![]() These settings are in the code but not readily accessible by the user at the current time.Īnother new feature is the Round-Trip App. The one thing that Garmin/BMW have not done is to enhance the Auto-Skip setting with user selectable preferences of Time/Distance. You can still use the manual Skip feature if you so desire. This allows the user to enable Waypoints in a Route to be automatically skipped when you deliberately bypass them. One of the other software improvements was the addition of the Automatically Skip Waypoint feature. In addition, through the latest software update, BMW has finally enabled all 2013+ BMW’s with radios (GT, GTL, GTLE, RT) to access the NAV6 Media Player when it is connected to a smartphone.Ĭlicking on the icon will show the music source options.Ĭlicking on BROWSE will show you the music selectionĭon't forget to look in PLAYLISTS - you'll find Most of the time the Media Player will even show the selected music’s artwork: but sometimes the artwork does not change when the Media Player moves to the next song in a Playlist. The NAV6 Media Player will access Apple Music via the iTunes App on an iPhone but you have to know to use the Playlist option in the Media Player. The Pandora and Spotify services need to be started on your smartphone before the NAV6 can access them. Unlike the Garmin zumo 590/595 Series, the NAV6 does not have separate Apps for Pandora, Spotify or Apple Music. The new Media Player Bluetooth integration with a smartphone’s music is working well with the latest, v4.90, software installed: with some reservations. I recommend riding with the NAV6 for a while before deciding if you need a matte screen protector - I haven't found a need for one. You may find you need to position the NAV6 so as to reduce the reflection of the sky or yourself in the display when looking at darker on-screen menus. The NAV6 is still a resistive touch display so no special gloves are required. Because of this new screen cover, the NAV6 looks more like your smartphones display in that it has a very shiny and firm to the touch screen cover. Most polarized sunglasses should work okay with the NAV6 – try before you buy. The circular polarized screen cover, by itself, does make the display slightly less bright than the NAV5 but the enhanced contrast it provides and a slightly brighter backlight more than make up for it. The NAV6 has new display hardware that makes for much better on-road, sunlight over the shoulder, viewing. Many of those fixes did come via a couple of software updates – the latest of which, v4.90, fixed many of the known major issues. At last years MOA Rally in Salt Lake City, the BMW NA Rep’s and the Garmin Rep, assured us that they were working on fixes. Many of us experienced first hand that all of its new features were not quite ready for prime-time. It’s been almost a year since the Navigator VI (NAV6) was released for sale.
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