Sorry about the not very catchy thread title, it's difficult to encapsulate what I want to know!

Also sorry for the double posting, this is probably a better forum than General.

I have just ordered a new A6 for delivery in January. I have ordered the Technology Package Advanced, mainly because I want Adaptive Cruise Control, but the package gives me some Nice Toos.

One of those nice toos is "Mobile telephone preparation – High with online services."

However the paperwork specifies that it does not work with iPhones.

At first that didn't bother me much, as I have another data-only SIM which I thought that I could put in the SIM reader in the dashboard.

But now Audi are telling me that that won't work, because if I have a SIM in the dash, the Bluetooth connection to the iPhone doesn't work.

So, what they seem to be saying is that you can choose between being an iPhone user or an Audi customer. Either you give up on the car's online services, or you give up the iPhone.

The only suggestion that they can make is that, every journey, I take the SIM out of the iPhone, put it in a carrier to make it full size, and plug it into the dash.

Everyone I have mentioned this to says that Audi cannot be this stupid and that I should check, but the "Product Specialist" at Audi UK has agreed that Audi is, indeed, this stupid.

I ask now, rather than in 8 weeks when I have the car, because my Voda contract has come up for renewal, giving me a little more flexibility to change to another supplier who does multi-SIM deals, or change to a non-i phone. (I don't want to have to do either.)

So what workarounds have people discovered?