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Hi y’all,

With this thread I want to share my experience with CarPlay activation in my mother’s new X1 F48.
The car is equipped with ID6 entrynav2 (small screen).

As my mother is all day long on the road, CarPlay would’ve been a nice option. But BMW told her it’s not possible to retrofit CarPlay on her specific car.

I reached out to kubax86 as I had some previous experiences with him when it comes to activation of CarPlay on BMW.
He asked me to check if the headunit had a WLAN Wifi connector at the back of the unit. So I took off the trim and took out the headunit to check out the connectors at the back. While doing this, I noticed the purple connector at the back. I bought a wifi antenna en connected it.

After this, I connected an ENET cable to the car and kubax86 successfully remotely activated Apple Carplay in the F48 in just a couple of minutes.

The result is a fully working Apple Carplay on the small entrynav screen.

Conclusion, if your car is equipped with this unit. Take it out and check if there’s a WLAN connectivity connector and reach out to him. He’ll be happy to help.

Thanks again for this awesome and easy experience to kubax86

Cheers