Widescreen CarPlay

[punitnaker]

Does anyone have a car with a widescreen display? I have a BMW with a widescreen but the idrive currently only shows CarPlay on a split screen with the normal ratio and other 1/3 of the screen can be customized with other things.

I’m really hoping this new version uses the full width of the screen and won’t need a software update from BMW.

Anyone able to confirm/check?

 

[bastula]

Does anyone have a car with a widescreen display? I have a BMW with a widescreen but the idrive currently only shows CarPlay on a split screen with the normal ratio and other 1/3 of the screen can be customized with other things.

I’m really hoping this new version uses the full width of the screen and won’t need a software update from BMW.

Anyone able to confirm/check?

I'm pretty sure this is a limitation of iDrive 6 (which is what I also have). You can search for people that have posted ways to correct it, but you lose the split screen during CarPlay permanently.

 

[Carlson-online]

I'm pretty sure this is a limitation of iDrive 6 (which is what I also have). You can search for people that have posted ways to correct it, but you lose the split screen during CarPlay permanently.

All F series cars have this.

Luckily though you can modify it to be full screen

Go to bimmertech and check out there full screen CarPlay option.

Allows the whole screen to be used. I haven’t installed ios13 yet on mine so I can’t comment if we get the new look, but I have the full screen mod on line for ios12 and it’s tonnes better

 

[gildorn]

I have an Alfa Romeo Giulia with a widescreen display. The full width is used by CarPlay, even with iOS 12 (and I believe it did with iOS 11 too?)

 

[Rivanov]

It has nothing to do with CarPlay itself. It's an iDrive thing.

 

[Zorn]

All F series cars have this.

Luckily though you can modify it to be full screen

Go to bimmertech and check out there full screen CarPlay option.

Allows the whole screen to be used. I haven’t installed ios13 yet on mine so I can’t comment if we get the new look, but I have the full screen mod on line for ios12 and it’s tonnes better

Can you code the full screen mod with Bimmercode? I have a 2018 F36, no idea what the integration level is though, or how to find that.