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      04-20-2019, 01:42 PM   #1
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Is anyone having issues with their iPhone connecting to the car. Mine is doing intermittently
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Is anyone having issues with their iPhone connecting to the car. Mine is doing intermittently
Yes sometimes works great other times I have issues and have to reboot I-Drive to get it to connect. I-Drive has also frozen on us twice where we could not do anything and had to reboot.

It definitely gets confused when two paired phones are in the car at the same time. My wife has to turn off her Bluetooth off so that my phone can connect. I am definitely waiting on a software update to fix this issue.
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Is anyone having issues with their iPhone connecting to the car. Mine is doing intermittently
No issues so far. Keeping fingers crossed!
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No issues so far. Keeping fingers crossed!
Are you using CarPlay or Bluetooth only?
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Is anyone having issues with their iPhone connecting to the car. Mine is doing intermittently
You are one of many
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So I had this issue on my X7, and my husband had it on his X5 (both are iDrive 7.0). He used Apple CarPlay, and I use the BMW system (because I hate carplay but I digress). We both had intermittent phone calls, music would stop, and in one case, my iDrive screen went black while driving and talking on the phone via Bluetooth, and appeared to reboot. Soooo after freaking out a little, we started over. We removed our phones from both car's bluetooth systems, set the iPhones (iPhone 10S's in our case) to forget the cars, rebooted the phones, and re-paired with the car again. Since our phones were the first to pair with the cars, my hope is that there is a "first-phone-to-connect" bug in there somewhere because ever since, we haven't had any issues.
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How to use Wireless Charging ?
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How to use Wireless Charging ?
Please help me !
You just place your phone on top of the wireless charging pad, screen up. The pad is behind cup holders. A little blue light will illuminate between the phone and the cup holder to show it's charging,an icon will appear on the idrive screen as well. Is your phone wireless charging capable?
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How to use Wireless Charging ?
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Also, it has to be a relatively new phone. I wanna say iPhone 8 or later.
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Also, it has to be a relatively new phone. I wanna say iPhone 8 or later.
Correct, iPhone 8 was the first to include wireless charging.
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How to use Wireless Charging ?
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Hey, Artsardar welcome! Bishkek has a special place in my heart. I spent quite a bit of time there, will tell you stories later.

Wireless Charging is pretty easy. You need a phone that has Qi wireless charging capability. Then you just place it on the wireless charging pad, and it automatically starts charging. Worked flawlessly for my iPhone XS Max.
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So I had this issue on my X7, and my husband had it on his X5 (both are iDrive 7.0). He used Apple CarPlay, and I use the BMW system (because I hate carplay but I digress). We both had intermittent phone calls, music would stop, and in one case, my iDrive screen went black while driving and talking on the phone via Bluetooth, and appeared to reboot. Soooo after freaking out a little, we started over. We removed our phones from both car's bluetooth systems, set the iPhones (iPhone 10S's in our case) to forget the cars, rebooted the phones, and re-paired with the car again. Since our phones were the first to pair with the cars, my hope is that there is a "first-phone-to-connect" bug in there somewhere because ever since, we haven't had any issues.
Update: phone connectivity continued to work, but audio cut out in the X7 again. Switched phone to Car Play via iDrive, and authorized it via iPhone. Music doesn't skip now. Will see if it sticks. God I hate Car Play, but at least hitting "Home" key takes me to BMW home screen and hitting the Nav key takes me to BMW nav.
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Update: phone connectivity continued to work, but audio cut out in the X7 again. Switched phone to Car Play via iDrive, and authorized it via iPhone. Music doesn't skip now. Will see if it sticks. God I hate Car Play, but at least hitting "Home" key takes me to BMW home screen and hitting the Nav key takes me to BMW nav.
I've had the Nav key taking me to Apple Maps. Other users reported the same behaviour on G05 forum.
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Interesting. I noticed that even though I'm home, and the car is locked, my X7 has been added under the general section of my iPhone. Haven't found out the details yet but I'm sure it has to do with wireless CarPlay.
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I am now a few days in on my X7 and my iPhone X (running up to date firmware) is either a) not connecting at all or b) disconnecting after a few seconds about half the time I start the car. Both for CarPlay and standard BMW nav modes.

My fix is to toggle the iPhone into Airplane Mode 'on', wait 5 seconds, and toggle Airplane Mode to 'off'. This restores functionality most of the time.

Very frustrating. Has anyone reported this to BMW?
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