Preconditioning before Driving

[DanDi58]

Ok, here is kind of a dumb question,. In the past, to precondition the car before driving for the first time in the morning, I would use the phone app and hit the little fan button on the main screen of the app. After the last app update, I noticed a little battery icon in the Controls screen that is labelled 'Start'... So now I'm wondering which button to hit to precon the car, or do they both serve the same purpose?

 

[GtiMart]

Check if both show a little bacon sign at the top in the main screen. That's the icon that shows if the battery is heating.

 

[DanDi58]

After doing a little searching, it seems that the 'Start' icon is mainly for remote start if you want to unlock the car and allow someone - or yourself, if you lose phone access and your keycards - to drive the car with no key present. It doesn't have the 'bacon' waves but more like a WiFi-type wave - see pic below.

Update - did a little experiment - hit the 'Start' icon and unlocked the car, and I was able to drive it with no phone with me and without key card. When you get in the car, it says 'Keyless Driving Enabled' So that icon isn't (necessarily) for preconditioning. I will continue to use the fan icon.