Hi, I haven't registered my or my wife's phone as a key. There are many reasons for this, a large one being I like my phone to stay charged longer and don't have Bluetooth on all the time. I also like my car not locking and unlocking when I'm nearby.
I know there are advantages to using the key, but I'm happy as is, so please this is not the place to convince me otherwise. I appreciate I'm in the minority but I'm great with that.
To date, my use case has worked beautifully in this manner. I take a key card when I need to drive the car, but otherwise also use the app regularly to change charging limits on the fly, turn on climate, schedule charging etc.
Interestingly, and frustratingly, I noticed this morning (perhaps following an update) that I and my wife had lost many controls on the app, not least of which were charging and climate controls. I've even lost the ability to lock and unlock the car via the app.
It seems this may be more of a concerted push to cut features of the app to encourage users to use the phone as a key; why... Who knows? This is a great shame. Now I may, finally, have to use the phone as a key to restore such features.
For those who don't have their phone setup as a key, have you noticed the above changes in app functionality? Aware of anything that brings back the remote climate, lock and charging controls? Is there something I'm missing?
I realise I could possibly set the phone up as a key and turn Bluetooth off. However, my wife keeps Bluetooth on for other reasons, so this isn't ideal and wouldn't work for both of us.
Note I did previously try the phone as a key, I think to try and use live view of cameras, but something with it frustrated me beyond the above, and I know I'm happiest without the phone set up as a key.
I'm running android Version 4.26.5-2027
Thanks team.
I know there are advantages to using the key, but I'm happy as is, so please this is not the place to convince me otherwise. I appreciate I'm in the minority but I'm great with that.
To date, my use case has worked beautifully in this manner. I take a key card when I need to drive the car, but otherwise also use the app regularly to change charging limits on the fly, turn on climate, schedule charging etc.
Interestingly, and frustratingly, I noticed this morning (perhaps following an update) that I and my wife had lost many controls on the app, not least of which were charging and climate controls. I've even lost the ability to lock and unlock the car via the app.
It seems this may be more of a concerted push to cut features of the app to encourage users to use the phone as a key; why... Who knows? This is a great shame. Now I may, finally, have to use the phone as a key to restore such features.
For those who don't have their phone setup as a key, have you noticed the above changes in app functionality? Aware of anything that brings back the remote climate, lock and charging controls? Is there something I'm missing?
I realise I could possibly set the phone up as a key and turn Bluetooth off. However, my wife keeps Bluetooth on for other reasons, so this isn't ideal and wouldn't work for both of us.
Note I did previously try the phone as a key, I think to try and use live view of cameras, but something with it frustrated me beyond the above, and I know I'm happiest without the phone set up as a key.
I'm running android Version 4.26.5-2027
Thanks team.
