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Originally Posted by drilling
I heard the new apple carplay is a huge improvement and I am actually getting a new Iphone just for wireless charging. Since my phone will be wirelessly charged, can I just bluetooth my phone to the car and start apple carplay? I really want to use Google map as my navigation over BMW one.
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I can only really comment on this one. In concept, yes, that is what you can do. However, the CarPlay integration is still a little buggy and the wireless charging does not work well for everyone (including me). My phone overheats and shuts down while wirelessly charging and running Google Maps on CarPlay. On a long road trip, it overheats about once an hour, so I have to take it off and let it cool.
When it's working, CarPlay is beautiful and especially Google Maps. It looks fantastic on the huge screen.
The bugs for me include random phone disconnects, voice control button not always passing through, slow or non responsive heads-up display, and some random glitchy behavior when having to switch to iDrive to access car functions.
Theoretically these issues should be improved with forthcoming software updates from both BMW and Apple.