Hello and welcome to our BMW idrive
7.0 tech help video in this video
We hope to give you a better understanding of the system by taking a very detailed look at the all-new version of aia drive
Updated for 2020 and found in nearly all new BMW products
We will be covering all of the features, but feel free to skip around to the parts that are particular interest to you
Let's get started. So this is the brand new version of I Drive called I Drive 7.0
So start out with one of the big features of this system is that it can be controlled in several different ways
now in addition to your regular
Controller knob which a pmws have always had
You now have the ability to control via a touchscreen. So that's now a touchscreen up here
Now you also have the ability to use voice commands
to
To speak to the system using the new voice assistant. So as far as the software itself, we'll start out with our home screens
You now have up to 10 reconfigurable home screen. So each of these you can choose
What type of things to fill in for your tiles and then to reconfigure these home screens
All you have to do is reach up here and hit that button right there
Then that basically just allows you to add a new page or change the layout so we can hit here we can say we want
traffic
Navigation or it not feel
To be really specific about things as you can see. Okay now I
Have now made a page, which is basically my traffic page. So I've got the traffic view as well as the traffic messages
They're moving beyond that you have several shortcut buttons down here on the side. This represents the main sections of the iDrive system
So we'll start out in media
Here in media, of course is where all of your
things that pertain to audio
So right now I'm connected to the standard Bluetooth and I can see my entire queue and select song straight from here
You can also switch my different sources right over here so I can go into things like our XM satellite radio
And we can see all the different radio stations
We can also play and pause
The music as it's playing live and we can go and also check for different channels like that next up
We have our communications. This is just your telephone section, basically
takes you straight into your telephone recent calls yourself your contacts, which you can automatically
Just scroll through like that, or you can start to draw out letters finally control
We also have text messages support
So you'll see all of your text messages which automatically sync over from your phone and you can just click straight into them
You can have the read aloud on May 11th
2019 at 12:36 p.m. And garage or that
And then you can call forward and also reply to different things. You can dictate it verbally
The next thing we have is our navigation
This is standard on most BMWs as long as you have larger display
So as you can see our main screen basically brings us up some options on the side as well as part of our map
So we can click straight into the map itself. And as you can see you have really nice graphics. They are 3d right now
and if you zoom out to a certain extent once you get out far enough
We will go into a satellite view if that is enabled
We can do that by going into our map settings so a perspective auto zoom and
Then we can go and turn on 3d buildings and satellite imagery. So as you can see now we have kind of a
More realistic view of what is in the surroundings
Then back over here to our menu. We can swipe that back out
We can search by points of interest so we can find fuel stations or charging stations since this is specific car is an electric
Seven series so we can see Walmart and West Cincinnati West Chester, Ohio and we can start guiding it straight there
Now checking out the car
Button here this of course varies depending on which BMW you actually have
But we can see things like our driving status this just tells us different things about our car
How much the oil the tire pressures and all four wheels?
Just kind of keeps you in the know you can also do driving information
This is going to be a trip data. You can also activate sport displays
So you can see things neat things even like your GU meter right here
now seeing that flash it up reminds me a
lot of new BMWs come equipped with
Gesture control. So in this specific model, you can among other things you can do the circular motion
Turn up your audio volume and then twist backwards to turn it. Yes, very easy to spite this call away to the voicemail like this
Or to accept the call. I just have to point like this on top of that
We have one gesture that can be individually configured by our customer
This is the two gesture could potentially be switching off the display like in this case now
There's are a lot of different features in this car. So if you get confused
BMW has given you a
owner's manual down here at the bottom that you can quit quickly quickly click into
and search for various things like
Convinced to search by a keyword or by topic so we could say I'm having trouble with
controls
The iDrive system
And then you can find a specific topic I can get destructions about it
Now one of the coolest things about the IRI 7.0 system is that it comes with the new BMW
assistant
So basically it has a launch phrase
That you can save to the vehicle
You can ask it various different commands and it uses an AI system to discern these things and there's a lot of neat features
So I'll go ahead and show you a few of them
So the launch phrase is hey BMW, however, you can actually rename it to other things if you prefer to do that
Hello, what can I help you with?
How did the automatic high beams work?
What keywords should I search for in the owners manual
High beams
high beams, please continue with manual control
So you can see you can come to you a search of that owner's manual so you can find something specifically
Hey BMW
I'm cold
What temperature should I set
78
I'm setting the temperature on the driver's side to 78 degrees Fahrenheit
Now, I'm not sure about other vehicles
But at least here on your flagship level vehicles the 7 Series in the x7 they have these things called caring car
And what this does is it has these different modes which kind of like encompass a lot of different features
To help you with different types of moods so you can talk to the assistant and tell it something for instance
I'm tired
All right, I've activated the vanity program
So the vitality program
What it's going to do is do a whole bunch of different things just to help you feel more refreshed
So we opened up the moonroof to let some light in right now
it's alternating up and down the fan speed to give you like a
breezy type of feel the ambient lighting changes
The massage function was automatically turned on so I'm now getting massage and my seat ventilation was one
So there's a lot of different things also
there's
Some specific music that's playing right now. That's nice and relaxing. So our more upbeat to make you feel better
So there's two different modes for that
You also have some modes called experience modes
As you can see right there exactly what it's going to change
So I can warm the climate protect you from the Sun
Different things just to give you Mike a sense of well-being for instance
So these are really neat features and definitely have a new level of thought that goes into
Flagship love the cars now. We'll jump back into the main page and we'll pop down to
applications
So as you can see off to site here, you've got a lot of different types of information
And applications that you can go into however most importantly
Apple carplay is onboard for every vehicle of I Drive 7.0. It's the wireless apple carplay
That's free for one year. However, there is no Android auto at this time
Here we have BMW news
So you can basically just see some news as you'd expect
We also have weather
So straight fruit here from the car. We can check our percent chance of rain. We can also scroll over and see a map
Ork now is an interesting app
This is a feature that allows you to see available parking spots if you're in a city that supports that
ability
We also have a web browser and you can set certain climate control rules
For when you want the automatic seat heating to turn on and when you want the automatic seat
Ventilation to turn on now, you can use the BMW Store to add more applications
Now you do have like a notification shade so you can swipe down
So you can see here. We have 15 notifications
So we can see different types of things
It looks basically it's been recommending that we look at the owner's manual to understand things better. Oh
So I go over here and hit these displays this is where all three of our displays would be located so we can
Click on head up this way jump over here
This is where you can do all the adjustments for the head-up display so we can grab this make it brighter grab this
Raise it up a little higher
And also choose what types of information that we want displayed on it. We can do the same thing for the instrument panel
So right in our main display
And then we can also do that for this main display in the middle so in here we have some general settings
So as you can see this all has to do with different warnings
Tons and tons of different things that depends on what cart you have
But you also have some drive mode selections depending on what car you have
Exterior lighting driver's assistants. This is where you can change all
Customize exactly how you want your drivers assistance because some people like it to be a little more active and other people want it to
Not intervene as much
Well everybody thanks for joining us for this tech help episode
Hopefully you learned some things about the brand-new iDrive 7.0 system and see you next time