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Originally Posted by Phillies8008
This is a fairly long-standing bug in iDrive 8/8.5 that doesn't look like it's ever going to be fixed. Drives me nuts.
One fix is to turn off WiFI on the phone and then let it reconnect CarPlay. The fix I use, since it shows up immediately upon startup is to turn off the car, open the car door, then close it and turn the car back on. This is a 100% fix for me and IMO is quicker than futzing with the phone. I've trained myself to look for it whenever I start the car.
Complete and total PITA but it's better at staring at "Unknown Artist", which unreasonably infuriates me. I'd like to think they'll eventually get this fixed, but it's been so long now that I've lost hope of that ever happening.
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I've noticed in both my M2 (iDrive 8) & my wife's X3MC (iDrive 7) when I connect bimmerlink & check for errors, very frequently there is an CarPlay connection error shown.
I don't want to mess with any software updates because I have the CS software on my M2 & BMW has locked the ability to re-install it if it gets wiped from an update.