I haven't seen a lot of discussion on the topic of customizing Infotainment screens yet and I think this is a feature about which many non-owners are unaware. You certainly won't find any reviewers talking about this, they're too busy fussing over volume knobs.
This is the Infotainment "home screen", which is presented when you tap the home screen box on the far left.
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On the bottom you can see three dots. These represent additional panels you can use simply by swiping left/right.
[Swipe Left to the Second Panel]
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[Swipe Left Again to the Third Panel]
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Some of these widgets can also have sub-panels inside of them, such as vehicle data and climate controls. For instance, you can swipe left inside the climate control widget to pan through all of the climate related options [Heated/Ventilated Seats -> Classic Climate Controls -> Smart Climate Controls]
[Swipe left once on the climate control widget]
The widget goes from heated seats to classic climate options:
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Each panel can be customized to display the information of interest to you. The process will feel familiar to creating shortcuts from the drop down menu on the infotainment. To modify the current panel, long press on the screen and you will get a menu of options for each available widget:
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Notice how the left widget is currently selected, which is done simply by tapping on it. Once a widget is selected, you can choose from a variety of display options down below, or clear the selection with the trash can icon. The number of options you get for any particular widget will depend on its size.
You can define up to four panels in addition to the home screen. To create a new panel, tap the pencil icon in the top right corner:
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Then you can tap the "+" icons to create a new panel that will be inserted either to the left or the right of the current panel. When you create a new panel, you can then choose the widget layout at that time:
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Once a new panel is created, you can then tap any of the individual widgets in that panel and select what information will be linked to it.
Additional Comments and Observations:
This is the Infotainment "home screen", which is presented when you tap the home screen box on the far left.
On the bottom you can see three dots. These represent additional panels you can use simply by swiping left/right.
[Swipe Left to the Second Panel]
[Swipe Left Again to the Third Panel]
Some of these widgets can also have sub-panels inside of them, such as vehicle data and climate controls. For instance, you can swipe left inside the climate control widget to pan through all of the climate related options [Heated/Ventilated Seats -> Classic Climate Controls -> Smart Climate Controls]
[Swipe left once on the climate control widget]
The widget goes from heated seats to classic climate options:
Each panel can be customized to display the information of interest to you. The process will feel familiar to creating shortcuts from the drop down menu on the infotainment. To modify the current panel, long press on the screen and you will get a menu of options for each available widget:
Notice how the left widget is currently selected, which is done simply by tapping on it. Once a widget is selected, you can choose from a variety of display options down below, or clear the selection with the trash can icon. The number of options you get for any particular widget will depend on its size.
You can define up to four panels in addition to the home screen. To create a new panel, tap the pencil icon in the top right corner:
Then you can tap the "+" icons to create a new panel that will be inserted either to the left or the right of the current panel. When you create a new panel, you can then choose the widget layout at that time:
Once a new panel is created, you can then tap any of the individual widgets in that panel and select what information will be linked to it.
Additional Comments and Observations:
- The list of all interface display options are the following, but not all options are available for every widget size:
- App-Connect, Climate Control, Driving Data, Help, Legal Notices, Map, Radio, Route, Settings, Setup Car-Net, Sound, Telephone, Vehicle.
- This is a handy way to maintain constant access to the features you use the most without losing the entire screen when accessing that feature. Don't want to lose the radio when changing the temperature? Just create a panel that has the radio and climate control widgets and you can use both without the screen needing to change.
- One unfortunate limitation is that a widget can only appear on one panel. If you try to create a climate control widget on two panels, it will remove it from the existing panel and move it to the one most recently added. Boooo.
- The smaller icons are simply shortcuts to the full screen. Hitting the "home" button from there will take you back to the panel you were on and not the "home" panel itself. For instance, if I create a panel that uses a small icon to link to the navigation map, I can tap on the map icon from my customized panel and the whole screen becomes the navigation map. When I hit the "home" button from there, it goes back to the previous panel that launched it.
