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Before my XS came, I had a 7 Plus and I just had to walk up to the car. So I dunno. You might be right. All I know is that the behavior changed with the new phone.
I regretted enough that I'm risking having my delivery pushed back by requesting an order change to add it. In typical Tesla fashion, its been 4 days and not even a acknowledgement of my change request.