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From twitter “ To enable text messaging with the new update you do the following:
On the Tesla display, go to bluetooth connected phones, next to your phone click the little ">" to pull up the bluetooth settings for that connected phone, then click RECONNECT. When it reconnects it will ask for permission to access your text messages.“
Clarification:
These phone/Bluetooth settings are found by going to Music -> Phone -> then click on “Connect Phone”. (Hopefully this spares someone else the confusion I suffered.)
Observation:
There is no “Reconnect” button on this screen in my Model 3. Only “Disconnect” and “Forget This Device” buttons.
Tesla didn’t say anything about it needing iOS 13 and I was able to use it (kind of) when it first rolled out. Yesterday, however, even though I was able to have an incoming message read to me, I saw a quick flash about iOS 13 when I tried to respond.
I’m using an iPhone 6 so limited to the latest security update on iOS 12. I don’t do a lot of texting but, since this is a safety feature, I’m really surprised that Tesla didn’t make it backward compatible to the stone age. Obviously, there has to be a cutoff with Bluetooth protocols but the last version of an os seems a bit short sighted; especially since it did (kind of) work initially.
Thanks for starting this thread. Tough to find any info about the issue.
yea....before I got the new updates on my M3, both rec and reply worked with my 6 plus.....with my new MS I can receive but can not reply....my 6 plus cannot update to iOO....need new phone
I have an iphone 6, and can’t use the messaging features. Why can’t Tesla rewrite these messenger features to work with older ios software? It’s ridiculous to have to buy a new iphone just to have this feature(s).
I have an iphone 6, and can’t use the messaging features. Why can’t Tesla rewrite these messenger features to work with older ios software? It’s ridiculous to have to buy a new iphone just to have this feature(s).
because they have about 30,000 more important things to do than re-write the SW to work with a phone that was already discontinued a year before the first Model 3 was even sold?
13.3.1 on my SE
From twitter “ To enable text messaging with the new update you do the following:
On the Tesla display, go to bluetooth connected phones, next to your phone click the little ">" to pull up the bluetooth settings for that connected phone, then click RECONNECT. When it reconnects it will ask for permission to access your text messages.“
Will try later when 3 is back home.
Also, after you do this, remember it will only show new texts. So your existing ones will not appear. Send yourself a test text and it should appear on your tesla’s display. Best of luck.