I Retrofit MMI Carplay to My 2014 F20 BMW 1 Series and Lived to Tell!

[@lucyhoodless2401]

Glad I only saw the end result of this, might have had a heart attack otherwise 🙈 great job though!

[@amfareed30]

Nice video..but when you get in the car and turn it on, does the screen shows apple carplay right out or you need to press something?

[@builditup-rj]

@@amfareed30 no need to press anything mine loads up with the CarPlay screen each and every time and you can cycle to the normal cars menu anytime you want and it will still play the audio till you choose to change the source. I hope that helps

[@rik-qs8pd]

Omg I think this is my favourite one so far awesome guide 👍🏻 it does kinda make me want to buy myself a bmw now so I can do this myself 😂😂

[@Jan-VH]

I wonder if the aux connection is really needed. I don't mind if I can't use the "hey google" option. So when you leave it like it is and don't connect the aux. Will it still work? As long as I can still make calls over bluetooth and use the speech function from the idrive. Or do you need to connect the aux for having spotify songs or waze navigation sounds?

[@builditup-rj]

I’m no expert by any means but I believe that you need the aux cable in for the audio fromSpotify etc! in my case I left the original mic connected and have both the car and the CarPlay connected by blutooth so when I want to make a call it automatically uses the cars blutooth and mutes the CarPlay audio and then switches back as soon as I hang up. I hope that makes sense?

[@Sg435]

can confirm, the aux cable is required to get any audio from the unit