[hans.olbrecht]

Just an update for anyone who lands here (like me): if you have BMW ConnectedDrive then the car will automatically download map updates via the SIM car that's installed in the car. There are no extra data transfer costs: it's all included in the ConnectedDrive services.

Thanks for your reply.
The automatically update works only for 'regional' aspects. The main map looks to be update manually by USB-stick.
In my case, and I see in other post that also other people struggled with this problem is not supported USB-stick whatever the raison.
Have good luck with your car.

 

[hans.olbrecht]

Complete disaster.
The update took more than an hour and after that the navigation did not start anymore.
Only after 2 days I had navigation again but the speed indications were no longer correct.
System rebooted twice.
Now the navigation no longer works.
Lucky that you can see waze with android car or carplay

 

[hans.olbrecht]

Thanks for the tips.
I downloaded yesterday, then saw hat you need a USB-stick with more then 32GB.
Could not copy the whole raw data on the disk, so I extract everything to a 64GB.
It was too late to try on the car.
Will see tomorrow.

 

[hans.olbrecht]

Well, registering my ID, I saw that the update of the map should be go over air.
Looking in the car, the map was from Q1 2021 (old).
Going on the website (Loading...) and registering.
Linked my car with ID-number.
I see the message that my map is outdated.
Downloaded it from the site. It is about 30 GB.
Now I will look for a USB-C stick to put it on.
Will try to update this evening.
Strange that it was not going aver air...