IPhone cable adapter advice

[XJR9LM]

Just bought my wife a new mini and am trying to avoid buying yet another car/phone adapter cable as it doesnt support media over Bluetooth. Fortunately I have an old BMW Y cable which seems to work perfectly except its the old 30 pin model so wont work with a newer iPhone. There seem to be lots of 30 pin to new model 'Lightning' adapters available but with very mixed reviews and its not clear if audio transfer works or not. Has anyone bought/used one that they can recommend?

[craigjm]

The offficial apple one works fine
I used one with a similar cable in my Porsche Cayman S

[roofer]

If you have USB in it, just use the normal apple lightning lead.

[ladderino]

Bit of a mixed bag - depends on the year as to what it will support.

In my wife's 2012 Countryman, it would detect and charge an iPhone plugged in using the lightning cable, and some of the Mini Connected apps would work. Could browse albums, but it wouldn't play them - the Y cable was required to get audio to play.

Likewise, I'd seen that a lot of the lightning Y cables don't appear to work properly, so we just ditched the cable in the end and did everything over bluetooth.

Give the lightning cable a go. If that doesn't work, and given that yours doesn't have bluetooth, buying either a 3.5mm cable or one of the cheapo USB bluetooth adapters (which plug into the line in) on Amazon is probably the cheapest option.

[mudster]

XJR9LM said:

Just bought my wife a new mini and am trying to avoid buying yet another car/phone adapter cable as it doesnt support media over Bluetooth. Fortunately I have an old BMW Y cable which seems to work perfectly except its the old 30 pin model so wont work with a newer iPhone. There seem to be lots of 30 pin to new model 'Lightning' adapters available but with very mixed reviews and its not clear if audio transfer works or not. Has anyone bought/used one that they can recommend?

As craigjm mentioned, the official Apple adapter works fine. I have the same set up in my 3 series as I have no USB input, but have an old Y cable (pre lightning). For what it's worth, you can add a Lightning extension cable to the Apple adapter if needed and it still works fine. The Lightning extensions aren't official Apple and quite poor quality and tend to fall to bits eventually (but they do work though).

[XJR9LM]

Thanks all for the advice and input, much appreciated.