This new scattershot strategy looks like it was designed to be navigated exclusively via touchscreen – and therefore staring at something other than the road for a longer period of time. The previously-used column style menu for vehicle settings was much more fitting for iDrive knob navigation via scrolling and rocking. Accessible via the home screen of customizable tiles, the new iDrive menu just looks like the app drawer of someone else’s phone you just picked up. Meanwhile, the new settings “menu” is a maze of icons. #BMW #carsoftiktok ♬ original sound - Autoblog There is still a hard button on the center console that you can tap to put it into “Sport Traction” mode (our favorite for enthusiastic motoring), but instead of just tapping the button, now you must tap the button, then tap twice more on the touchscreen to fully activate “Sport Traction.” Why!? BMW’s iDrive 8 infotainment system is a step backwards in many ways
Then there’s the BMW’s Dynamic Stability Control settings. Predictably, it’s more time-consuming to operate and far trickier to fiddle with while driving than the nice row of buttons BMW employed previously. The same goes for fan speed, direction of the fan and anything else you can think of re: climate controls. BMW removed all of the hard climate controls from the center stack besides front and rear defrost, then tucked them into a new “climate menu.” Temperature control remains docked at the bottom of the touchscreen, but if you want to activate your heated seats, it requires a trip through the climate menu. Take, for instance, the climate controls.
Something that could’ve been done with a single tap in a iDrive 7-equipped BMW now requires upwards of three or more taps. What the vast majority of my grievances boil down to is added complexity to complete tasks. Unfortunately, iDrive 8 takes a lot of iDrive 7’s best qualities, then throws them out the window entirely for a replacement that is worse. Most of us on staff would agree that these are all big pluses for iDrive 7, including my co-writer for this piece, Senior Editor James Riswick.īoth Riswick and I (Road Test Editor Zac Palmer) spent separate weeks in new BMW i4s that feature iDrive 8, and we came away with similar complaints.
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The software itself is glitch-free, super-quick to respond, and the menu structure makes sense. There’s a perfect blend of hard controls and touchscreen controls for vital vehicle functions, and the iDrive knob ties it all together in a happy harmony. It hurts me to say this, too, for I’m easily the biggest advocate of iDrive 7 on staff here at Autoblog. That’s the way it’s supposed to work, but BMW’s iDrive 8 does not follow this line of thinking. The software is tweaked to be better, and you gain more capabilities than before.
Screens become more responsive, brighter and clearer. And i have added option S7M9 option to VO.Īfter adding this option to VO the car was at least 5x updated and in iDrive is still the same.Under normal circumstances, one would expect an infotainment system to improve in every way as it transitions from one version to the next. I also have retrofited OEM M3 mirror caps and whole Extended Shadowline package (black honeycomb grill, black front brake vent frames and black exhaust tips). On mine is Dravit M340i with Cerium grey parts, 793i rims (i have them) and Laser lights (i have them too). The car that shows now looks like an M340i with 791M wheels and laser lights. I have an M-Sport 330i with LED headlamps. Restored to a previous backup… should’ve taken a pic before screwing with anything. I’m on 07/2021 software, am I missing something? I was hoping to change my grill to the black version.
Pretty much everything I tried changed the car to a Sportline 330i. Played with this today… didn’t work out how I was hoping.
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