Item 1 is just a small reorganization of some of the menu items on the first tab.

 

• Item 1: just moving things around, no functional improvement
• Item 2: not sure what needs based fuel recommendations is
• Item 3: I saw you can easily add preferred charging stops to your route and recalculates based on that. MyBMW app is getting closer and closer to ABRP feature parity. At this point I still can't select a different location (than where my phone is or where my car is parked) so route planning is still not there yet.
• Item 4: I also saw you can sent route from Google Maps directly, using the share button in google maps.

 

• Item 2: not sure what needs based fuel recommendations is

Maybe it just doesn't show gas stations if the car is and EV and no chargers if the car is an ICE?

 

Item 4 is pretty neat. I can send a destination to either car or app by sharing it from either Apple or Google Maps.

 

Can anybody explain item 2?

 

You can now set the Remaining Range as a complication for Apple Watch. I've been waiting for that. Unfortunately, it's showing in KM's, and I don't see the option to configure it for miles (or to just show SOC even more preferable).

 

For the modular watch face, there is a complication showing SOC and GOM km’s. Takes up too much space to be useful, though.

 

First time ever I got an actual notification when I started preconditioning (instead of just a message in the app itself). Not on the list, but perhaps one of the more useful items.

 

Will the app eventually get an ability to close/open windows like the Tesla app?

 

No one knows. I doubt it, but no one knows.

 

Why did they remove widgets on iOS in 4.5? The ones I had on my widgets page showed up black and there is no widget selection anymore for myBMW, no Lock Screen widgets either.

 

I'm on holiday abroad and was slowly solar charging the car when sunny (both sunn and car are at home). After a week the car didnt respond anymore to commands (also not lock).today I decided to give it a try after the app update, and hooray it works again!

 

Can confirm that we Android users have now received this update.

 

I must be missing something but I can't see where the funcionality to self-select chargin stops has been added. It seems to work just like it did before. Can set preferences for BMW-charging locations or for selected operators but cant see a way to actually select or deselct charging stops it has added.

(Running v4.5.0 iOS on IPhone15)

 

It's not that obvious! Here's how I do it:

1. Enter a destination
2. Select "View Route"
3. Select "Add stops"
4. Move the "ADD STOP" above your destination in the list (and also the preselected charge stop if it's included one)
5. Click on "ADD STOP" after you've moved it
6. Search for charge location you want e.g. IONITY and select the one you want from the list
7. You should then have your start, charge stop and destination in the list and you can save it and send to the car (if there was a preselected charge stop, it should have removed it).

 

Keep in mind, whatever setting you have for 'minimum SoC at charger arrival' or whatever it's called can still sneak in a charger you don't want or need. Happened to me this weekend. Had 100 miles of charge and a charger I wanted to use 35 miles away. Couldn't get it to delete a 3 minute charge stop on the way.

 

Brilliant, many thanks. A bit clunky but it works.

 

100%. Not exactly intuitive is it!

 

Trying to play with it a bit more and I keep getting the “Something Went Wrong” error message when I try to add a charging stop.

Only seems to work for the very first location I searched for and nowhere else.

So at the moment seems buggy to the point of being useless. Anyone else managing to use it consistently?

 

Something went wrong is usually "Hey, I lost internet connection for a second", but any activation of parking cameras or backup camera will also terminate any navigation search that isn't completely finished routing and activated.

 

Pretty sure this is an app problem as I can always add intermediate locations which aren’t charging points.

For charging points it only seems to work adding in those which it has auto-selected on previous searches. If I try to add in a charging point it had not previously suggested on another search, I get the ‘Something went wrong’ error.

All this is just in the MyBMW app. Haven’t sent any data to the car or tried anything in the in-car nav (hoping that works better!)

 

I can add charging stops but the app must identify it as a charger. For example, I just created a route for tomorrow from Budapest, Hungary to Bad Gottleuba, Germany which is about 650km and the app immediately added a charging stop, which is enough. But I want to stop at least three times for a walk and a coffee, so I added all the Ionity chargers on the route just in case, even though I only plan to stop at three of them. But there are chargers which are not found by the app as chargers, so they are only normal stops. The problem is that if I don't stop then the car is too dumb to realise that I don't want to stop, and it tries to guide me back and if I am not awake it can cost me many extra miles of driving. There should be an option popping up asking if I want to skip the stop or missed the exit and want to go back.

 

Is there a trick to get the iOS app (4.5.2) to automatically add charging stops when it calculates a route to a destination clearly out of range? I don't think it's my charging filters as the "Nearby chargers" button finds them. If I tap View Route to a place that's 797km away (495 miles) it doesn't include any stops at all. In the Itinerary section I've tapped the little black triangle and made sure it has my i4 and not my current location, to make sure it was routing for the i4.

The salesman gave me a courtesy call just now to ask how my new car was going and I mentioned this to him. Unless he misunderstood my question he said that the My BMW app can't calculate charging stops on a route. This seems to contradict what I've read here.

 

I just tried a route on the MyBMW app (version 4.5.2 on Android) that is 940 km (584 miles) away, and it generated an itinerary with 3 charging stops.

At the bottom of my screen, I have the following options set:

I set 4 'preferred operators'. Do you also have something similar? It is strange why the app would not add any planned charging stops.

 

This is what I see when I view the route. I think my charging preferences are set correctly as I can see chargers when I search for them.

There is nothing else in the Planning Options section other than the Departure Time section you can see in the first screenshot.

 

There is nothing else in the Planning Options section other than the Departure Time section you can see in the first screenshot.

That is odd. I see the following options, in addition to the departure time:

I did a bit of searching and found the following post on another forum:

I am not sure if anything has changed the last few months, but it seems like people in Australia may not have this feature .

 

For future reference, the message in the earlier post from mlchem08 is at https://www.ixforums.com/posts/29456/

 

Anyone else finding that tariffs for home location results in a ‘we are currently unable to retrieve your data, please try later’ error? App Version 4.5.4 in use and my energy tariff changed today but I can’t update it for some odd reason. Similar at some work locations but not others - our charge points are spread throughout the car parks).

I’ve tried logging out and in again, but the error has persisted for several days.

Privacy settings in the car and app are set correctly (or were) and haven’t been changed.

 

I don't understand why the app and the car use such different standards for planning the route. I put a route recently into the app and it said that I would make it with 8% left at destination. I then got in to the car (same settings for SOC on arrival) and the car said I needed an 8 minute charging stop at a 150kw charger in order to arrive with 5%. I would arrive at the charging stop with 24% so at that low SOC 8 minutes was probably at least 10% added. That's a pretty significant discrepancy.

 

I've noticed the same. The app is always more optimistic than the car. FWIW for me the car is almost always overly cautious on predicted SoC on arrival. On a journey of any length, I can usually add at least 5% to the predicted SoC the car gives when I set off (eg recent 157 mile trip, set off with 75% SoC and car predicted 8% SoC on arrival. Actual SoC on arrival was 14%)

I noticed the app predictions suddenly got a lot more optimistic after I'd made a couple of long journeys with unusually high efficiency (low average speed due to traffic / roadworks), so I think the app places more weight on recent actual data. Maybe the car isn't looking at that data at all and just uses fixed consumption for different types of roads?