I recently purchased a 2019 F56 with the MINIConnect (not with CarPlay) and am having trouble retrieving stations that I saved as "starred" presets (press and hold the main setting ****, then choose the preset number to save as).

Setting the starred presets is in the manual, but how to get back to that listing, without an attempt to save a channel as a preset is not in the manual.

 

Figured it out. It's actually Presets.

You press either the Menu button and select Media or push the Media button, or press the Mode button. There is a Presets option at the top of the list in each case.

 

I've been a little confused at those also. I wanted to be able to scroll just my favorite Sirius channels for example, but I gave up. Maybe I'll dig back into it.

 

What's frustrating is that with terrestrial radio, moving presets around/changing numbered preset positions is easy...and works the same way it did on the 2016 F56 base model/base radio I had then. With Sirius/XM though, you can't do this; can't move SXM presets to different numbered locations within the Presets menu. I find this highly frustrating, and hate spending the time I have inside my MINI deleting all my SXM favorites and then re-adding them to the numbered preset position I prefer.

I know there's no fix for this, it's just a PITA to have to discover a new channel/content I want fast access to as a preset, only to find I can't move it to, say Preset 5 if I want to. I have to delete whatever is stored as Preset 5 and move everything down manually. This is not fun.

 

See my post above. I figured it out as presets. Once you select Presets as a mode, you can scroll through them. It treats them like a separate device, which is odd.