How do I get my BMW heads up display? In BMWs with Operating System 7 you can switch it on or off by going to “CAR”, “Settings”, “Displays”, “Head-up display” and check the box “Head-up display”. The brightness automatically adapts to the ambient light, but can also be manually adjusted under “Brightness”. Depending on the production date of your BMW, you can make the following settings for the BMW Head-up display (HUD) in the BMW iDrive operating system: BMW Head-up display on/off, brightness of the display, rotation of the display, height of the display, image height of the display. In addition, you can select which information is displayed in 3284 posts · Joined 2006. #10 · Sep 3, 2009. ianis.bavaria said: Under that HUD glass, i've noticed some sort of plastic screen, that should move when you activate HUD, this allowing the information to be reflected on the windshield. Try to see if you have this movement, maybe that screen is stucked or something. Join Date: Aug 2022. Location: New York. iTrader: ( 0) Waze & Heads Up Display. Morning all, I’ve been wondering if this is a feature limitation or if I’m doing something wrong. If I use Apply Maps with CarPlay on my ‘23 G01 M40i, I get the nice integration into the heads up display for turn-by-turn. However, with Waze this is not the case. HUDWAY is one of the leading brands on the market developing the ultimate add-on component that will allow most cars to use Waze as a Heads-Up-Display. Their first model is scheduled to come out in September 2023, and you can preorder it now for $299.99. I know this is far from ideal and quite expensive, but if you want to get the full HUD How to get Navigation on Heads up display from Google Maps on BMW? I just switched to Apple and found out that only Apple Maps shows the step by step direction on the heads up display on my BMW when connected via CarPlay. If I change the navigation app to Google Maps/Waze, the directions no longer show up on the HUD. 2792 posts · Joined 2006. #3 · May 14, 2013. It is full color - I don't know what features the 3 series has, but can tell you if the X3 has them or not if you list what you like. Basically out of the box, it has a startup graphic and shows speed, check control messages and turn by turn Nav in color. With a little light coding, mine now also BMW Head Up Display Not Working? Check this first before you go to the dealer! Like & Subscribe! Bobeaseshop 448 subscribers Subscribe Like Share 28K views 2 years ago more more UuPgi0h.