![]() ![]() It's been working with only a couple of hiccups here and there, connecting automatically as soon as I start my car, until yesterday afternoon, so I don't know what caused the problem other than the potential car software update. Anyway, updating the car's software didn't fix the issue in the iPhone app, and so they transferred me to customer service, which fixed the problem again, hopefully not temporarily.Ī couple of hours later, I was leaving work, and CarPlay didn't connect. You just hit "OK", and it cycles for a minute, but you could do it again and again without the car ever telling you that you're up-to-date. This is basically just a check- I'm not sure if it actually updated because "your software is up-to-date" doesn't exist. I've had to call a couple of times, which fixed the issue temporarily, but yesterday the BMW Genius help line had me get in the car and update the car's software in iDrive. The ConnectedDrive iPhone app has said on and off for the past couple of weeks that I didn't have a subscription (I do). I only explain this because it may or may not be related. I updated my phone to iOS 14.2.1 on November 20th, and my car's software was possibly updated yesterday (but maybe not). Now I know that, for future ConnectedDrive updates, I might have to reactivate CarPlay afterwards. I have no idea how the CarPlay box got unchecked, but I can only guess that it had something to do with updating ConnectedDrive when I was trying to solve my ConnectedDrive app problems with the BMW Genius. Now that I've seen it again, I recalled that this is exactly how I set it up the day I bought the car. Then, on my iPhone, I went to Settings>General>CarPlay and saw my car in the list ("BMW" followed by a 5-digit number). I had my car "forget" my phone and my phone "forget" my car. On my screen it wasn't visible until I scrolled down a bit. In iDrive 6, go to Manage Mobile Devices>Settings, CarPlay has a box that should be checked/ticked. I didn't even know it was possible, but it was just that simple. In trying to turn off WiFi (as suggested in the comments) as a last-ditch effort to try to solve this issue, I found a slightly buried menu where, for some reason, CarPlay was turned off. The other frustrating aspect is that a lot of videos I found online show either older iDrive systems or iDrive 7. ![]() So maybe this isn't that silly, but still, it was a stupid checkmark solution, just not as easily found as it should be, in my very humble opinion, as I'm not an engineer or IT expert, in iDrive. I feel a bit sheepish, like when the IT guy asks you if your computer is plugged in, and you respond, "Of course it is," only to find that it isn't. EDIT: SOLVED! I bolded the important parts for those who just want the answer. ![]()
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