According to a report from automotive news Europe, BMW is temporarily shipping some vehicles without support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto due to the ongoing chip shortage. According to a statement the company gave to automotive news europe, BMW has changed suppliers and begun using a chip that doesn't fully support theANDROID auto and CarPlay The company stated that affected vehicles will receive an over-the-air software update by the end of June.
You can check if your vehicle is affected by the production code by checking it in the car's production code. All of the vehicles in question were manufactured in the first four months of 2022, and have final destinations in the US, France, Italy, Spain and the UK.
This is not the first time that BMW has delivered a car without certain features in order to avoid shipping delays. The global chip shortage caused the company to remove some features from some vehicles. BMW is not the only one to do this. Last fall, around the same time BMW was grappling with the touchscreen issue,Tesla decided to ship some cars with no ports. Ford shipped some Explorer SUVs without rear climate controls.
In the case of BMW, it could be worse. When Mercedes-Benz was faced with a similar dilemma, it chose not to include the chips in some vehicles, at which point customers would have to bring their cars into a ship to have them installed later.
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