BMW 230I 2025 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin B650226 · NHTSA communication 11027776 · issued Jan 16, 2026
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2025
model years
4
vehicle entries
Official summary
While using BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant, the activation word (“Hey BMW”) must be reactivated afterevery terminal change, BMW Remote Software Upgrade; or customer profile change. Additionally, after a BMW Remote Software Upgrade, the setup process for the voice assistant must be runagain. This was not the case previously.
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.