If you keep your music collection on CDs, you must be used to lacking song information on your BMW iDrive screen.

That’s exactly what the Gracenote update does to the music playing from your CDs. Oh, those earworms are annoying… even more so when you don’t know the actual song titles or performers ) Imagine how satisfying it would be to have any song fully identified on your BMW iDrive screen. Great for keeping up with all 8 buttons on your dashboard. Each time you gently put your finger on a button, you’ll see what option (or radio station) it leads to before you even press it. From now on, every time you press that button it will bring you to the specified option in your iDrive.Īnother convenient feature of the BMW radio buttons is their touch sensitivity.Highlight that option and hold a chosen radio button for a few seconds until it gives a confirmation chime.Navigate to an option you want to have easy access to - it can be your GPS, a contact, vehicle status, sport display, etc.What BMW radio presets do is turn your radio channel buttons into iDrive option buttons that bring you to any specific feature you program them to. You can do it by coding your BMW radio memory buttons. So, why not distinguish your favourite options and have them at your fingertips?

But let’s be honest, you’re usually using only a few of those BMW features frequently, while most just happen to be there. IDrive systems are rich with functions - they support radio channels, navigation, sport display, phone contacts and a host of others.

So to help you enjoy your iDrive even more, we’ve taken a look at the TOP 8 hidden BMW iDrive features that’ll add to the pleasure of driving. Well, let us surprise you :) BMW iDrive systems hide quite a few handy features that make your multimedia experience much more intuitive and personalized, without being so obvious at first glance. You use your iDrive system on an everyday basis and probably think there’s no function you've missed.

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