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Can someone please explain me Phone key benefit

Discussion in 'Model Y: User Interface' started by fokap888, Feb 18, 2021.

  1. WattsappMTL

    WattsappMTL Member

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    Mine sometimes selects my wife's profile when her phone is nowhere near the car. BTW, priority phone is only for calls and streaming. It's supposed to select the profile corresponding to the phone it detects on the driver side but I don't understand why it screws up from time to time. It is a quirky system but works well most of the time.
     
  2. DaveG_NJ

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    Better yet, have your wife get out and and drive away - fast! :D
     
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  3. jcanoe

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    Saw this on Reddit / Teslamotors just today.

    OP Q: What does tapping the keys person icon that’s next to the trash icon do? When I tap it, it says saving at the top of the screen where my profile name is. Under keys it says “active/apple iPhone/profile name” then I tap the person icon and it says saved but then just says “active/apple iphone” it no longer has the profile name next to iPhone. However, no matter what it says under keys my profile stays the same in the notification bar up top. What’s the difference if it says my profile name under keys or not?

    A: My understanding is when you select one of those profiles, it will associate it with that key in the future. For example, my phone is associated with my profile, so when I use my key, the car sets it to that profile. I don't think it will change the profile while you're in that screen, it's simply linking the profile to a key.

    OP: Ok that makes sense I was confused because the profile stayed the same and when I’d make changes it would prompt to save the profile regardless of what I had in the key settings. I wasn’t separating the settings being associated with the key vs the profile in my mind. Makes sense now thank you.
     
  4. laservet

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    WRT Android, I have selected the Tesla app under Battery: Background Usage Limits: Never Sleeping Apps. Everything works without the app being opened, I can approach the car and it opens and unlocks without having the app open or in the tray at the bottom of the screen. Do you know if this keeps the care awake or if it only awakes if I open the app or approach the car without the app open? I know Android is a different world but since you wrote an app I was hoping you would know.
     
  5. mswlogo

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    I would suspect how you have setup Android would be any different than iOS (with it’s intended setup).

    It’s hard to say what the car will do. But I do know with the Model X if I leave the FOB in the car it does not properly sleep. I vaguely recall there is a dead zone you can put your FOB so the car doesn’t “see it”.

    If a phone is responding to Bluetooth nodes that’s how it allows you to open the door and drive. Just like a FOB. So if you leave your phone in the car that’s set up to stay in your pocket (Android or iOS) it likely won’t sleep properly as well.

    If you never leave the phone in the car it should sleep no matter how you setup your phone.

    There were threads about people complaining (or concerned) there car didn’t sleep just because they saw devices in their blue tooth list on their phone. The car knows your proximity by using multiple blue tooth devices and it needs several strong signals to know your close to unlock and drive. If you are 20 ft away and see one or two devices I think it will sleep fine. My model 3 did and part of our house was over the garage and I always saw devices listed. I think as long as you stay outside of the range it locks at I think it should sleep even if you see devices connected in Bluetooth settings.
     
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    Thank you.
     

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