BMW Driver's Guide

BMW GROUP

About this app

The Driver’s Guide is a vehicle-specific* Owner's Handbook for selected BMW models**.

When using this system for the first time, you require an Internet connection. Once you have entered the vehicle identification number (VIN) the Owner's Handbook that matches your vehicle is downloaded and is then also available without an internet connection. Within the Driver's Guide you can manage a number of vehicles.

Find out about the benefits of your vehicle with the complete Owner's Handbook, a Picture Search or explanatory animations. The better you know the vehicle, the less effort you need when driving.


Depending on the specific vehicle, all or a selection of the following content is available to you:
- The complete Owner's Handbook.
- Brief instructions.
- A search by topics.
- A search by pictures to find functions.
- Explanatory animations.
- Solutions depending on the situation, on the basis of quick links.
- Explanations of the warning and indicator lamps.
- Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ).
- PDF Owner's Manuals.


*Dependent on model and model year.
**The Driver’s Guide is available for:
- BMW 1 Series partly as of model year 2012, completely as of 2015
- BMW 2 Series models
- BMW 3 Series partly as of model year 2012, completely as of 2014
- BMW 4 Series models
- BMW 5 Series partly as of model year 2010, completely as of 2011
- BMW 6 Series partly as of model year 2012, completely as of 2013
- BMW 7 Series as of model year 2009
- BMW 8 Series as of model year 2018
- BMW X models partly as of model year 2011, completely as of 2014
- BMW Z4 as of model year 2009
- BMW M models partly as of model year 2013, completely as of 2014
- BMW i3
- BMW i8

Additional PDF owner’s manuals:
- All BMW models as of 1998
- All BMW i models as of 2013


Supplementary information can be found in other brochures in the on-board documentation.

BMW wishes you pleasant and safe driving.

Ratings and reviews

Two issues with the app. 1) After every single feature, there is a box asking 'Is this useful?'. That's really not useful for the ease of use of the app. 2) You know what features are fitted to my car. The app knows which car I have. However, the app is generic and shows every single available feature, with barely any indication of what may or may not be fitted to my car. That can be confusing and frustrating.

A nice manual, however having to reset a password every time I go to use it is incredibly frustrating and prevents me from actually using it as it is quicker to Google it.

This version of the app does not open up as it tells me my username or password is incorrect. (They are both correct) However, the Apple version of this app works fine on my iPad. This android app worked ok until the update on the 14th Feb. BMW must be aware of this and could have reverted to the previous version of the app while they work on a permanent fix. Very poor show.

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements