BimmerGestalt AAIdrive

BimmerGestalt

About this app

🚙 Unlock the full potential of your BMW Connected Apps-enabled car running IDrive 4-6 to enhance your driving experience!

Combined with an active BMW ConnectedDrive subscription or the Mini Connected option, this project adds most of the features of Android Auto to your car as unofficial BMW/Mini Connected Apps:
🎵 See music apps on your phone as media sources in IDrive
🎙️ Interact with voice assistants installed on your phone
🔔 Read, listen and interact with notifications through the car's controls
📅 View your calendar in the car and start navigating to appointments
🗺️ Trigger car navigation from phone apps
👀 Read various diagnostic info and statistics from your car
🧩 Extend capabilities through optional add-ons (such as screen mirroring)
🚧 Custom map and navigation based on Mapbox

✨ By using the native BMW Apps protocol, exactly like the old Spotify app, this app does not modify your car in any way, and all of the extended capabilities are only provided while your phone is connected.

⚠️ BMW/Mini Connected Apps requires that the MyBMW or MINI app for your car is installed and that it can successfully enable your IDrive5+ car's Apps checkbox, or that your IDrive4 car has the ConnectedDrive Connection Assistant option. This usually requires having an active BMW ConnectedDrive subscription, which is typically included for a few years after you bought your new car.

Ratings and reviews

App is great to get some apps into older idrive. Using in a 4 and 7 series with ID6 and Amazon Music passes through well. Wish that the search in Amazon Music would show a list of items like it does in the app. It searches and plays any song with the name even if it isnt the version or artist you want. Only problem I have found is using the next and back feature. It seems that it only allows 5ish seconds before returning to the play screen. Have to keep navigating back to the buttons constantl

This finally fixes BMW's inability to update their iDrive in older models. THIS IS THE FIX. I have been using this as a beta user for over a year and it meets all my needs to integrate my audio players on my phone with my BMW. It works seamlessly. Album art is there for the music apps, I can listen to books with cover art (I use Smart Audiobook Player and it has the ability to load the cover art within its app), even Google's Play Book read aloud works. This really should be part of the stock My BMW app, but since it is not, is is a must install for all BMW owners.

This app works better than expected and does everything I want it to. The concern I have is that I gave the app access to my Spotify account yesterday upon setup. In less than 24hrs I had a fraudulent login on my Spotify account and had to change my password. Coincidence? It makes me concerned if I should continue using the app. I originally gave the app 3 stars but functionality deserves 5 stars. I'll report back if I experience more breaches but can't say for sure I was breached due to the app

What’s new

Maintenance updates
- Fix a crash on Samsung OneUI 8.5