2019-2024 BMW 1 Series 4 Door OVERVIEW -> Personal settings User Manual
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Personal settings  
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Personal settings  
Deleting personal data in the  
vehicle  
Vehicle equipment  
This chapter describes all standard, country-spe‐  
cific and optional equipment available for the  
model series. It may therefore describe equip‐  
ment and functions which are not installed in  
your vehicle, for example on account of the spe‐  
cial equipment selected or the country specifica‐  
tion. This also applies to safety-relevant func‐  
tions and systems. Please comply with the  
relevant laws and regulations when using the  
corresponding functions and systems.  
Principle  
Depending on use, the vehicle stores personal  
data such as saved radio stations. This personal  
data can be permanently deleted using iDrive.  
General  
Depending on the equipment in your vehicle, the  
following data can be deleted:  
▷ Driver profile settings.  
▷ Saved radio stations.  
Data protection  
▷ Saved functional bookmarks.  
▷ Trip and on-board computer values.  
▷ Music hard disc.  
Data transfer  
▷ Navigation, for example saved destinations.  
▷ Phone book.  
Principle  
The vehicle offers various functions whose use  
requires data to be transferred to BMW or a serv‐  
ice provider. The transfer of data can be deacti‐  
vated for some functions.  
▷ Online data, for example Favourites, cookies.  
▷ Office data, for example voice memos.  
▷ Login accounts.  
It may take up to 15 minutes in total to delete  
data.  
General  
If data transfer has been deactivated for a func‐  
tion, then that function cannot be used.  
Operating requirements  
Data can only be deleted with the vehicle at a  
standstill.  
Only perform settings with the vehicle at a stand‐  
still.  
Activating/deactivating  
Follow the instructions on the Control Display.  
Via iDrive:  
Deleting data  
Follow the instructions on the Control Display.  
Via iDrive:  
1. "My Vehicle"  
1. "My Vehicle"  
2. "iDrive settings"  
3. "Data privacy"  
2. "iDrive settings"  
3. "Data privacy"  
4. Select the desired setting.  
4. "Delete personal data"  
5. "Delete personal data"  
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6. "OK"  
Operating requirements  
To ensure that the correct driver profile is ap‐  
plied, the system must be able to match the de‐  
tected vehicle key unambiguously to the driver.  
7. Exit and lock the vehicle.  
It takes 15 minutes to complete the deletion  
process.  
This is ensured if the following conditions are  
met:  
If not all data is deleted, repeat the deletion proc‐  
ess if required.  
▷ The driver is only carrying their own vehicle  
key.  
Cancelling deletion  
Switch-on drive-ready state to cancel data dele‐  
tion.  
▷ The driver unlocks the vehicle.  
▷ The driver enters the vehicle through the  
driver's door.  
Driver profiles  
Current driver profile  
The name of the current driver profile is dis‐  
played when the control display is switched on.  
Principle  
Individual settings for several drivers can be  
saved in the driver profiles and called up again as  
required.  
Select a driver profile, see page 57.  
As soon as the engine is started or any button  
pressed, the display selected last is shown on  
the Control Display.  
General  
To cancel the welcome screen via iDrive:  
"OK"  
Three driver profiles are provided, in which per‐  
sonal vehicle settings can be saved. Each vehicle  
key is assigned one of these driver profiles.  
Settings  
When the vehicle is unlocked with a vehicle key,  
the assigned driver profile is activated. All the  
settings saved in the driver profile are applied au‐  
tomatically.  
Settings for the following systems and functions  
are saved to the current driver profile. Which set‐  
tings can be saved depends on the country and  
equipment.  
If several drivers each use their own vehicle key,  
the vehicle will adapt to their personal settings  
when it is unlocked. These settings are also re‐  
stored if the vehicle is used in the intervening pe‐  
riod by someone with a different vehicle key.  
▷ Unlocking and locking.  
▷ Lights.  
▷ Air conditioning.  
▷ Radio.  
Any changes made to settings are automatically  
saved to the current driver profile.  
▷ Instrument cluster.  
▷ Functional bookmarks.  
▷ Volumes, sound.  
▷ Control display.  
If a different driver profile is selected via iDrive,  
the settings saved there are automatically ap‐  
plied. The new driver profile is assigned to the  
vehicle key currently in use.  
▷ Park Distance Control PDC.  
▷ Rear-view camera.  
▷ Head-Up Display.  
▷ Driving Experience Control.  
A guest profile is also available which is not as‐  
signed to any vehicle key. It can be used to per‐  
form settings on the vehicle without changing  
the personal driver profiles.  
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▷ Seat position, exterior mirror position, steer‐  
ing wheel position.  
Renaming the driver profile  
To avoid mixing up driver profiles, it is possible to  
assign a personal name to the current driver pro‐  
file.  
The positions set via the seat memory and  
the last position set are saved.  
▷ Cruise Control.  
Via iDrive:  
▷ Intelligent Safety.  
1. "My Vehicle"  
2. "Driver profiles"  
3. Select a driver profile.  
Profile management  
The driver profile marked with this symbol  
can be renamed.  
Selecting a driver profile  
Irrespective of which vehicle key is currently be‐  
ing used, it is possible to call up a different driver  
profile. This enables personal vehicle settings to  
be called up, even if the vehicle was not un‐  
locked with the driver's own vehicle key.  
4. "Change driver profile name"  
5. Enter a profile name.  
6.  
Select the symbol.  
Via iDrive:  
Resetting the driver profile  
1. "My Vehicle"  
2. "Driver profiles"  
3. Select a driver profile.  
4. "OK"  
The settings of the active driver profile are reset  
to factory settings.  
Via iDrive:  
1. "My Vehicle"  
▷ The settings saved in the selected driver pro‐  
file are applied automatically.  
2. "Driver profiles"  
3. Select a driver profile.  
▷ The selected driver profile is assigned to the  
currently used vehicle key.  
The driver profile marked with this symbol  
can be reset.  
▷ If the driver profile has already been assigned  
to another vehicle key, this driver profile then  
applies to both vehicle keys.  
4. "Reset driver profile"  
5. "OK"  
Exporting a driver profile  
Most of the settings of the current driver profile  
can be exported.  
Guest profile  
The guest profile allows individual settings to be  
performed without saving them to any of the  
three driver profiles.  
Exporting can be useful for backing up and call‐  
ing up personal settings, for example before tak‐  
ing the vehicle into a workshop. Once backed up,  
the driver profiles can be taken into a different  
vehicle.  
Via iDrive:  
1. "My Vehicle"  
2. "Driver profiles"  
3. "Drive off (guest)"  
4. "OK"  
Via iDrive:  
1. "My Vehicle"  
The guest profile cannot be renamed. It is not  
assigned to the currently used vehicle key.  
2. "Driver profiles"  
3. Select a driver profile.  
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The driver profile marked with this symbol  
can be exported.  
▷ The driver unlocks the vehicle using Comfort  
Access and is carrying a number of vehicle  
keys.  
4. "Export driver profile"  
▷ If there is a change of driver without the vehi‐  
cle being locked and unlocked.  
5. Select a medium for exporting the driver pro‐  
file.  
▷ If a number of vehicle keys are located in the  
area outside of the vehicle.  
▷ "USB device"  
If necessary, select the USB storage me‐  
dium, see page 62.  
▷ Online  
Via the BMW ConnectedDrive customer  
portal.  
Importing a driver profile  
The existing settings of the current driver profile  
are overwritten with the settings of the imported  
driver profile.  
Via iDrive:  
1. "My Vehicle"  
2. "Driver profiles"  
3. Select the driver profile to be overwritten.  
The driver profile marked with this symbol  
can be overwritten.  
4. "Import driver profile"  
5. Select a medium for importing the driver pro‐  
file.  
▷ USB storage medium: "USB device"  
If necessary, select the USB storage me‐  
dium.  
▷ Online.  
6. Select the driver profile to be imported.  
System limits  
It is not always possible to match a vehicle key  
unambiguously to a driver. This may be the case  
in the following scenarios:  
▷ The front passenger unlocks the vehicle with  
their vehicle key, but another person is driv‐  
ing.  
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