‘We’ve been working on it since 2004,’ said Distler. We spoke to Armin Distler and Alina Sauer, responsible for the UX and the design, who told us more about iDrive 7.0. It can’t yet include the exact rims you’re riding on, but they’re working on making your avatar 100% realistic. On start-up, iDrive 7.0 displays a picture of your BMW in the exact spec, down to the colour and trim – a bit like a Tesla Model S. To put that another way, you can store 40 of your favourite apps (nav, trip computer, media, parking, weather, news, whatever) just a few swipes or scrolls away. You can still customise the homepage live tiles, with a maximum of four ‘widgets’ on screen, and you can swipe through a maximum of 10 pages. The left arrow on the homescreen can be tipped to enter a pop-out primary menu (navigation, media, settings) while a top toolbar runs the most popular commands (recent destinations, calls etc). There are two main navigational controls on screen now. Every function can be accessed via touchscreen or rotary controller. It’s been given a bit of a makeover and looks more jewel-like on the next X5, but its functionality is little changed. The round knob still takes pride of place in the centre console. Is there still a rotary controller? Or is it all voice-activated?įret not. In a nutshell, the update is designed to streamline the information architecture of iDrive 6.0 (what you’ll find on today’s 5-series), present less information to the user but prioritise what they really want to see – and look better, more modern, more natural and less distracting, its makers told CAR. And here is the latest iteration, in a very Apple-esque update that makes you realise it’s as much software developer as car maker these days. Fast-forward to 2018 and BMW refined the system to be one of the best multi-controllers yet.
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