u/cshilton

Talk-to-text no longer works through the CarPlay App. Where should I start checking? My car is a 2026 BMW i5. I believe that I've applied the latest updates. My phone is an iPhone 16 running iOS 26.4.2.

I have already:

• Removed and re-paired the phone in the car, no joy.

This happens mostly after my wife uses the car with her keys and phone. It's frustrating enough that I'm about ready to take the car back to BMW. It doesn't help that I spent the weekend driving my '95 M3 at an autocross which leaves me nostalgic for simpler times.

A while ago, I posted that I thought I got a phishing scam. What I thought was a scam turned out to be a legit offer from Optimum. Here are some updates:

• I've done the upgrade from the offer. I have 1Gb/s down by 35Mb/s down.
• There are certainly strings attached...

Details:

1. Okay, so according to the tech, this is a 6 months to 1 year offer. After 6 months, I'll need to ask/beg for it to be extended to 1 year.

2. To get the offer I had to turn in their Cable modem and take the combined cable modem / router / wifi access point.

Problems:

I'm fine with this except for the fact that with the plain cable modem I automatically had "bridge mode". With the router, I have to find some way to get "bridge mode" turned on. I run a PF Sense router and my own Wifi access points. I have a big house so one WiFi AP/ router just doesn't cover it without massive dead spots and I had this figured out like 10 years ago. I spent an hour on the phone with the tech today and he said that he didn't know how to set up "bridge mode" and that I probably didn't need it any how.

Lacking bridge mode, I have to enable pass through to get any of the services that I want to offer enabled.

Long story short, I'm not sure this is an upgrade...