Navigation from Calendar Appointment?

I didn't realize I had it set this way. It caught me by surprise when it first happened, but it's very helpful. That and the "Learning Navigation" have been useful.

No Calendar option within my iPhone either

Steve007 said:

No Calendar option within my iPhone either

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Same here. Could this be a US market restriction?

Interesting. It's available and enabled on my iPhone 14 Pro Max. I haven't seen route suggestions yet, but I also haven't been looking for them.

It could depend on your calendar solution. In my case, my calendar is my corporate calendar, and that is not accessible from other apps. (It was the same with my Tesla... it could read my personal calendar, which I didn't use, but not my corporate calendar). I don't see the calendar option at all.

linerjoe said:

In my case, my calendar is my corporate calendar, and that is not accessible from other apps

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My trick in this case is to just invite my personal email account to the trips I need to access

michel said:

My trick in this case is to just invite my personal email account to the trips I need to access

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That could certainly be an option.

You need to sync the calendar with the BMW app. I don't recall where it was in the app, but it asks if you want to sync them.

Accident said:

This is the least intuitive option to enable on the app. You have to click the “destination” icon in the navigation section pf the app and then select “upcoming”. The phone will ask you to grant the calendar permissions.
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Wow. Just wow. That worked. And now the Calendar access appears under the My BMW app settings.
I spent half an hour on the phone this afternoon with a BMW genius (bmw usa) who assured me that there was no such an option (she even reached out to the BMW connected team to confirm)…
This is such an important feature, and they don’t even know about it.
Thanks Accident!

Where can I see my calendar in the car? I’ve been looking for it but cannot seem to find it, want to see it and press appointments to navigate to them as well as get automatic navigation suggestions when just getting in the car.

WhereItsAt said:

You need to sync the calendar with the BMW app. I don't recall where it was in the app, but it asks if you want to sync them.

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You are correct.
Accessed my BMW app, into settings, then maps and mobility and it ask you if you want to sync calendar.
Thank you

Accident said:

This is the least intuitive option to enable on the app. You have to click the “destination” icon in the navigation section pf the app and then select “upcoming”. The phone will ask you to grant the calendar permissions.

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Wow, that's not intuitive at all! As before, I can only see my personal calendar (which I don't use), but the option is now there. Cool.

BMWdav said:

Where can I see my calendar in the car? I’ve been looking for it but cannot seem to find it, want to see it and press appointments to navigate to them as well as get automatic navigation suggestions when just getting in the car.

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You can do this under CarPlay, but I don't think iDrive shows the calendar.

ssh said:

You can do this under CarPlay, but I don't think iDrive shows the calendar.

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iDrive will not show my calendar but it does show the next event calendar in my navigation. It is interesting that some calendar events that have no location in my calendar show random places in the navigation screen.

pjbm4 said:

iDrive will not show my calendar but it does show the next calendar in my navigation. It is interesting that some calendar events that have no location in my calendar show random places in the navigation screen.

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I noticed that today as well. I have a Google Meets meeting in my Calendar, and the location is the URL. Somehow BMW Nav interpreted the address as Utah! That's a 1,000 mile drive for a virtual meeting!! Thanks but no thanks BMW!

ssh said:

You can do this under CarPlay, but I don't think iDrive shows the calendar.

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Okay thanks. A bit disappointing since I’ve been trying to consolidate my use to one navigation for consistency (built-in or CarPlay) but it seems both of them lack different things so I have to keep switching between them…