Triple App Screen on v9!

[mbhforum]

Not taking credit, as that goes to Brenda Boritzki from the FB Tesla Owners group:

It seems that’s the browser doesn’t work though when I try it on bottom. It also lost its settings when backing out of my garage after camera popped up. YMMV.

 

[SpudLime]

Well that’s interesting.

 

[KyleDay]

Now that is a good find. Bonus points for sharing in a short easy video too.

 

[ckoval7]

How do people even think of trying to do stuff like that? It never would have crossed my mind to drag up from the app button, let alone drag two apps at once.

 

[garrett5688]

And if you use your foot, you can drag up a 4th app too.

 

[Tam]

...its settings...

It's still a consolation prize because with this very tricky setting, it still does not allow the showing of any of these 2 at the same time:

camera, browser, energy, calendar, phone...

Such as Camera on top half and TeslaWinds.com on bottom half:

The triple app demo shows that the old way of dual app reconfigurability is technically achievable.

Please continue to e-mail to Tesla to make the positions of the apps at least as flexible as prior to V9.

 

[bahree]

Not taking credit, as that goes to Brenda Boritzki from the FB Tesla Owners group:

It seems that’s the browser doesn’t work though when I try it on bottom. It also lost its settings when backing out of my garage after camera popped up. YMMV.

Its cool but I'd say seems like a bug.

 

[thecloud]

How do people even think of trying to do stuff like that? It never would have crossed my mind to drag up from the app button, let alone drag two apps at once.

The current UI trend is to be minimal. Often that also means functionality is not user-discoverable, which is unfortunate. Buttons that don't look like buttons but might do something if you pull on them in one particular direction are particularly bad. Only yesterday, after reading someone's post about the feature, did I discover you could swipe the Navigate box to the right and it would auto-select your work or home address. That just seemed like a box you would tap to initiate navigation, but hidden functionality lurked unnoticed.

 

[Patrick W]

How do people even think of trying to do stuff like that? It never would have crossed my mind to drag up from the app button, let alone drag two apps at once.

I don't know how they discovered it but I found it by trying to adjust things on the touchscreen while driving and it just sort of "happened".

 

[whitex]

Sadly, the 2 of the 3 apps for this have to be nav and music, and camera is still on the bottom.

 

[bbattles]

in v9, is there any way at all to hide the Nav App and fill the screen with say just the music app? What an annoying regression from v8 if this is in fact not possible.

 

[KyleDay]

in v9, is there any way at all to hide the Nav App and fill the screen with say just the music app? What an annoying regression from v8 if this is in fact not possible.

No

 

[Fellsteruk]

The current UI trend is to be minimal. Often that also means functionality is not user-discoverable, which is unfortunate. Buttons that don't look like buttons but might do something if you pull on them in one particular direction are particularly bad. Only yesterday, after reading someone's post about the feature, did I discover you could swipe the Navigate box to the right and it would auto-select your work or home address. That just seemed like a box you would tap to initiate navigation, but hidden functionality lurked unnoticed.

Yeah I found that myself this week nifty

 

[GlmnAlyAirCar]

That just seemed like a box you would tap to initiate navigation, but hidden functionality lurked unnoticed.

That was documented in the release notes. Been there for years, possibly since I got my car (v6.2) back in 2015. I use it every day.

 

[Fellsteruk]

I never saw them, only just got my MX last month but had Tesla provided an online source of release notes I may have know about it but sadly you have to guess.

In all fairness it could be in the manual, I never read the nav section as it’s intuitive not to need to read a guide.

 

[jlarmstr]

Clearly this arrangement was an oversight/bug, I suspect it will be 'fixed' in a quick turn release. I don't think the UI designer had this layout in mind when designing the interface. I wish they would return to the 2-panel/2-App interface, there was nothing wrong with it and this current implementation makes it overall less configurable.

 

[GlmnAlyAirCar]

there was nothing wrong with it

Other than the fact that the most common operations took way to many taps to access. The interface is way more streamlined and usable while driving.

 

[kavyboy]

Other than the fact that the most common operations took way to many taps to access. The interface is way more streamlined and usable while driving.

But now you have to go through the "launcher" to get to what used to be right there onscreen, and then the same number of taps as before. Overall, more taps, right?

 

[jlarmstr]

Other than the fact that the most common operations took way to many taps to access. The interface is way more streamlined and usable while driving.

I totally disagree..

Toggling climate on/off took 1 tap, now turning off takes two
Putting camera up use to take 1 tap, now takes two or a swipe (yeah that doesn't feel awkward)\
Switching to any app only took one tap, now you need to fumble through a pop up menu.

This UI is much more busy in terms of usage

 

[jlarmstr]

in v9, is there any way at all to hide the Nav App and fill the screen with say just the music app? What an annoying regression from v8 if this is in fact not possible.

Yeah, if someone has found a way to hide the nav app, please for the love of God and country, post it here!