Based on my experience last November, service had the ability to do this before when a repair order was open, but the app just wasn't able to distinguish. When I took re-delivery of my car after service the app wouldn't work, even after ensuring "mobile access" was enabled and doing reboots of the center and instrument clusters.
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Based on my experience last November, service had the ability to do this before when a repair order was open, but the app just wasn't able to distinguish. When I took re-delivery of my car after service the app wouldn't work, even after ensuring "mobile access" was enabled and doing reboots of the center and instrument clusters.
With the old process, the app would say something like, 'Remote Access Off, to turn it on....' it made no mention of the vehicle being in for service. Remote access would also be restored when they were done working on the car and before they closed the ticket out, at least at my SC.
Now there is no ability to have remote access until you sign the paperwork to pick up your car, and the SC then closes the ticket in their system. At least that's my experience.
mspohr
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I'm kind of clueless here... I read that the new app has "widgets".
What's a widget? What do they do? How do I get one?
Widgets can be added or removed to the very left screen of the home screen, or the left screen of the Notification Center. If your phone does 3D Touch, you can also hard press the Tesla app to get to the widget.
It provides quick at-a-glance functionality without having to open the whole app. Tesla's widget shows your battery charge, and provides a climate, unlock, and start button.
mspohr
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Chopr147
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This is what I like most about it. I pre-heat each morning but for some reason I always had to set temp., app turns off, set temp. again and it would work.
I can "vent" sunroof. Are you looking for full open? Maybe a future update will give window control. That can be useful in a hot climate.
Kudo's to Tesla for a fine update!
Yes, that is how it worked for me too. It sounds like the new system is more obvious about what's going on, which is an improvement.
A major improvement for me is that it actually refreshes every time I open it. With the old version I would (about 50% of the time) open it, have to back out, then open it again.
I agree the UI is improved and performance is better, but there was no added functionality.
Living in Chicago, I was hoping for a greatly increased COLD WEATHER feature add, such as the ability to remote launch
steering wheel heat
passenger and rear seat heat
For summertime, the ability to
open all windows
open sunroof fully
Living in Chicago, I was hoping for a greatly increased COLD WEATHER feature add, such as the ability to remote launch
steering wheel heat
passenger and rear seat heat
For summertime, the ability to
open all windows
open sunroof fully
Mihai
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Been using the app for few days now on iPhone 7.
Pros
Cons
I hope this is just the beginning and new functionality will be added soon.
Pros
- Much better UI design, cleaner, fresher
- More responsive than the old app
- iOS widget is handy
- Last updated status shows when the app was last refreshed
- Key-less start with touch ID
Cons
- Not much new functionality added (except for the widget and touch ID start)
- More difficult to go back to main screen as the back button is now on top of the screen
- The old fashion speedometer showing regen and acceleration is now gone
- No possibility to start seat warming, mirror warming or back windshield warming
I hope this is just the beginning and new functionality will be added soon.
IMHO, removing the speed and power gauge from the stream API is a serious regression. I won't be updating.
Not sure yet; I rarely use energy saving mode but I might give it a shot. I know the widget says "open app" whenever my car is offline in my garage, so I wonder if it'd skip the "waking car…" phase.
I agree with those that state that the updated App doesn't have any new functionality. It looks more modern but its basically the same. The one thing I noticed (but it may have been there but I just didn't notice before) is that you location also shows up on the map along with the cars location and appears to give you directions back to your car.
That functionality was in the previous version as well.
I think the updated app is just a new framework that is more modern and will allow them to easily add new functionality. I'm sure they'll be enabling new features in the coming months.
George Jetson
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It's just easier to access than opening the full app if all you want to do is unlock the car or pre-condition the interior. I agree with others that the full app seems to connect faster to the car.
Drone Flyer
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I guess that it what has happened too. We'll see in a few months. It could well be that the first version was built quickly by some contractor and they wants to redo it properly. A refactoring with feature parity is what you normally aim for as the first step.
That's surprising. It's much faster for me. I always had to watch the wheel spin, now it seems instantaneous.
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