[CigarPundit]

Interesting topic. I have it on my 2018 F80 and frankly, I’ve just been using it pretty much since I picked up the car in the States. I haven’t really tried running my phone from iDrive. Now I’m going to give iDrive a go and see which one I like better. That said, I have liked the familiarity of the interface for playing music and responding to texts via voice. In my experience, it doesn’t take over and it operates quite well simultaneously with iDrive. For example, using the iDrive nav while playing music and responding to texts via car play has worked very well. Also responding to texts while listening to sat radio has worked well. The radio resumes playing automatically once you are done responding. Getting in and out is easy too—just push the menu button and you are back to iDrive. I do think the iDrive nav is better, especially since I have the live traffic info. I’m sure it isn’t as good as waze for making your way through traffic, but I’m not a waze user for other reasons.