F20 USB iPhone 6 Connection Help

[Vickyc1982]

Hi Everyone,

First time posting on this forum so please forgive my ignorance!

I recently became the owner of a 2014 1 Series 118d M-Sport. I have two USB ports in my vehicle, one in the glove box and one in the centre next to the aux input. The USB input in the centre will only charge my iPhone 6 and the car does not recognise anything is plugged in?! Does anybody know why this is?! I can play music through the aux but would like to have the ability to use the car to skip etc as I'm obviously not going to start playing with my phone while I'm driving

I have tried to update the software to UPD01008 but despite formatting my USB to FAT32, the car is telling me no software is available. When I plugged the USB stick in, the car did recognise it was connected and I was able to see tracks on the USB. It just doesn't want to know about my iPhone it seems!

I have Bluetooth telephony on the car which works fine, how easy(and costly) is it to get the iDrive updated to stream music via Bluetooth?

Any help anybody could give me would be much appreciated. My previous vehicle was a Fiesta Zetec which streamed and recognised my phone without any trouble hence my total ignorance with regard to iDrive and cars with actual computers!! I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong, it's really beginning to frustrate me now. I feel like my 83 year old granddad trying to work out a tablet!

TIA

[va1o]

Is it a very early 2014 car? They added Bluetooth Audio streaming standard fit in week 10 that year, so anything built since then should have it. Before then you needed the Enhanced Bluetooth option for streaming to work. This can be coded in relatively easily via the likes of Bimmercode using an iCar 2 Wifi OBD dongle, or E-sys/ Carly etc.

I'm surprised USB doesn't work as my M135i is the same age and I just plug my iPhone (6S) into the armrest socket using to standard Apple cable. Maybe that's because I have Pro Nav, does yours just have the basic iDrive or business Nav perhaps?

[Vickyc1982]

Thanks for getting back to me! Been unable to reply to this forum post.

The car was manufactured in Jan 2014 hence no enhanced Bluetooth and I have a business sat nav which is probably why the iPhone isn't being recognised! Willlook into the solutions you suggested

[Pugster]

If you don't have the Enhanced Bluetooth you need a Y cable.

This is the genuine one from BMW:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BMW-Genuine-iPhone-Audio-...

You can find others all over ebay but there's no guarantee they work.

For some unknown reason, if you have Enhanced Bluetooth you can use a standard lightning cable. Go figure