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      09-13-2023, 04:29 AM   #23
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Has anyone confirmed if AR (live picture) works with Android / Apple maps on the main screen? I have not got it to show using anything but BMW navigation.
At least on ID8 (not tested on ID8.5), AR only works with BMW maps on either screen.
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I've only had my car for a month now ('24 M60i) and it is still on iDrive 8, but I have noticed 2 things working that I wasn't aware would work:

- Instrument Cluster and HUD showing Apple Maps directional info when using Apple Maps on CarPlay. This includes lane guidance in the HUD and in the navigation panels of the Instrument Cluster.

- Apple Maps display on the Instrument Cluster, and CarPlay apps (could be Maps with a different view, or Music, etc.) on the center screen. (See attached photos.)

Both features are quite nice to have available. Maybe this is well-known but I had thought these were not possible given various threads I've read here.
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I've only had my car for a month now ('24 M60i) and it is still on iDrive 8, but I have noticed 2 things working that I wasn't aware would work:

- AR and HUD showing Apple Maps directional info when using Apple Maps on CarPlay. This includes lane guidance in the HUD.

- Apple Maps display on the driver screen, and CarPlay apps (could be Maps with a different view, or Music, etc.) on the center screen. (See attached photos.)

Both features are quite nice to have available. Maybe this is well-known but I had thought these were not possible given various threads I've read here.
you may have confused what is and isn’t possible between vehicles with iDrive 7 versus iDrive 8. with iDrive 7 in my 2021 45e, displaying CarPlay apps on the infotainment screen (control display) isn’t new, but it can’t display the Apple Maps topographic map view on the instrument cluster like iDrive 8 can. even with its Map View, it just displays turn by turn arrows and street names, exit numbers, etc., like we get in our HUD. it’ll show the map only when using the native Navi.

you’ll discover many things when you play around with the settings more
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you may have confused what is and isn’t possible between vehicles with iDrive 7 versus iDrive 8. with iDrive 7 in my 2021 45e, displaying CarPlay apps on the infotainment screen (control display) isn’t new, but it can’t display the Apple Maps topographic map view on the instrument cluster like iDrive 8 can. it just displays turn by turn arrows and street names, exit numbers, etc., like we get in our HUD.

you’ll discover many things when you play around with the settings more
Yes for sure, I have no idea what happens in iDrive 7, I'm only speaking to iDrive 8 (and learning all the features...). I should clarify having just now driven the car (will edit my post) that in ID8 it's not the "AR" view on the Instrument Cluster central display that shows any Apple Maps directions, it's the "Navigation system route preview" that has arrows & distances telling you how far ahead your next turn is and such -- in fact I think it's the equivalent of what your photo shows. And as mentioned the "Navigation system map view" which can show the map from Apple Maps.

Looking at the user manual to get the correct terminology, I see they call the two screens the "Instrument Cluster" (driver side) and the "Control Display" (center). And the Instrument Cluster has a "Central display range" with the selectable content to display.
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      09-14-2023, 11:42 AM   #27
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if your iPhone is connected via CarPlay and you entered a destination in Apple Maps, you may be able to use Waze ‘on the side’ as long as you don’t enter a destination in that program. (does Waze even work that way?) iDrive knows when one navigation system is active so it will notify if trying to enter an address in another. you can bypass this limitation by not connecting via CarPlay at all, but you will lose HUD directions
Yes waze works like that too , in my AA that's the setup i use everyday . I use bmw navigation all the time since i coded M HUD with M track module and waze on the screen to see police activity lol without entering the destination in waze . I noticed using bmw navigation that it works very close to Google maps like traffic conditions, eta , route suggestions are almost the same the only thing missing is cops location
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I've only had my car for a month now ('24 M60i) and it is still on iDrive 8, but I have noticed 2 things working that I wasn't aware would work:

- Instrument Cluster and HUD showing Apple Maps directional info when using Apple Maps on CarPlay. This includes lane guidance in the HUD and in the navigation panels of the Instrument Cluster.

- Apple Maps display on the Instrument Cluster, and CarPlay apps (could be Maps with a different view, or Music, etc.) on the center screen. (See attached photos.)

Both features are quite nice to have available. Maybe this is well-known but I had thought these were not possible given various threads I've read here.
Now is possible using Waze , maps in dashboard and central screen
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