EDIT: Dealers now offering the upgrade) in TBHPĭisclaimer: I do not have any commercial affiliation with Gerry. TBHP member rishi_kapoor who created the first thread about CarPlay activation (Enabled! Apple CarPlay in my BMW 5-Series (G30).Coder Gerry who made the necessary coding updates to enable CarPlay.TBHP member abhi182 who gave me lots of initial information about BMW coding.Can’t switch between full screen and split screen modes.Can’t access recent call list on HUD or Instrument Cluster.
Shows only the current playing song with next or previous track selection Can’t access the song list on HUD or Instrument Cluster.Lacks HUD / Instrument cluster integration.Integrates apps like Spotify, iTunes, WhatsApp etc.Reads text messages, can do voice to text conversion, send text messages etc.CarPlay is very well implemented in iDrive.CarPlay is definitely a very good feature to take this calculated risk. Though this is still a remote chance, just be aware and be prepared. How much ever precautions you take like backing up original state, have a means to revert back to OE state etc., once you make changes to software in the iDrive, there is always that remote chance that BMW may detect this and create issues with warranty.Though this may be boring to read through, if you are planning to install CarPlay I would sincerely urge you to spend time and read through the details to save any hassles in the future. There is lot of technical jargon and information used in this thread.I would like to share all the information I learnt during this project, the mistakes I made, corrective actions taken etc., so that this may be helpful to prospective users who want to enable CarPlay in their BMWs. I recently helped a very close friend to install CarPlay on his BMW 3GT.