[kjp]

Hi all,
First post and first time BMW owner so go easy on the BMW terminology with me

Since updating to IOS8 my iPhone5 does not seem to be able to properly be controlled via the iDrive (over USB Y cable). I can see the music on the iPhone and select music to play with iDrive (MY11 320d MSport), but it refuses to actually play anything, unless I manually press play on the iPhone itself.

On occasion after an iPhone reboot it works for a while and then fails again randomly.

Lots of people are complaining about exactly this on the apple forums. As usual Apple are silent on any issues they have caused. See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6584073?tstart=0

Has anyone had this problem and been able to solve it?

My entertainment system does not appear to be user (USB) upgradeable as there is no upgrade menu option. If it is the fix to upgrade I will have to get it done via my service guy at the next service.

I asked my local BMW service shop and got what I assume is the standard answer that they need to do a "scan" on the car to see what it says. The thing is the car is fine and it worked with IOS7. Apple changed things and are unlikely to fix it.

Regards,
Kent.

[BOTUS]

there's been 3 apple updates to try and sort this.... last one still hasn't fixed them properly.

iOS 9 heavily in dev so expect the same issue to linger for another few years...

[kjp]

The Apple IOS update notes make mention of attempting to fix bluetooth issues, but I have not seen any reference to this issue or iDrive/music via USB which is the problem I have.

With Apple pushing CarPlay now I'm not sure that they care enough to fix this.