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This has not been my experience, either, as others have noted. Works easily 95+% of the time for me. Maybe once per month of driving the car multiple times daily does it fail to unlock in proximity to my phone.
I haven't had trouble with it changing driver profiles, too, but my wife rarely drives it. Though it's never incorrectly set her profile for when I'm driving despite her and her phone being in the car.
Except the response to the posts you quoted include evidence to the contrary. Telsa internal documents refer to the body style refresh as "Highland" and the Tesla press has been referring to it as such for almost a year now. Though Telsa doesn't publicly refer to it as such.
But saying "new Model 3" is not really helpful, as someone could own a very new Model 3 but not the 2024 refresh.... aka "Highland."
Kind of like when people referred to the various model PowerBooks by their codenames like "Pismo". It was never called "PowerBook Pismo" but techies knew what you were referring to.
Apple Watch works for me, via a third party app. I’d prefer proper support from Tesla though.
I agree that overall, Tesla is a better experience. But CarPlay has some pretty clear advantages in some areas such as third-party apps, and especially Siri. As much as we make fun of Siri, Tesla's voice interface is abysmal by comparison.
Tesla can't even get the words right half the time: "Turn off the wipers" often gets interpreted as nonsense like "Turn off the wife please" no matter how clearly and loudly I try to speak. Siri, on the other hand, may have limited comprehension capabilities but at least it correctly hears your words.
yes. I am 100% sure I correctly set it up. have had 4 different iPhones, set it up at least 20+ times, even enabled the new motion activity feature where Tesla tracks your iPhones motion to decide whether or not to unlock
it's not just me. even happened to Linus when he was shooting the intro to his Model 3 video. it literally happened on camera (watch the intro)
I have a late year 2023 build Model 3. My now old phone an xs max worked about 99% of the time. My new phone a 15PM works 90%, wet finger n the air, of the time.
I haven’t tried the usual troubleshooting steps…yet.
You can have CarPlay / android auto & android os in center screen of a Tesla Via Tesla Android Project. I have used carplay for 1.5 years In my tesla. I find the do it yourself raspberry pi route works better than premade bundle but if your car is older than 2021 model then you need to use premade. Bundle or there will be extreme lag. There are other devices that put CarPlay in center screen. I also have a behind the wheel screeen which is gaUge readouta or CarPlay or android auto.
I have a late 2021 build date model y, Bluetooth key via iPhone 13 Pro max & 15 pro max work very well.
that evidence doesn't prove much. it's entirely possible employees read rumors and named the files in that way. same way with the press.
There must be something unique to either your car or your phone since for the vast majority of people it’s reliable. Sorry it’s working so poorly for you.
Same here with a mid-2023 Model Y, and any model of iPhone we've tried. Works great.
Some issues with a Samsung Android phone, though. Notably the Model Y always locks reliably as you walk away from it with an iPhone, but sometimes does not with the Samsung? And then sends out a notification telling you that the doors have been left unlocked. 🤷♂
We also noticed Bluetooth issues when making calls on the Samsung with the Tesla, where a few minutes into the call the person at the other end can't hear you any more, but you can still hear them. The same phone works perfectly fine with other cars.
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majority? sure. but I can easily find thousands of reports of this happening. it's not unique to me, but rather we are technically a minority, sure.
What I find most interesting is when people get the fob they report it working just fine, even though the fobs all use BLE only now. So if the problem was the car the fob shouldn't work either.
sure, it's probably iPhone doing some power saving, but again, it's not a unique problem to me personally.
Of course, I 100% remember all the original phone as key complaints. Tesla never planned to make a fob for the 3/Y and when they did it wasn't passive (I still have one). I just found it interesting that most peoples problems went away when they switched to the fob, it isn't infallible though; I can get mine (have a passive one too) to not work in some situations.