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      03-24-2020, 01:29 PM   #1
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Did anyone get Screen Mirroring work with iPhone ? Not having any luck.
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Screen mirroring doesn't work with iPhone.
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      03-24-2020, 02:39 PM   #3
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Did anyone get Screen Mirroring work with iPhone ? Not having any luck.
Are you still in your 2010 diesel? There is a separate forum area for those, and you may get better answers. This area is for the G05 which is 2019 and later. Try the E70 area.

If you do have a 2019 or later and just haven't updated your profile, you would just use Apple CarPlay, but there is no mirroring.
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      03-24-2020, 02:43 PM   #5
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Did anyone get Screen Mirroring work with iPhone ? Not having any luck.
Are you still in your 2010 diesel? There is a separate forum area for those, and you may get better answers. This area is for the G05 which is 2019 and later. Try the E70 area.

If you do have a 2019 or later and just haven't updated your profile, you would just use Apple CarPlay, but there is no mirroring.
No. I forgot to change profile. Took delivery of G05 on 6th. Thanks either way.
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      03-12-2021, 02:46 PM   #6
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Screen mirroring doesn't work with iPhone.
Anyone know if coding allows iPhone screen mirror?
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Forgive my ignorance but with CarPlay, why would you need screen mirroring?
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Forgive my ignorance but with CarPlay, why would you need screen mirroring?
My experience with Apple Car Play is that it only offers a limited certain number of apps on the car whereas mirroring would simply show anything and everything that is on your phone, just like it does if you use it via Apple TV to mirror whatever is on any and all screens on your phone or iPad, onto the TV screen.
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My experience with Apple Car Play is that it only offers a limited certain number of apps on the car whereas mirroring would simply show anything and everything that is on your phone, just like it does if you use it via Apple TV to mirror whatever is on any and all screens on your phone or iPad, onto the TV screen.
Thank you for the clarity.

Personally I feel CarPlay does a good job of keeping overly distracting apps off the screen by limiting the CarPlay compatibility so I'd prefer that any day. But that's just what works for me/I feel safer with. Plus I never miss any of my standard apps that aren't CarPlay compatible.

I can see the appeal though even if my preferences are different.
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Thank you for the clarity.

Personally I feel CarPlay does a good job of keeping overly distracting apps off the screen by limiting the CarPlay compatibility so I'd prefer that any day. But that's just what works for me/I feel safer with. Plus I never miss any of my standard apps that aren't CarPlay compatible.

I can see the appeal though even if my preferences are different.
Yes, you are right, it certain fits the Apple - streamline - design approach. We've had it for a few years in my wife's car, I played around with it a couple of times but have no use for it. To each their own.
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Yes, you are right, it certain fits the Apple - streamline - design approach. We've had it for a few years in my wife's car, I played around with it a couple of times but have no use for it. To each their own.
I agree. It's not some majorly necessary thing. I mainly play my audiobooks and music over CarPlay which I could do with just Bluetooth all the same.

Occasionally Waze but it has such poor integration into the iDrive 7 platform that I actually prefer the onboard navigation.

If it was missing, definitely wouldn't be a dealbreaker for me
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      03-12-2021, 10:23 PM   #12
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Yes, you are right, it certain fits the Apple - streamline - design approach. We've had it for a few years in my wife's car, I played around with it a couple of times but have no use for it. To each their own.
I agree. It's not some majorly necessary thing. I mainly play my audiobooks and music over CarPlay which I could do with just Bluetooth all the same.

Occasionally Waze but it has such poor integration into the iDrive 7 platform that I actually prefer the onboard navigation.

If it was missing, definitely wouldn't be a dealbreaker for me
You can mirror your iPhone through carbridge app but you need to jail break first.

I use my old iPhone only for this purpose
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You iPhone guys don’t feel bad. I can’t seem to mirrocast my Android 10 phone either . I followed all the steps, just doesn’t seem to want to work.
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      03-13-2021, 08:35 AM   #14
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You iPhone guys don’t feel bad. I can’t seem to mirrocast my Android 10 phone either . I followed all the steps, just doesn’t seem to want to work.
How come? I have already succesfully mirrored a blackberry key2 (android 8) and galaxy s20 (android 10). I have to say though that it wasnt as straight forward as you'd expect. Here are the steps to the way I found most reliable;

- Connect your phone to bluetooth as a new phone.
- In the setting on idrive for that phone, select allow wifi connections.
- in idrive, go to screen mirroring option. it will prompt you to connect a device.
- on your phone, select miracast, screen mirroring or smart view if its a samsung.
- it will search for compatible displays, from there select the bmw miracast.

by then it should be mirroring to the idrive screen.
After that, you can simply go to screen mirroring, devices and click on your phone name to connect from idrive.

hope that helps.

Maher.
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      03-14-2021, 12:07 PM   #15
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How come? I have already succesfully mirrored a blackberry key2 (android 8) and galaxy s20 (android 10). I have to say though that it wasnt as straight forward as you'd expect. Here are the steps to the way I found most reliable;

- Connect your phone to bluetooth as a new phone.
- In the setting on idrive for that phone, select allow wifi connections.
- in idrive, go to screen mirroring option. it will prompt you to connect a device.
- on your phone, select miracast, screen mirroring or smart view if its a samsung.
- it will search for compatible displays, from there select the bmw miracast.

by then it should be mirroring to the idrive screen.
After that, you can simply go to screen mirroring, devices and click on your phone name to connect from idrive.

hope that helps.

Maher.
Thanks, I will try again. On a side note, whenever I choose allow wifi in idrive it always wants me to connect to the at&t “car wifi”. I get a pesky pop up on my phone that brings me to the at&t website. I already used my huge free 3 gb trial sub ( what a joke) and I won’t subscribe to at&t for 1GB a month at $35 that’s insane.
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did all I could but simply no video or screen mirroring with iphone.
anyone???
funny that on all older BMW's you could play dvd video by simply inserting it in
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Thanks, I will try again. On a side note, whenever I choose allow wifi in idrive it always wants me to connect to the at&t “car wifi”. I get a pesky pop up on my phone that brings me to the at&t website. I already used my huge free 3 gb trial sub ( what a joke) and I won’t subscribe to at&t for 1GB a month at $35 that’s insane.
I see your in Canada, In the States I get unlimited WiFi in car from AT&T for $10 or $15/month (I’ll have to look at my bill, I got a deal when I signed up/added to my phone plan but can’t remember the exact amount). I’m thinking of reducing my phone data plan because 90% of my usage is now on WiFi!
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How come? I have already succesfully mirrored a blackberry key2 (android 8) and galaxy s20 (android 10). I have to say though that it wasnt as straight forward as you'd expect. Here are the steps to the way I found most reliable;

- Connect your phone to bluetooth as a new phone.
- In the setting on idrive for that phone, select allow wifi connections.
- in idrive, go to screen mirroring option. it will prompt you to connect a device.
- on your phone, select miracast, screen mirroring or smart view if its a samsung.
- it will search for compatible displays, from there select the bmw miracast.

by then it should be mirroring to the idrive screen.
After that, you can simply go to screen mirroring, devices and click on your phone name to connect from idrive.

hope that helps.

Maher.
Thanks, I will try again. On a side note, whenever I choose allow wifi in idrive it always wants me to connect to the at&t “car wifi”. I get a pesky pop up on my phone that brings me to the at&t website. I already used my huge free 3 gb trial sub ( what a joke) and I won’t subscribe to at&t for 1GB a month at $35 that’s insane.
Yeah same here, in Canada the prices are ridiculous...
After connecting to the car wifi, go into your wifi settings on your phone and enable an option called "allow data connections to improve internet speed if wifi connection is weak" or something of that sort.
It just bypasses the car wifi altogether and uses your data for browsing.
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Thanks, I will try again. On a side note, whenever I choose allow wifi in idrive it always wants me to connect to the at&t “car wifi”. I get a pesky pop up on my phone that brings me to the at&t website. I already used my huge free 3 gb trial sub ( what a joke) and I won’t subscribe to at&t for 1GB a month at $35 that’s insane.
It's $20/month for unlimited when I got the trail
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It's $20/month for unlimited when I got the trail

You are in the USA. In Canada we have some of the highest internet and cell plan rates in the world.
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You are in the USA. In Canada we have some of the highest internet and cell plan rates in the world.
Come on over and pick a state
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