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Took delivery M340i 4 days ago.

iPhone text messaging through idrive works only partially.

Receives text messages but has no identifier of who sent it. Also I cannot reply and cannot compose and send a text from idrive. BMW dealer states (wrongly I think) that Apple prevents this for security reasons. Which makes no sense since Apple Play allows text messaging sending and identifiable receiving. I cannot fix this.

Is this a software error?

Android phones do send and receive text messages perfectly through I drive on the 2019 330i, this also being idrive 7, which is also already installed in other BMW models.

Can anybody help with this issue?