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Now did you know there is a hidden feature on your Mercedes called In-Car Office?
And no it doesn't actually transform your car into an actual office, but what it does do is
synchronise your phone and the car and can even save you time when you're on the road!
So this Mercedes me service basically synchronises your phone's calendar with your actual car.
Which basically means if you're organised enough...
You don't ever need to type a postcode in ever again!
Now just to show you a quick demo first and then I'll show you how to set it up on your Mercedes.
So let's start off with the Homescreen so this is what it's like when you turn
it on so if I use the touchpad and go all the way across to 'Apps'.
Go in here and then you'll see a thing called 'In-Car Office.'
In here when you open this it will open up a separate app and it will
directly show you the contents of your calendar.
Now this is only compatible with certain calendars so I'll show
you that in a minute when we kind of set it up.
But basically here you can see 'Filming In-Car Office at Mercedes'.
Rightly so! That's what I'm doing at the moment.
And you can see it's even got the location info underneath as well so you can actually
go in here you can have the system read it to you navigate to it or even hit delete.
Now if I press back let's have a look at the next appointment
and to do that you just literally swipe across.
And of course with a lot of filming comes a lot of editing so that's what
I'll be doing straight after this, making this video and uploading it onto YouTube!
So that's my day today so let's have a look at the next day now I've just
put a few things as an example just so you can see it in action.
So if I swipe across again you can see oh let's have a look at tomorrow for example so click.
That in that will load all the content again directly from your calendar.
So catch up with a friend you can see it's 11:00 & 13:00 it's even
got the address there because I put that in on the calendar.
Swipe across to the next one I've got an order to pick up and then
of course after that a bit of a gym session.
So if I click on this one I can have the system read it to me:
Car: 11AM catch up with Jamie
Or I could navigate to it and this is the thing that I absolutely love
about In-Car Office. It doesn't have to be dedicated for like work or office things.
As I said if you use your calendar and of course use the location function on it, anything you
put on there like a postcode or anything like that will immediately appear on here.
So let's just come completely out of this and say we're on the home screen
so from here I want to navigate to my next appointment all you do is just go to 'Apps',
'In-Car Office', then it'll show you of course your appointments for the day.
And you actually click on your appointment and then from here
just go to 'Navigate'...One click and away you go.
Car: Your route is being calculated
So it's not really officey things say you did work and you visited
lots of clients throughout the day or something or maybe you just literally
use a calendar like I do like religiously all your appointments throughout the day.
As long as you put the location info it just says so much time in the car!
So I'll just cancel that Sat Nav now which reminds me I won't run through
the sat nav in this video here I have dedicated videos on that so
you do click on the Pop-out Banner if you want to see how the sat nav works.
But for now back to In-Car Office.
Now what you can do as well if you wanted to you can go to the
search function down here and search for your appointments.
So quite useful if you have quite a few appointments in the day you can
basically search for the one you're after from there the next one across I actually
prefer because this kind of mimics what it looks like on my actual phone.
So when you go in here it can show you your
day just like that in kind of box format, all in time order as well.
And again you can click on it and it'll show you all the relevant information just like before.
The one after this is well quite simply a readout of your entire day so say you
are literally tight for time and you jump in the car just hit that
button there and it will literally read out all of your appointments in order.
Now for privacy of course I'm sure of course you probably use your own car quite a lot but if you
have to give your car to someone else you probably don't want them snooping in your calendar.
This is where you can go into 'Settings' so if you go in here you can deactivate In-Car
Office and it is only a temporarily deactivate but basically when you
turn this off on here you have to then turn it back on again from your Mercedes me app.
So say I don't know if you give your car to be cleaned or you lend it to
someone it's quite useful just because obviously a
calendar can actually have some confidential information on there.
Of course depends what you put on it!
Now it's not all about calendar appointments there
is a thing called 'Tasks & Calls' so if we go on to that one at the top.
This is like your to-do list so if I recall on Google Calendar
it's kind of on the top right hand corner on the desktop version so
if you add anything in there this is going to show up on here then.
So you can see plan next week's video so yes I do try and do weekly videos on
YouTube so that's something I need to work on after doing this one!
And once you click this open you can actually mark
it as done just there or even delete it in case it's not relevant anymore.
And then of course the next one after this yes reply to YouTube comments say yes guys
if you didn't know I do try and reply to everyone's comments so if you have
a question or a comment or even a suggestion for a future video pop
in the comment section down below and you never know I might just consider yours!
And then the final menu item at the top there is email so if I go in here this
will actually show you all the emails now sadly it won't actually come up on
here for me just because I don't use email on this I use a different email provider.
But if you did of course all emails will be there as well and of course
when it looks at little speaker icon there you can have the system read
them out to you just in case you get quite a few emails each day.
So with all of that out of the way that is In-Car Office, now let's show you how to set it up!
Now to link In-Car Office guys it's super super easy so all you need is
your smartphone so grab that and make sure you've got the Mercedes me app.
Now if you don't have this head over to the App Store or the Google Play Store
search Mercedes me and then download that app.
Now your Mercedes me id of course will be your email address or your mobile
phone number it just kind of depends whatever you use to link your car with.
So from your Mercedes me home screen tap on the Menu button then go down and select your car.
And then in here you'll see a thing that says 'Manage Services' click on that one and then
go to 'Comfort' and in here you'll see all the list of Mercedes me Services relevant
for your car in that kind of section but the thing we're after is In-Car Office.
If you tap on the arrow there of course make sure it's actually
switched on with the toggle then you can see 'Linked Accounts' now if you
go in here you'll see that Gmail is currently linked at the moment.
Now you can link one of those three so you can do Office 365 if you have @live or an Outlook email
and you can also do business account as well which is like an exchange email for work related places.
Now sometimes if you're using especially a business account or Office 365 you may find
you can link it but then it doesn't actually appear in the car and the reason can be is
especially if you work for like an organisation or something like that the IT policy as in the
IT department they might have some privacy and security things in place for like GDPR reasons.
So you might need to ask them if you can actually do this because of course it can share some
information that your company might not want you to have in the car so you might have to ask IT
if you get stuck on that point.
But yeah basically if I go to Gmail you can see here you can remove the account or
add the account so it's really really easy but yeah that is how you link those three.
Now what about if you don't have In-Car Office in the first place if I go all the way to the
start tap on your menu button go to 'Mercedes me apps' and then in here go to the store.
This is where you can actually purchase it just in case you want to add it to your Mercedes.
And if I recall I think you can buy either 12 months or three years but of course as
always with Mercedes me Services just make sure that when you do purchase it
you intend to keep it in the car because of course if you do sell your Mercedes.
That Mercedes me service goes with the car it's not transferable so factor that in before you buy.
So then guys that is In-Car Office in your Mercedes-Benz explained!
Now I've got something to share with you all have you got parking sensors on your Mercedes-Benz?
Then you might be missing out on a specific feature to see what that is check this one
out here it's definitely a tip and trick I recommend everyone enable on their car!
Guys thank you so much for watching huge shout out to these guys Sandown
Mercedes-Benz as they help provide access to all these awesome cars you see in the videos!
But thank you guys until next week see you then!