12-07-2018, 06:56 AM | #1 |
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Using a mobile device as a wifi hotspot
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I bought a 2017 G30 530i a couple of months ago. It's great but one small thing bugs me. I have lots of data on my work cell phone and, in my other vehicle, use it as a hotspot for my iPhone to play Spotify etc. However, in the BMW, as soon as I turn on wifi on my iPhone it connects to iDrive and/or Apple Car Play instead of the hotspot from my work cell phone. When I try to select the hotspot via my iPhone it initially works but automatically switches back to the iDrive/Apple Car Play within a couple of minutes. Any suggestions? Last edited by christopheaus; 12-07-2018 at 06:57 AM.. Reason: correcting reference to BMW |
12-07-2018, 07:25 AM | #2 |
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I assume you specified enhance Bluetooth which includes a wifi hotspot but my understanding is that you have to enable it with a subscription. So is this what you have? Or did you not specific that and the car is still advertising a WiFi hotspot none the less? (I will have to try this out on my car)
Either way is there a way of disabling the WiFi hotspot within the idrive? That's assuming you don't want to use it at all? |
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12-07-2018, 07:26 AM | #3 |
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Go into your phones wifi settings and tell it to forget the cars wifi and it won't auto connect anymore
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12-07-2018, 08:15 AM | #4 |
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I can't work out if the car is using my cellular data when connected to WiFi i.e. to download tracks in Spotify |
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12-07-2018, 08:28 AM | #6 |
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It's to do with Apple CarPlay connecting to the phone via WiFi. As you might know G30 was the first vehicle with CarPlay via WiFi. Downside of that is that your phone will prioritise the CarPlay connection unless you start using iDrive phone connection. When you do that you can start to use your hotspot for other activities.
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I will try again today though - thanks for your suggestion |
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My work phone has access to unlimited mobile (cellular) data which is why I want to use it as a hotspot rather than chewing through my personal mobile's data plan. 1 phone would be a lot simpler! But the audio quality on my iPhone seems to be a lot better than my work phone. |
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