contacts no longer sync with BMW iDrive IOS13

I found this youtube video about the same issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5yow7nn9kI

Yep, 13.2 has done the trick! What a painful few weeks that was!!!

Tried the same… no solution, contacts still appear random (some display, others don't).

Earlier today I even had a contact that displayed as TYPE=CELL:number…

It is clear that Apple broke this with iOS 13... no need to point fingers to BMW.

I just installed iOS 13.1.1 which didn't solve the issue neither.

Initially it showed contacts with Y (the last letter I have contact on) but there was a gap between N and W with no contacts displayed.

Waiting a minute or two… my contacts ended at letter P (and those initially shown from W - Y where gone again).

I'm not sure about BMW, however some vehicles have a restriction as to how many contacts you can sync to the vehicle. I had a vehicle like that and it would only sync the first 500. Considering you say that you are using your work contacts, I wonder if that could be an issue.

To eliminate the number of contacts being the problem, I took all my exchange contacts off the phone leaving only the contacts on the phone (saved in iCloud). That is a total of 286 contacts which seems to be a modest number. I then turned on the car, and counted (manually) the number of contacts in the car contacts file. Only 106 transferred. Some letters of the alphabet were missing entirely and others had a partial list of my contacts under that letter of the alphabet. Turning off the car and turning it back on after a period of time always gives me a different list of contacts that are downloaded. I am on IOS 13.1.2 which does nothing to resolve this problem.

Is it possible that in IOS 13 not all contacts are actually stored on the phone (some remaining in iCloud until needed) and only those actually on the phone are transferring? I am grasping here. Is anyone aware of any other make of car affected by this problem?

Same issue here. Did the connection deletions on both phone and vehicle, worked until next time I started the car. Did factory reload of iOS 13, worked once just as in the deletion and re-pair but then did not on next restart of car. No issue in my Ram. BMW claims no software update on their end.

I have tried every trick. Format , Bluetooth, Siri reset. Since nothing worked I came to the conclusion that OS 13.1.2 is causing a major problem with syncing contacts on BMW F30. What is Apple trying ? They just lost not me, but 1000’s of Customers because of their inability to sort out all the problems encountered with 10/11

I have the same problem with my BMW. It is since IOS 13.1.2. I never had a problem with BMW and Iphone for 12 years.

The contact list is not complete synchronised since IOS 13.1.2 and they did not solve the problem with IOS 13.1.3

It is even worse.

Was it really permanent solution for you? Because when I reconnected the phone the contacts synced once. But with the next ride the contacts did not synchronized again.

Which phone, and what’s the model/year of your BMW?

Updated to software TB-006.007.032

Sync worked once after removing and adding the device again , but today it’s broken again.

Here you can find some help...

https://www.bmw.com/en/footer/compatibility-check.html

Tried it yesterday once more and it doesn't even solve it... yes I do get other/more contacts but it is still random.

Currently I only see one name with N on my carkit, some of other letters and none of some other letter.

It's even so random that each time I get in the car I see a different list of contacts that do/don't show up.

Strange that people suddenly start to look for reasons other than iOS 13 why it fails.

This always worked fine before iOS 13 and the number of contacts didn't change. If this would be a restriction I would also expect that it stops at a certain contact... and doesn't show random contacts like it does now.

This clearly is a bug introduced with iOS 13 so can someone at Apple have a look at this… this is really annoying !