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PSA: Don’t log out of the Tesla App, or Phone-As-Key wont work for 3

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If you close the app....your logged out...right?

Seems like I'd want to keep the keycard on me to guarantee I'll be able to get in and work my car....wow...this is very enlightening.
Yup, news to me. Doesn't this seem like a dumb design that you have to depend on cloud services to get into your car? And you know when this happens, right? When it is raining, cold, and that strange person is following you to the car !
 
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If you close the app....your logged out...right?

Seems like I'd want to keep the keycard on me to guarantee I'll be able to get in and work my car....wow...this is very enlightening.
No, if you close the app, even fully, it won’t actually log you out. And you will still be able to establish a Bluetooth connection to the 3.

Only if you explicitly log out. Which is what I did. And because the servers were down, then I couldn’t log back in. So, I couldn’t connect to the 3 via Bluetooth then.