[midwestbmwguy]

Starting to get frustrating. When listening to XM radio. And somebody picks up a saint phone to look at a webpage it turns off the XM. This is happening with the iPhone which is also on airplay.
This whole system is quirky.

[gpitts]

Originally Posted by midwestbmwguy

Starting to get frustrating. When listening to XM radio. And somebody picks up a saint phone to look at a webpage it turns off the XM. This is happening with the iPhone which is also on airplay.
This whole system is quirky.

I'm guessing your phone is connected to the vehicle's WiFi? Seems very odd that this would happen - certainly should not be the desired outcome of this use-case!

[Tenac]

Yeah this doesn't happen to me. Often the wife is even playing you tube or browsing shopping sites while I drive. Her and my phone both synced up. She also has a habit of playing her music from her phone.......

Wonder if this is a Iphone thing with the airplay??? I have android so dunno.

[midwestbmwguy]

If anybody can think of a solution please let me know it bugs the hell out of me. How do you turn off the Wi-Fi function. I don’t think I need it for anything

[gpitts]

Originally Posted by midwestbmwguy

If anybody can think of a solution please let me know it bugs the hell out of me. How do you turn off the Wi-Fi function. I don’t think I need it for anything

I believe that the car needs to connect to your phone via WiFi to interact with CarPlay (I don't use the feature in my vehicle, so I'm certainly not an authoritative voice on this capability). I ran across the following PDF on BMW's Connected Driver website that may be of some help:

https://www.bmwusa.com/content/dam/b...patibility.pdf

Note in particular pages 5 and 6.

[smovva]

Originally Posted by midwestbmwguy

Starting to get frustrating. When listening to XM radio. And somebody picks up a saint phone to look at a webpage it turns off the XM. This is happening with the iPhone which is also on airplay.
This whole system is quirky.

Happens on our X5 also but its because the wife's iPhone received a call, or she browsed to a web site that is generating audio such as youtube, cnn, cbs etc. I turned on TimeShift on the SiriusXM settings so the Sirius/XM program I am listening to will be buffered and play once she is done with her call etc so I won't miss anything.

[LexxM3]

Originally Posted by smovva

Happens on our X5 also but its because the wife's iPhone received a call, or she browsed to a web site that is generating audio such as youtube, cnn, cbs etc. I turned on TimeShift on the SiriusXM settings so the Sirius/XM program I am listening to will be buffered and play once she is done with her call etc so I won't miss anything.

^ this seems the likely culprit. Consider (at least as a diagnostic) BT-unpairing the offending phone - you don't need to be BT paired to use the wifi hotspot. If this fixes the issue, then core issue is BT intervention with the car audio as part of the hands-free BT profile (HFP profile, I believe).

If it is the latter, I believe there is a per-paired phone setting parameter that might help, but it will disable the ability to use the car cell phone speakerphone with that specific BT-paired phone as well.

[Grentz]

You need to turn off car play. Your phone is sending a signal to the car that it wants to play audio from the web page and the car flips to phone audio source when in carplay.