[NthKent]

Does anyone know why you can’t just enter (or say) a U.K. postcode in the iDrive SatNav of my 2020 M340i? Sometimes people just give you their postcode and it would be much easier to enter (say) just the postcode than the whole address…

[srbs73]

Originally Posted by NthKent

Does anyone know why you can’t just enter (or say) a U.K. postcode in the iDrive SatNav of my 2020 M340i? Sometimes people just give you their postcode and it would be much easier to enter (say) just the postcode than the whole address…

If you move your finger towards the screen, doesn’t it give you the option to enter the postcode via the keyboard?

I rarely do it that way though, my order of entering destinations is:
1) MyBMW app and send to car
2) Hey BMW voice search
3) Alexa voice search
4) Manual iDrive entry

[ramparts]

Originally Posted by NthKent

Does anyone know why you can’t just enter (or say) a U.K. postcode in the iDrive SatNav of my 2020 M340i? Sometimes people just give you their postcode and it would be much easier to enter (say) just the postcode than the whole address…

You can. If you have the July or November software, then there's just one field that will accept a postcode.

For the March 2021 software, they added the separate fields back in!