Digital DriveStyle App App Reviews

Probably in light of the recently announced CarPlay integration Mercedes doesnt pay much attention to the flaws in this Digital Drive Style App. Worse: They only allow feedback to their App if you fully agree to the publication of your personal details to external marketing companies. There is no e-mail address, no phone number. I even wrote snail mail to the board. They simply dont care. If they would be seriously interested in feedback they would open an unrestricted communication channel. Hence this 1 star. Stay away from this App. Perhaps CarPlay is better.But based on my 1 year experience with thisI really doubt it.

Have you tested the app with iPhone 6 and iOS 8.4? Does it work?

No updates in 2 years, the program rarely operates properly, and no new updates for apple watch. Sad to see Mercedes completely abandon their customers like this. $1000 for something that is never used.

I an very disapointed with this app. The app quality is dun par. It rarely work corectly. The radio integration module is very expensive ($1000 installed). You dont have access to most of the iphone features. The app focus on useless feature like Twitter and do not implement important feature like imessages or e-mail. The Integration between the GPS and the iPhone features is inexistant.

I have installed on a new Class A W176. SIRI is not working and it does not play music on iCloud, only downloaded music. This is upsetting, considering the cost of MB DriveKit.

Crashes immediately 100% of time on my 4s. Useless. Buddy tried it on his 5, runs. Needs landscape mode please. Id pay for this if it ran & had landscape.

When will an iPhone 5 version be available?

Hi I need a UAE map !!! Why there is no one ???

With the iPhone 5S being announced this week, this app isnt even close to being current. Disappointing for the app to be so far behind the times!

To whom it may concern, I am writing this review to complain about the delayed release of this app for the iPhone 5. A big selling point of the brand new CLA 250 is its inclusion of a sophisticated interface between the iPhone and car. It is even spelled out on the sales guide that as your fingers caress the stitching of the steering wheel, your body and mind will connect with the car in a whole new way using an unparalleled experience of iPhone interfacing. Ironically this is not available for my iPhone 5 and for the last 2 months, Ive been told you are working "full speed". Now hold on here -- dont you think the sales market for this car targets a tech savy youth generation? Didnt you have sales training meetings with dealership heads explaining the new techniques that will be used to sell this car to the youth market. Well what member of the youth market would be purchasing this brand new car and still own a dated iPhone -- Especially an iPhone 4 that is now antiquated by 2 new generations. Mercedes, please review your iPhone software developers determination to completing this project and crack that whip! Best, Young & Discouraged Purchaser

This app isnt working my new car, needs major work. I was excited to download the app, but it turned out to be a flop! Please fix!

Just have drive-kit-plus installed, it was the first one that my dealer installed. It finally worked after the 3rd trips. Siri did not work with the commands to play different songs although it worked with other commands. Not sure why since it worked when iphone not connected to drive-kit-plus. Might need software update. It would be nice if I can import favorite locations from Garmin to drive-kit-plus but currently It is not possible

It stops working all the time very frustrating specially if you are in the middle of the road and the Map stop working, Its unbelievable that Mercedes Benz uses such a bad app

The app works fine, the maps are not great, i think they should use the already integrated maps or google maps as they have more detail. MB r&d please keep updating the app to not make me feel guilty in spending this much money on this add on.

Not worthy of the money, the time in the show driving a loaner or the efforts trying to work with it. Total rip off.

Piece of crap, 600 bucks, plus installation. Please do something to make this crap work well.

Absolute rubbish. Does not have maps for South Africa. Pointless and useless.

This App is a total waste of money, my car spent five weeks at the Mercedes dealer. It keeps crashing, Siri doesnt work half the time, cant tell when someone sends me a text because the phone is in the glove box and I get no notification. Wish I had never had this thing installed. Mercedes is this the best you can do?!

I had Drive Kit Plus installed on my 2014 SLK, which is the supporting option needed to connect with this supporting iPhone App. The Kit provides access to Facebook, Google+ & Twitter for those that need that in their car, which is a good safety improvement over texting. The Google Maps (not Apple Maps) implementation is perhaps one of the best and would be great for customers without COMAND (which I have) or Becker Nav. I must say though, that Drive Kit Plus is a huge disappointment when it comes to usability and integration with the rest of the vehicle. Even I, as someone that has spent 40 years in programming/hardware/support and can generally be technically self-sufficient, have found it difficult to use in almost every way. It must be turned on in one of two not-intuitive ways each time you turn on your vehicle and want to use the capabilities. You must physically plug-in your iPhone to an adapter installed into your glovebox (no wireless) to access any capabilities. There are very significant limitations when Drive Kit Plus is turned-on either completely inhibiting use of standard audio sources such as AM/FM/Sirius/CD (and COMAND Nav), or in the other mode, limiting access to those sources only to volume changes while Drive Kit Plus is active (i.e. no source or channel changes while the kit is active.) I cannot access iPhone music in one mode, despite the manual suggesting it’s possible and the interface looking like it should be playing. Internet streaming radio does work, but not via services like Pandora. The manual is very difficult to comprehend — even the English version describes a “c (with a graphical box around it) delete” button to enable the Kit that does not exist in my US vehicle —after lots of trial-and-error, I found the engineers really meant the “CLR” button next to the Command dial. If you want to access Siri, it’s only available once Drive Kit Plus is started, and you then must take your eyes off the road to move your cursor using the Command dial over a small microphone icon at the top of the display. There is no simple button (or long push) to access it e.g. on the steering wheel as other mfgr Siri Eyes Free implementations use. I’m very disappointed, as the limitations and more complete implementation of this App with Drive Kit Plus are not described on this App’s Website, nor anywhere else, including my Dealer that had no information or experience with this Kit and this App until it was just installed in my SLK. Mercedes-Benz has done an uncharacteristically poor job testing and designing how this App and Drive Kit Plus can and is really used by customers in their vehicles, unlike nearly everything else I’ve come to expect from this age-old company. Drive Kit Plus simply feels like more of a skunk-works early implementation — not something that is a premium $1200 parts & labor option available from a premium luxury brand.

my car has been in the dealer now for a week and they yet cant figured out how to get the kit to work. Besides that I ordered the kit for the iPhone 5/6 plus and the kit received was the iPhone 4/4s. So I dont have my car, I spent over 1000.00 dollars on the kit, plus the installation, a kit for an older iPhone... MB, what kind Of rating can I give you guys on this product??? I would have given you no stars, but I have to give at least give you one; because this is not the mechanics fault. it is a non comparable equipment which needs to be taken out of the market until the problem is fixed.