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Originally Posted by cnicholson
No iPhone support for headline features is a joke.
On my ED trip, Siri seemed to work using in-car hands free bluetooth, but no useful info on car display.
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Lack of iPhone support for email/SMS has been because iOS thus far hasn't supported the required Bluetooth profile to enable that function; it's not BMW's fault. But iOS 6, which comes out a week from today, is said to add it, so you won't have to wait long. Incidentally, iDrive also supports browsing your music library even while you're connected via Bluetooth Audio rather than USB, but again iOS doesn't, so you can't. I don't think that one is changing in iOS 6. Don't be so quick to dump on BMW for things that aren't their fault.
Better Siri support is coming. Right now it's kind of a hack where Siri is able to hear your voice through the car by tricking iDrive into thinking a phone call to no one just randomly started, but you have to invoke Siri on the iPhone itself, not from the steering wheel. THAT will require work from BMW to fix.