BMW Motorrad Connected

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.3 1729 ratings · App Store

1. 1/5It was working before 5.0 upgrade

   It used to work well. Not the most sophisticated GPS app in the market, but did work. Your upgrade to version 5.0 renders the app useless. 1. Most of the time it just doesn’t work. The TFT display on the motorcycle flashes 0 miles to destination and I have to stop and close the app, so I can at least see some driving information like speed, on the display 2. When it makes believe it is working, I don’t see a detailed map. It tells me to download tons of unrelated maps from all around the world and when I manually pick only the relevant one - I see no details, and the route “selected” doesn’t make any sense. Need to learn the route before I go on my bike. Like in the old physical map days 3. Can’t understand how your upgrade messed up w/ existing data as I had the map working before! Never before did I see an upgrade that totally destroys the app data. Before users click the upgrade button, there should be a level of trust established between the user and the developer, knowing at least, that this upgrade wouldn’t impact the app functionality. Well, this trust was severely impacted. 4. Don’t believe this upgrade could have passed the modest QA test. Doesn’t make sense it did. So sorry I upgraded. Thought you’d improve rather that destroy the app. Very disappointed.

   Guillblu · 31 Jul 2026

2. 4/5Overall a great app but a little buggy

   I have been enjoying the BMW connected ride with my F750GS for about a year now. The bike integration is fantastic, but there are a couple of bugs that need to be addressed: - The real time speed limit is displayed in Km/h although I have set my preference to use Miles/h as the speed unit. A couple of releases back there was a different issue where the reported speed limit was one mile less than the actual limit! After fixing that issue, it is amazing to see a completely different issue affecting the same functionality! - The percentage of fuel remaining occasionally gets “stuck” at a certain level and won’t reflect the true fuel remaining. Once the tank is topped again, it jumps back to 100% and continues to be accurate until it will get stuck at some random point and won’t go down anymore! In contrast, the estimated remaining mileage seems to work correctly and stay always in-sync with the bike. Overall, the app is great and works quite well! Thank you!

   igloo3000 · 31 Jul 2026

3. 2/5Pretty good, when it works

   My rating would be higher if the developers didn’t break some functionality through updates every few months. Last time user login functionality was broken, now speed limit information is broken, we’ll see what’s next. When it is working, the app might be the best in the industry though. Stars also docked for transferring telemetry data via BLE to display in the app, but blocking any mechanism to export that data. It’d be a nice gesture for BMW Motorrad to facilitate export of that data, say, as a good faith gesture after breaking features. Update: Speed limit info is fixed! But now map visualization on route recording is broken. Other things that are broken: oil level is never displayed in motorcycle information; TPMS values are different across the display on the TFT and the app (by >1psi, they never match under any circumstances); recorded routes are titled with lat/long coordinates rather than the destination address now; probably some other stuff I haven’t noticed yet since it’s impossible to keep track of what’s working and what’s broken with each update cycle.

   OhFizzy · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5Much improved from 2023 but…

   This app does a great job tracking detailed info about my rides, and I love that data. I’ve been using the app since 2021, and it’s gotten much less buggy over time. I don’t really use the navigation options because there are more robust options available but bike and ride tracking data are great. Ride recordings are usually automatic and include speed, lean angle, accel and decel G, ABS events, etc. Very cool. There is one irritation still in the app - about once a month my authentication to the app expires and I have to re-log in. There’s no notification of this and the app won’t do anything (including local, non-cloud related things) until I log in. My only clue is that I’m 20 miles into a ride and notice the speed limit for the road I’m on isn’t displayed on my bike’s TFT in the white box like it usually is. And since I don’t notice this for a bit the first part of the ride isn’t tracked and is lost. So I find a safe place to pull over, take off my gloves, unlock my phone, open the app and my password manager, log in to the Connected app, re-glove, and tracking resumes. If I’m in a group ride this isn’t feasible. It would be great if the app would still track and provide speed limit data to the bike pre-login, or don’t expire the login, or at least do a push notification to the user in the phone or bike when re-authentication is required. I suppose if this is my biggest complaint the app is pretty good.

   Johnwag · 31 Jul 2026

5. 4/5Great App but, here are my feature requests to make it better.

   The app gets all the hate and it is for good reasons. Although the app has improved a lot since 2021 there’s a long way to go. Some minor additions mentioned below will hugely improve the usability 1. Show the name of the street/road we are on in the map mode. This shows when the map mode is deactivated but DOESNT show when Map mode is active. 2. Option to change font size for Map Mode so that street names are easily readable. 3. One click option to start new or stop navigation while in map mode instead of going through 3 menus. The ones below are bigger development ideas. 4. Make it a community, not that difficult to build. Able to share location with friends via Connected app and show friends locations on the map mode. 5. This one is also difficult. But will be a great feature in the future. Option to crowd source data like Waze but with one click of wonder wheel while in map mode.

   ParagSJ · 31 Jul 2026

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