All is clear, thank you.
I have dug out an old iPhone 5 with no SIM card. I fired it up, connected it to my home Wi-fi and downloaded the BMW Connected app, along with the map set for the UK. I had to chose an earlier version of the app as the iPhone’s operating system wasn’t up-to-date enough, though I don’t think that’ll matter too much.
As I don’t know one thing about all this new malarkey (though I do like what I have seen so far of the app and a TFT screen *) am I right in thinking that, without a SIM card, I can use this phone when out in Europe just as a simple positional device, sufficient to display the map and my position on the larger TFT screen?
Quite what the advantage of doing this over just using my perfectly good iPhone 12 (with a SIM card) is I am not sure, much beyond using the iPhone 5 as a possible back up. Above anything else, it’s the SIM card bit I am interested in. Do I need it, yes or no?
* and now I understand the Connected app better (thanks to help from this thread) and can tap on the screen to set shaping points, to create bespoke routes.
Richard, how big is the file size of the app, and the maps ?
If it’s a large file, it may be worth keeping on the spare phone so you aren’t filling up you’re actual phone.
Once you switch off the bike, you have to get your phone our to reconnect to the wi fi, but I understand BMW are working on this.
Nice one Richard! I'd be keen to hear how you get on, I've had very mixed experience with the recalculation of routes. Everytime I do the beta testing one thing I have to do is skip a waypoint and occasionally I've missed a turn for some reason and I find it almost never takes me on anything that resembles the original route, but to be fair all my routes are local and sub-50miles.