO show up on the iDrive display. You just have to tell your iPhone to send them there. Go to Settings / Bluetooth, then tap the little "i" that appears to the right of your paired BMW. A new screen will appear with options listed: Forget This Device; Show Notifications; Sync Contacts, etc. Switch "Show Notifications" to the "on" position, and you'll be all set. For some reason iOS ships with this option turned off (probably for privacy reasons).

I did this after upgrading to iOS 8 and it worked like a charm.
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      05-20-2015, 06:14 PM   #27
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      05-20-2015, 06:57 PM   #28
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Is this to be rolled out globally or is this US only?
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      05-20-2015, 06:58 PM   #29
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Question for two-BMW families - do you have both vehicles on the same BMW remote/BMW assist/connected drive account? Or one account per car/driver?

Second BMW is on order and I'm not sure if I need or want a second login for me.
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      05-20-2015, 07:44 PM   #30
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Well this sounded promising, but then I read the article.
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      05-20-2015, 08:17 PM   #31
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Question for two-BMW families - do you have both vehicles on the same BMW remote/BMW assist/connected drive account? Or one account per car/driver?

Second BMW is on order and I'm not sure if I need or want a second login for me.
Have two, one with my wife's email for her car and one with mine for mine. I have the remote app set up with mine. There is to my knowledge no way to toggle between accounts but it appears if they were both on the same account you could toggle between cars. For her car, I use iOS maps or google maps and "send to car" app.
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      05-20-2015, 10:38 PM   #33
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I looked at it. These services are really expensive.
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      05-20-2015, 10:43 PM   #34
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No complaints here, I was able to log into my account, remove my old 3er (BMWAssist could never actually get the car out of my profile and thus, out of the BMW Remote US app), I just did that now.

If I wanted to add 3 years to RTTI, that is an easy $150 charge.

It's not the most useful piece of kit, but long overdue and I look forward to the ease and simplicity of adding my next car to the profile.

Nice work BMW.
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      05-20-2015, 10:45 PM   #35
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Question for two-BMW families - do you have both vehicles on the same BMW remote/BMW assist/connected drive account? Or one account per car/driver?

Second BMW is on order and I'm not sure if I need or want a second login for me.
Use two accounts to send to the two different emails and thus two different cars. I have one for mine, one for my wife.
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      05-20-2015, 10:46 PM   #36
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I looked at it. These services are really expensive.
$150 for 3 years of RTTI isn't that expensive in my eyes?...internet on the other hand, total waste of money.

I really like RTTI, it works well for me.
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      05-21-2015, 05:00 AM   #37
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Question for two-BMW families - do you have both vehicles on the same BMW remote/BMW assist/connected drive account? Or one account per car/driver?

Second BMW is on order and I'm not sure if I need or want a second login for me.
Use two accounts to send to the two different emails and thus two different cars. I have one for mine, one for my wife.
Do you have both accounts on one app? I haven't figured out how to do that.
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      05-21-2015, 05:53 AM   #38
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Apple CarPlay.

First thought... Why choose to invest in reinventing the wheel by developing an app store, creating or modifying special apps and software on a proprietary platform?
Part of my guess would be that they already started the process of investing in/developing all of this before CarPlay was even announced.
Bravo!
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It tried to log in to the new portal with no luck. It requires a password change, and no matter what I put in, and adhere to all the requirements, I am told the password is improperly formatted. Anyone else with this issue?
Try ALL CAPS. (Don't know if this will work, but the i App apparently works better with ALL CAPS.)
Hmm...

Following the industry current password algorithm, I used a combination of #'s upper and lower case lettering + special characters. Works Without Flaw. 😄
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      05-21-2015, 08:11 AM   #41
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On iOS devices using iOS 8.x, Messages DO show up on the iDrive display. You just have to tell your iPhone to send them there. Go to Settings / Bluetooth, then tap the little "i" that appears to the right of your paired BMW. A new screen will appear with options listed: Forget This Device; Show Notifications; Sync Contacts, etc. Switch "Show Notifications" to the "on" position, and you'll be all set. For some reason iOS ships with this option turned off (probably for privacy reasons).

I did this after upgrading to iOS 8 and it worked like a charm.
I got the messages to show up but can't delete the messages. Are they stuck there?
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      05-21-2015, 11:48 AM   #42
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I got the messages to show up but can't delete the messages. Are they stuck there?
In my experience, the messages will stay as long as your phone remains connected to the car. Once you've disconnected your phone, they'll no longer be displayed.

If you wanted to delete them immediately, you'd have to press the "Option" button (at the base of the iDrive knob) then choose delete. In my version of iDrive, I can only delete messages one at a time, which is a little frustrating, so I stopped deleting them, and just choose to let them "disappear" when I disconnect my iPhone (read: stop driving and walk away from car).

Hope this info helps.
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Seriously. Over 70% of the world uses android devices yet Bmw continues to cater way too much to ios users. Let's hope they see the light soon. They obviously have the resources to cater to both.
Uh.. what? Ok.. well then over 100% of the world uses iOS since it's available everywhere. /randomnumberspulledfromahat.
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