Reading out loud
Text messages, e-mails, appointment entries, tasks, and notes can be read out loud.
1. Select the desired message, appointment, task, or note.
2. 
Select the symbol.
The following options are available during reading:
▷ 
"Pause".
Interrupt reading. Select again to restart reading.
▷ 
"Back to beginning".
Start reading message again from the beginning.
▷ 
Select the symbol.
Skip a paragraph.
▷ 
Select the symbol.
Go back one paragraph.
▷ To end reading, tilt the controller to the left.
See also:
Context help - Owner's Manual to the
temporarily selected function
The relevant information can be opened directly.
Opening during operation via iDrive
To move directly from the application on the
Control Display to the options menu:
1. Press the
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Switching on/off and interrupting cruise control
Switching on
Press the button on the steering wheel.
The indicator lamps in the instrument cluster
light up and the mark in the speedometer is set
to the current speed.
Cruise control can ...
TRACTION
When TRACTION is active, the vehicle has maximum
traction on loose road surfaces. DTC Dynamic
Traction Control, is activated.
Driving stability is limited during
acceleration and when dri ...