06-18-2021, 08:23 AM | #1 |
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Email readout in iDrive 7??
Hi, we've just brought our new X3 30d M Sport home, we previously had a 2016 F15 X5 30d M Sport with NBT. I also have a 2014 640i Gran Coupe with the same NBT system. In our older cars, we could have the car read out emails while driving, I use this feature a lot but can't seem to find any similar feature in our new X3 which is massively disappointing. Am I missing something?? It seems there was an Office 365 service for emails at some stage but this seems to be no longer available. I can get the system to read out text messages via the phone function, but does not provide the option for reading emails as it did/does in our older BMW's. Any help would be appreciated!!
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06-18-2021, 02:34 PM | #2 |
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Yea, in the US they took away the office feature, so I am assuming you’re in the same boat there. It’s ridiculous in todays remote workforce that you can’t at least have emails and calendar events read to you.
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06-18-2021, 08:06 PM | #3 |
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You could definitely set up your phone to read your emails to you (like with Siri or Google Assistant). It probably has better text-to-speech than the car anyway.
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06-19-2021, 06:18 AM | #5 |
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You can, but nowhere near as convenient as the older functionality that was there. You could select which emails you wanted read out. Android Auto and Carplay don't allow emails to be read out either. For me, I do a lot of long distance driving and it is so helpful to be able to keep on top of work emails. Luckily this will be my wife's car, so will be hanging onto my F06 till BMW or someone else (even Toyota Corolla's read out your emails) offers some reasonable functionality.
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