BMW 230I 2025 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin B650926 · NHTSA communication 11031577 · issued Apr 6, 2026
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2025
model years
4
vehicle entries
Official summary
The customer reports that the Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA) does not respond to the "Hey BMW" wake up word, or to the push-to-talk (aka voice activation) button on the steering wheel. Also, various voice commands are possibly not correctly executed.
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.