QUICK REFERENCE -> Set-up and use for your BMW i3 2013-2022

Set-up and use  
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Set-up and use  
Adjusting the steering wheel  
Manual steering wheel setting  
Seats, mirrors and steering  
wheel  
Manually adjustable seats  
1. Fold the lever down.  
2. Move the steering wheel to the preferred  
height and angle to suit your seat position.  
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Forward/backward  
Height  
3. Fold the lever back up.  
Backrest tilt  
Infotainment  
Adjusting the exterior mirrors  
Radio  
Control elements  
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Adjusting  
Selecting a mirror, Automatic Curb Monitor,  
automatic cornering adjustment  
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Folding in and out  
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Changing the entertainment source  
Sound output on/off, volume  
Changing the waveband  
Programmable memory buttons  
Changing the station/track  
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3. "Mobile devices"  
Navigation destination input  
4. "Connect new device"  
Entering a destination via address  
Via iDrive:  
5. Select the functions for which the mobile  
phone is to be used.  
The vehicle's Bluetooth name is displayed on  
the Control Display.  
State/province  
1. "Navigation"  
6. To perform additional steps on the mobile  
phone, refer to the mobile phone owner's  
manual: e.g., search for or connect the Blue‐  
tooth device or a new device.  
2.  
"Enter address"  
3. "State/Province?"  
4. Select the country from the list.  
The Bluetooth name of the vehicle appears  
on the mobile phone display. Select the Blue‐  
tooth name of the vehicle.  
Entering the address  
The address can be entered in any order.  
Example: entering the address via the town/city  
7. Depending on the mobile device, a control  
number is displayed or the control number  
must be entered.  
1. "City/Postal code?"  
2. Enter the town/city.  
Compare the control number displayed  
on the Control Display with the control  
number on the display of the device.  
The list is narrowed down further with each  
entry.  
Confirm the control number on the device  
and on the Control Display.  
3.  
Select the icon.  
4. Select a town/city from the list.  
Enter and confirm the same control num‐  
ber on the device and via iDrive.  
5. If necessary, enter the street.  
6. Select the street as you would the town/city.  
7. If necessary, enter a house number.  
The device is connected and displayed in the  
device list.  
8.  
Select the icon.  
Using the telephone  
Accepting a call  
9. Select a house number or range of house  
numbers from the list.  
Starting destination guidance  
"Start guidance"  
Incoming calls can be accepted via iDrive or the  
button on the steering wheel.  
Destination guidance is started to the town/city  
center if no street is entered.  
Via iDrive  
"Accept"  
Connecting a mobile phone  
Via the button on the steering wheel  
Press the button.  
After the mobile phone is connected once to the  
vehicle, the mobile phone can be operated using  
iDrive, the steering wheel buttons and spoken in‐  
structions.  
Via the instrument cluster  
Use the thumbwheel on the steering wheel to  
select: "Accept"  
1. "My Vehicle"  
2. "iDrive settings"  
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Dialing a number  
1. "Communication"  
2. "Dial number"  
3. Enter the numbers.  
4.  
Select the icon. The connection is estab‐  
lished via the mobile phone to which this  
function has been assigned.  
Establish the connection via the additional tele‐  
phone:  
1.  
Press the button.  
2. "Call via"  
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