The x3 M50 I acquired appears to have reset the ambient light to its default blue setting every time I start the vehicle (I am almost always in personal mode). Am I missing something or everyone is experiencing the same thing?

The ambient light is bound to the drive mode.

Usually the car reverts to the default drive mode after you turn it off. There might be a setting in the iDrive where you can define the startup default drive mode.

Ravenous666 wrote

The ambient light is bound to the drive mode.

Usually the car reverts to the default drive mode after you turn it off. There might be a setting in the iDrive where you can define the startup default drive mode.

Yes the default mode is personal, and every single time I changed it it seems not be able to memorize it. And at a new start it reset back to blue.

My wife and I have different ambient color settings, and so far our X3 M50 has always correctly restored our respective ambient colors depending on who's driving. Just to be clear: you do have your BMW ID set up, right?

MidnightLight wrote

My wife and I have different ambient color settings, and so far our X3 M50 has always correctly restored our respective ambient colors depending on who's driving. Just to be clear: you do have your BMW ID set up, right?

I did, that's exactly the weird one.

Alright I turned off the BMW ID cloud syncing, seems like it is working now.

You can go into the I drive and set the default mode you want. I had the same issue and changed the default mode to the one I wanted.

All right, this might be an existing bug for iDrive9 (or a bug in my vehicle). On/off the cloud syncing won’t help. I also tried to reset the whole iDrive9 system and re-added my phone as the digital key. And the default mode I set up is “personal,” so the personal mode somehow just intends to change the ambient light color back to the default blue color every now and then very randomly. Also, if you have 2 profiles and switch back and forth, it works just fine for both. It only happens when I have my own profile on the vehicle. I give up for now, and I will just change the color every single time then.

MiniCookie wrote

All right, this might be an existing bug for iDrive9 (or a bug in my vehicle). On/off the cloud syncing won’t help. I also tried to reset the whole iDrive9 system and re-added my phone as the digital key. And the default mode I set up is “personal,” so the personal mode somehow just intends to change the ambient light color back to the default blue color every now and then very randomly. Also, if you have 2 profiles and switch back and forth, it works just fine for both. It only happens when I have my own profile on the vehicle. I give up for now, and I will just change the color every single time then.

I have the exact same issue in my car also. I have tried everything, including even removing my BMW ID which includes resetting the car like it was new again. If the car has been sitting overnight it normally will revert back to blue and then I switch the color. However, starting it several times in the same day it will normally stay in the brownish color I like better with my brown interior. I'm hoping it gets fixed through and update but the latest update didn't fix it. Let me know if you ever figure out a fix please.

drex89 wrote

I have the exact same issue in my car also. I have tried everything, including even removing my BMW ID which includes resetting the car like it was new again. If the car has been sitting overnight it normally will revert back to blue and then I switch the color. However, starting it several times in the same day it will normally stay in the brownish color I like better with my brown interior. I'm hoping it gets fixed through and update but the latest update didn't fix it. Let me know if you ever figure out a fix please.

It works fine now, and I don't know why, it seems like all I need to do is switch to guest first, and then switch to my own driver profile, then select the color, with the car in a place it has good cellular signals, it all started working fine.

I use the fob (haven't tried to set up a digital card yet on my phone) and had to make sure I linked the fob to my profile. That seemed to do the trick for me. Also helped me avoid choosing my profile every time which is tied to my "personal" mode. Still spending a few minutes every day with my car getting to know all the settings and discovering something new every time.

Hi,
anybody has solved the issue?

I have exactly the same problem: it resets to default blue whenever I get into the car (yes, sometime it doesn't but only if not too much time passed). I have one profile (bmw id) configured and always in a "personal" mode.

Now, I have found veeeerry interested thing The problem happens only when I set the color to "ivory" (translating from Polish, don't know if it's the same name in other languages but it's the 1st color on the palette - pale brown/beige). Setting the color to any other one (i.e. green) is permanent - never resets to blue. I have tested it many times with 100% results.

Any ideas?

I have the exact same problem. The next closest color is more of a yellow and it works fine with keeping that color. The ivory choice ends up switching to blue when I get back in the car. I like the ivory color better since it goes well with my brown veganza interior. It would be nice to resolve this relatively minor problem.

drex89 wrote

I have the exact same problem. The next closest color is more of a yellow and it works fine with keeping that color. The ivory choice ends up switching to blue when I get back in the car. I like the ivory color better since it goes well with my brown veganza interior. It would be nice to resolve this relatively minor problem.

Exactly, I was trying to use ivory white when I post this thread. Now I am using ocean blue, everything works fine.

I have reprted the issue to BMW. Interesting if anybody responds. Have you done it too?

Gorbi wrote

I have reprted the issue to BMW. Interesting if anybody responds. Have you done it too?

No, I just changed to another color and didn’t bother reporting to them.

I didn’t report it either but I probably should.

Gorbi wrote

I have reprted the issue to BMW. Interesting if anybody responds. Have you done it too?

I would like to report it too, as this is the preferred colour for my wife Where did you report it?

I'm having the same issue. Refuses to stay on ivory. Always goes back to blue. Oh well, first world problems. LOL!

tuchkata wrote

I would like to report it too, as this is the preferred colour for my wife Where did you report it?

I found an email address in the My BMW app.