On the BMW X3 M50, oil and intake-air temperatures are now checked against independent readings from the car itself, and shown without the ~ that marks an unconfirmed value. With oil confirmed, the summary after an X3 drive can tell you how long the oil took to catch the coolant, and a cold morning start no longer fools that count.

A drive that starts again soon after you switch off now keeps its peak torque: it is saved with the trip and shown in your history.

The 2026 BMW X3 M50 joins the Tundra and ID.4 with its own screen: torque, boost and voltage on the glance, a STOP timer while the engine rests, and its own CarPlay rows. LAST DRIVE takes you back to your most recent drive from the connect screen, and skips a quick shuffle in the driveway. Torque is now shown net of engine friction, which is what actually reaches the drivetrain, so peaks read lower than before and closer to the truth. Trips now end when the engine does, generic-car drives replay with their map and traces, and reconnecting after a stop is quicker.

It connects when you open it. Open takt with the adapter in the car and it connects on its own. No tap, no retry button. If the car is still asleep it keeps trying quietly until the bus wakes up, instead of giving up and waiting for you. Cars takt doesn't have a profile for now show more of what they already report — run time, barometric pressure, outside air temperature, and three more readings, on cars that advertise them. Nothing is invented: takt only shows a number when your car publishes it and the decoding is the published standard. Also: the session logs now record every connection attempt, including the ones that never reached the adapter, so a failed connection can actually be explained afterwards.

Route. Turn on route recording and takt draws where you drove on the parked screen, beside the temperature traces. It keeps recording while the screen is locked, so a drive is whole rather than whatever happened while you were looking at the phone. Sharing a route trims both ends. The image you get leaves out the first and last 250 metres and says so on its face, so posting a good drive does not post your driveway. Recording is off until you turn it on, and turning it off stops it immediately. Also: units now follow your iPhone, or you can set metric, US or UK yourself. And the diagnostics screen shows what your session logs cost on disk.