Giant screen taken up 80% by the map instead of being able to see four customizable apps/widgets simultaneously, and the tiny box on the left where all the other apps/widgets are located isn’t customizable! You’re just stuck with the nonsensical order BMW came up with. I love my car so much and BMWs in general, but this definitely is a step in the wrong direction. Am I missing something?? Why would you do this, BMW?! WHY??!
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ID8 already feels like a massive downgrade from ID7. Can’t believe it’s gotten even worse…
It all might look nice and modern but it’s just a pain to use now.
Either you drive it as it is by default or you have to click through all sorts of menus to change things. Nothing really feels very intuitive.
I have my M2 for 3 months now and still get annoyed every single time when I want to turn on heated seats or turn off that stupid lane departure warning… every single time you get in the car the same procedure of clicking trough menus.
I used to love the BMW GPS system and the Spotify integration, now I just use Android Auto because they messed the rest up and I can’t get the BMW connected app to work. But for whatever reason Android auto drains you phone battery like crazy and it overheats in the wireless charger (I only have that problem in BMW not any other brand)
BMW used to always focus on the driver implementation and experience. You always had buttons where you’d need and expect them and could customize things to your liking (epsecially the programmable buttons)… and the car would remember your settings.
It feels like they just completely forgot about that and only focus on fancy big screens and pretend they are a smartphone manufacturer and the only measure of qualtiy for an infotainment is now if you can play games and get fancy colors.
At least once all is setup the car still feel great to drive and is loads of fun. But who knows how long that will last.
BMW refusing to integrate the new upcoming Apple CarPlay and then release mediocre software updates like this. This must be a joke.
I dislike the font now… its like a variation of comic sams😭
Is there any way to prevent the update? Can I just not install it. Weridly my M4 Comp got an update like last week but it wasn’t idrive 8.5, it just updated it from the March build to the July one but im still somehow on idrive 8.
I don’t think we’re getting idrive 8.5, needs newer hardware
It’s been confirmed the M3/M4 won’t get 8.5 the LCI. Also, when it is available the M cars will have the 8.5 backend software but no UI update since they have a unique setup.
It feels like they add things which they think are eye candies without any practicality.
I am still unable to figure out these two things:
- Does anyone know how to change the fan speed using a dial when Auto mode is off?
- How to pause/play a song from the steering wheel buttons?
8.0 is 10x worse
When did this update come out? I haven’t seen the update request yet.
Glad I’m still on idrive 7 lol
I’m on ID4 lol, this thread is rich people problems
Lol …What car do you have ?
I would gladly take the updated idrive 6 especially that nice home screen, but id4 is at least very fast and simple to use !
In my opinion iDrive 8 and 8.5 are only cool on M cars, its looks gaudy on electric BMWs and I’m not a fan over every other models scheme.
I dont even have my car yet and Im freaking out over these updates 😬
Hope they don’t roll this out on the X1 (U11) - I like ID8 just as it is - I don’t want 80% of the screen filled with the map as I rarely use the navigation.
Anyone else having issues launching the drive recorder after the update? Keep clicking the icon but get nothing.
At first I was pissed that my i4 from 12/22 doesn’t get the update to 8.5.
Now I feel different after reading things about 8.5.
