In conjunction with the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant, which voice commands can I use to control the functions of the phone in my vehicle?

You can control the functions of the phone in your vehicle using voice commands via the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant while your phone is connected to Bluetooth. Possible voice commands for this are:

Show phone book.
Call (contact name). *Contacts must be synced with vehicle for this command to work.
Dial number ---.
Pair my phone.

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