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??!
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.