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Originally Posted by JABCAT
Just this week, I've had to reset iDrive in my '23 M2 4x. Yesterday I had to do it twice on a 10 min drive. It'll connect to CarPlay & start playing music, but the steering wheel controls won't work. I hit volume and a message pops up "no source available" or hit the forward track button and a message pops up "unknown track/unknown artist" and won't forward.
Sometimes if I put my phone in airplane mode for a second, it'll reset the connection. Sometimes that doesn't work & I have to hold down the power button for 30 seconds and have the entire thing reset.
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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.