So then guys if you've bought a new Mercedes, the chances are it has MBUX.
Now I have covered tips & tricks on my channel before however it's
been a little while since I've done it.
So in this video today we're going to be covering 10 MBUX tips & tricks that I wish I knew sooner!
Now then guys starting at number one did you know
that you can move your icons around on your home screen?
So say for example that you use media more than others if you find that icon on the screen,
hold your finger on it and then you can actually move it left and right.
So you can either swipe it left and right like
this or just tap on the arrows and make it front and centre.
Now you can do that for all the icons as well so it's quite useful of course
if you don't use certain features you can move them all to the far right hand side.
Now at number two then guys if you are lucky enough to have KEYLESS-GO
so that's where you can unlock and lock your car using just your handle.
So for example I've got the key in my back pocket if I tap lock....little touch pad on
the handle there and unlock just by putting your hand behind the handle...that's pretty cool!
But what some people don't know is it actually has another hidden feature on it now most of the
time if for example you hold your unlock button on your key, that'll open up all your windows.
And the sunroof as well if you have it.
Now that does vary from model to model but this car can do it but look at this hidden
feature if you put your finger or thumb on the lock panel just a little touch pad on
the handle but hold it there...you will shut all of your windows and your sunroof as well!
Bet you didn't know that!
Now when it comes to the Hey Mercedes voice assistant found on cars with MBUX
so this is like your kind of almost like a Siri or a Hey Google or a Hey
Alexa in the car but for Mercedes so you quite simply say 'Hey Mercedes!'
Car: How may I help you?
And she'll appear on the screen like that and the back button will cancel it.
Now I have covered that before in a previous video with my Top 10 Commands which I'll link up above.
However what about some hidden commands that you might not know about?
And we'll just go through a couple of them before moving on to something else.
So did you know on one of the commands you can
actually get it to go to a specific menu so for example, Hey Mercedes!
Car: How can I help?
Go to Media
And it will change straight to that or maybe you want the sat nav...
Hey Mercedes!
Car: How can I help?
Go to Navi
So you can navigate between all the menu items just making it a little bit easier keeping your
hands on the wheel looking ahead and of course you don't need to look down or press any buttons.
Now the next one is asking the weather so you can ask it the weather for where you
are or even where you're visiting so say for example...Hey Mercedes!
Car: How may I help you?
What's the weather in London today?
Today it will be rainy in London with temperatures between 11 and 15 degrees.
Then it can even give you like a small brief weather report
just swiping across left and right like that and that's the only way of
accessing that actually you can't just press buttons to bring up the weather.
But you can ask it over the voice!
Now last couple of voice commands before we get
on to the next one did you know you can ask it to do your heated seats?
Hey Mercedes!
Car: How can I help?
Turn on my heated seat!
Car: I'm switching on the seat heating
Nice! I'll just uh turn that off now...
So that's enough of the Hey Mercedes Voice Assistant let's
move on to something else that I haven't covered on my YouTube channel before!
And this next one is a light mode and dark mode kind of almost equivalent so let me explain.
You know YouTube that you're watching this on right now you can actually toggle usually on the
top right hand corner in your settings area you can toggle between a light mode and a dark mode.
You can do a very similar thing on your Sat Nav so for example it is fairly dark outside
right now so if I go to the navigation, you'll see that all the layout there is kind of dark.
Now you can actually toggle that to always be on if you kind of struggle to see it so to do this...
Make sure you're on your home screen go all the way across to 'Settings',
then go to 'System' on the top right hand corner.
Then go to 'Styles & Display' and then scroll to the very bottom and then the very bottom
there you'll see 'Day/night design' now most of the time and the default settings are automatic
so this will be toggling between day and night automatically but just to show you the difference
if I make sure this is on night Design...this is what the sat nav looks like at night
and this is what the sat nav looks like in the day...
So very very good of course it will toggle between the two automatically but just in case you want to
toggle between a kind of light mode or dark mode equivalent that's how you can do that!
And while we're on the topic of themes you can
actually change the entire multimedia system theme.
So for example if you press the home button go all the way across to 'Settings' and then
'System' again into 'Styles and display' and at the top here you'll see a thing called 'Styles'.
If you go in here you can choose most commonly between Classic and Sport but
sometimes there's a Progressive one on there as well now this basically
changes these dials that look like this from Classic, Sport and then Progressive as well.
So a few different designs there to choose from so quite a nice
user touch so you can just obviously choose between your favourite one.
Now for this next one is a tip & trick that I haven't shared ever before on. my YouTube channel.
So if you're seeing this this is the first time I'm showing this!
And it is extremely useful in case someone else has borrowed your car
and changed all of your settings or maybe you've done it by accident.
So on the screen here of course you can customise all these different things
you can change the left dial, the centre dial & the right hand dial as well just
by swiping the touchpad left and right and controlling each element just like this.
Now what happens if you want to put it back to the default really quickly?
Well if you hold the back button on the steering wheel which is just located here
just hold it for a few seconds and everything will go back to the way it was before.
Now up next then guys is text messages for your phone now I do get asked all the time actually
particularly people who have iPhones
they do message me and ask why it's not working in their car.
And the reason is when you connect it via Bluetooth for the first time
it's actually off by default and it is hidden!
So if you grab your phone go to 'Settings' then go to 'Bluetooth' which is typically your third
one down and then in here find your car in this list so MBUX 31129 for this example,
tap on the I and then at the very top there it says 'Show
notifications' toggle that on and then when you go to text through it will look
just like this on the screen here and on some cars it can even read it out to you!
Now up next is a hidden feature on the touchpad so I have covered this
before where you can use the back button next track button and the
Home button so that's nice and easy but I haven't covered this part....
So by default if you swipe that touchpad in the middle it'll go through all the radio
stations or change your next track if you're playing something over Bluetooth or USB.
As you swipe it will go through, some cars you do have to click it
in though and then swipe a bit like this but....
There's a hidden thing in the radio settings section on MBUX
so if you go to Radio then go to the very bottom right hand corner where
it's got the picture of the cogs go to 'Settings' and then go to 'General'.
At the bottom here there's a thing called 'Change station in background' so if you go on to this,
this controls what that next track button does when you are not on the
radio screen so say you're on Navi or something like that.
So the difference between these two, station lists basically goes
through everything A/Z so you can just swipe go through all the stations A/Z.
But a bit more personable if you go onto presets what this will do then when you're
on the sat nav screen and you swipe left and right it's going to go through your presets so
that's one way of going through your presets and a little hidden tip and trick on the touchpad!
Now up next then guys is a tip & trick for your cruise control or speed limiter.
And on cars with MBUX you'll find it's these three buttons on the steering wheel just here.
Very quickly oversimplifying up is cruise control, down is limiter, the set button turns it on,
then you've got a resume button and the cancel button so that's nice and easy!
But look really closely at those buttons and pay close attention to Res where it says resume
there's actually a forward slash and then another little funny symbol and what that
is is actually Traffic Sign Assist or if you don't have that it will be Speed Limit Assist.
So what that does is basically copy what the car thinks the speed limit is for the
road to your cruise control or limiter meaning say you're driving down the road
and it's 50mph and then you go past those gantries on the motorway that then says 70.
Depending on what equipment you have on the car the car will either receive that
from the sat nav data and see that it's now 70 or if it has Traffic Sign Assist
it will scan the actual speed sign as you go past and show it to you on the screen.
And all you do is just nudge that up twice and that will copy the kind of
speed limit from the car to your cruise control or speed limiter.
And for the very last one today then guys is saving a position on the map now yes of course
you can type in a postcode on 'Where to?' just down there on the bottom so that's nice and easy.
But you can actually save custom locations and this is as simple as this say for example
I wanted to save a kind of specific position on the map say it was this entrance just here.
Now the postcode for that area would be probably quite massive
but all you do is just hold your finger on there and you can save
that exact location there see the little little flag with the plus?
You can save that exact location to a favourite just tap on the relevant
one and then you can save it on the star just like that!
So say you've got a favourite walk somewhere maybe in the forest somewhere or something that's off
the map or even if you've had a new house built and isn't on the postcode system yet in the UK
then you can do that and save custom locations just by holding your finger on the screen!
And there we go then guys that concludes this week's video on the tips and tricks
on MBUX now if you want to check out more tips and tricks check out this playlist
right here as this one has every single tip & trick that I've ever made on a Mercedes-Benz.
Huge shout out to these guys Sandown Mercedes-Benz as they help provide
access to all these awesome cars you see in the videos so it'd be very tricky to it without them!
Guys thank you so much see you next week!