The below is to provide information on a possible way to get your iPhone to provide turn by turn navigation prompts over the F3X's speakers for cars without the Enhanced Bluetooth option. I am not sure if this will work for certain and I cannot test it myself since not only has my car been in the bodyshop the past six weeks, I do have the enhanced Bluetooth option.
Just a bit of background, Bluetooth actually has several different profiles that serve different functions. For instance, the A2DP profile (available in an F30 with enhanced BT only) is only used for transmitting stereo audio one-way, i.e. streaming audio over bluetooth. In order to make/receive phonecalls over Bluetooth, cars use Head Set Profile (HSP) and/or Hands-Free Profile (HFP). I am not certain if the F3X with standard Bluetooth uses HSP or HFP; however, all evidence points to it using HFP.
Now, the Maps app in the iPhone actually uses A2DP for outputting sound over BT. Because of this, you will not be able to get it to output sound over the car's speakers unless you have enhanced BT. However, beginning with iOS 7.1, Apple added HFP as a secondary profile to the app. Strangely enough, they didn't bother to advertise it much, if at all.
I came to know about this feature on a recent business trip where I had a Chevy Equinox rental that also only had Bluetooth for making/receiving calls. So, in order to test if this will in fact work in the F30 w/o enhanced BT, try the following...
1. Let your iPhone connect to the car
2. Go into Maps and set a destination and begin Guidance
3. Touch the volume button on the lower right corner of the screen
4. Under Output, you will have "iPhone" and "[your BMW]". Select your BMW
5. Turn on "Allow HFP prompts"
If everything works as it should, each time Maps is ready to provide the next guidance prompt, your iDrive screen's display will change as if a call is being made/received and sound will output from the car's speakers. Once that particular prompt has ended, the "call" will end and the car will resume playing music or whatever until Maps is ready to provide the next instruction.
In case none of what I said above makes a lick of sense, read up the below and then test it out.
Maps navigation prompts through your car***8217;s stereo over Bluetooth
For anybody that does test, please do report back to confirm whether or not this works.
Lastly, I did search to see if this had been posted before and didn't find anything. If it has been, my apologies in advance.
Just a bit of background, Bluetooth actually has several different profiles that serve different functions. For instance, the A2DP profile (available in an F30 with enhanced BT only) is only used for transmitting stereo audio one-way, i.e. streaming audio over bluetooth. In order to make/receive phonecalls over Bluetooth, cars use Head Set Profile (HSP) and/or Hands-Free Profile (HFP). I am not certain if the F3X with standard Bluetooth uses HSP or HFP; however, all evidence points to it using HFP.
Now, the Maps app in the iPhone actually uses A2DP for outputting sound over BT. Because of this, you will not be able to get it to output sound over the car's speakers unless you have enhanced BT. However, beginning with iOS 7.1, Apple added HFP as a secondary profile to the app. Strangely enough, they didn't bother to advertise it much, if at all.
I came to know about this feature on a recent business trip where I had a Chevy Equinox rental that also only had Bluetooth for making/receiving calls. So, in order to test if this will in fact work in the F30 w/o enhanced BT, try the following...
1. Let your iPhone connect to the car
2. Go into Maps and set a destination and begin Guidance
3. Touch the volume button on the lower right corner of the screen
4. Under Output, you will have "iPhone" and "[your BMW]". Select your BMW
5. Turn on "Allow HFP prompts"
If everything works as it should, each time Maps is ready to provide the next guidance prompt, your iDrive screen's display will change as if a call is being made/received and sound will output from the car's speakers. Once that particular prompt has ended, the "call" will end and the car will resume playing music or whatever until Maps is ready to provide the next instruction.
In case none of what I said above makes a lick of sense, read up the below and then test it out.
Maps navigation prompts through your car***8217;s stereo over Bluetooth
For anybody that does test, please do report back to confirm whether or not this works.
Lastly, I did search to see if this had been posted before and didn't find anything. If it has been, my apologies in advance.