My iDrive controller is remapped so the Telephone button is now mapped to Nav but it's just a matter of getting used to it. Regional maps have not updated or downloaded yet but Steve's indicated it will happen.Ī couple of other quirks. The donor unit came from New York so I had to clear out radio presets and navigation destinations, but the nav is functioning fine. I do not have Apple devices so I haven't played with Carplay. I can cast my screen but without functionality. I have not been able to get Mirrorlink working properly yet with my S8+. I have working iDrive 6 with full functionality including being able to browse Spotify with a bluetooth connection and cover art: Took a lot longer getting it disconnected than reconnected. The good thing is all the connectors are colour coded so the reinstall is pretty easy. Some of the other ones just require pressure to release. The trick to some of them is there's a locking pin on the back of the connector. A few of the connectors were finicky to remove. I find the hazard and door lock connectors to be really difficult to reconnect to the upper air vent panel, so rather than remove it I used his trick of masking taping it to the nav screen so it's out of the way: First, a trick I found in another post from BEM-S4. I won't walk through all the steps of the re and re as that's documented elsewhere as well as the video on CodeMyBimmer's website with a couple of notes.

Steve also included a coding adapter in case he needed to step in and troubleshoot anything after the install: I received a replacement head unit along with a WiFi antenna for CarPlay and/or Screen Mirroring.

The unit arrived via UPS on Friday and I did the install yesterday. Answered all my questions and provided great customer service. Ordered the iDrive 6 retrofit from CodeMyBimmer.

Wanted BMW Apps via Bluetooth in particular. My M235i came with iDrive 4 and with the pending upgrade of online services in Canada to the same as the US and International thought it would be a good time to do the upgrade to iDrive 6.

Idrive 6 to 7 upgrade