Software update wishlist

[Roadrunner]

Wishlist:
1. Spotify premium back.
2. Option to swipe left for full map screen as it is to swipe right for full traffic screen.
3. Watch and save Dashcam and Sentry Mode clips directly from your ANDROID phone, as of IOS.
4. Free autopark, as of other cars.
5. ACC on abonnement.
6. Acceleration farts

 

[KRS1983]

Precondition Battery Prompts

People often drive to charging stations in cold weather forgetting to precondition which doubles their charging times. Tesla should prompt folks with a "Precondition Battery for Charging?" prompt if the car battery is low AND a person appears to be heading to their usual charging station. This is a driver behavioral pattern the vehicle is more than capable of sensing.

 

[Roadrunner]

Precondition Battery Prompts

People often drive to charging stations in cold weather forgetting to precondition which doubles their charging times. Tesla should prompt folks with a "Precondition Battery for Charging?" prompt if the car battery is low AND a person appears to be heading to their usual charging station. This is a driver behavioral pattern the vehicle is more than capable of sensing.

On its way as of SW 2025.2 https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/version/2025.2/release-notes

 

[K.I.T.T.]

Air recirculation shortcut and improved AUTO operation
Seems so obvious. Why do we alhave all sorts of shortcuts but not air recirculation?
The air quality detection isn't always immediate, so manual intervention is required.

 

[Roadrunner]

Air recirculation shortcut and improved AUTO operation
Seems so obvious. Why do we alhave all sorts of shortcuts but not air recirculation?
The air quality detection isn't always immediate, so manual intervention is required.

Just press right Bottom and say "recirculation" - can't get much easier.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

Just press right Bottom and say "recirculation" - can't get much easier.

If that was supposed to be funny, you failed miserably. It just comes out as dumb.

Why then having first-level shortcuts for mirrors? Seat heating? Apps opening? You could use voice for all of them.

Doesn't make sense as a solution. First, voice commands are meant to be aids, second they don't always work, there are all sorts of ridiculous jokes and satirical videos about them, and the best thing is that they are actually true. I almost stopped relying on them when I asked to raise the volume and it went instantly up to 100%, I ended up using them for mirror folding only, before getting the Knob. Also you might be on a phone call or in the middle of a conversation. So, again, why having first-level shortcuts for all sorts of bullshit, even games, and not recirculation, like any other car?

 

[RNHurt]

On its way as of SW 2025.2 https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/version/2025.2/release-notes

Oh, you changed it to 2025.2. I originally thought you were making a statement that this type of feature wouldn't be out until 2525.

 

[Roadrunner]

If that was supposed to be funny, you failed miserably. It just comes out as dumb.

Why then having first-level shortcuts for mirrors? Seat heating? Apps opening? You could use voice for all of them.

Doesn't make sense as a solution. First, voice commands are meant to be aids, second they don't always work, there are all sorts of ridiculous jokes and satirical videos about them, and the best thing is that they are actually true. I almost stopped relying on them when I asked to raise the volume and it went instantly up to 100%, I ended up using them for mirror folding only, before getting the Knob. Also you might be on a phone call or in the middle of a conversation. So, again, why having first-level shortcuts for all sorts of bullshit, even games, and not recirculation, like any other car?

?? the following commands work in my Y, all listed in user manual

"Activate/deactivate the heating in the driver's seat"
"Enable recirculation"
"Fold side mirrors in/out"
"Open [Toybox/browser/cinema/phone]"

 

[Roadrunner]

Oh, you changed it to 2025.2. I originally thought you were making a statement that this type of feature wouldn't be out until 2525.

Sorry for mistyping.

 

[RNHurt]

?? the following commands work in my Y, all listed in user manual

"Activate/deactivate the heating in the driver's seat"
"Enable recirculation"
"Fold side mirrors in/out"
"Open [Toybox/browser/cinema/phone]"

I actually just used "Turn on rear defroster" the other day. It was freezing cold out side and I had just got in the car and was navigating a tight parking lot and didn't have a lot of time or attention to spare. The voice command worked wonderfully and helped me out quite a bit.

To be honest, a physically button would also have worked, but I really don't want to go back to having to push different buttons all over the dashboard for each function. Especially functions that I only use a couple of times a year.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

?? the following commands work in my Y, all listed in user manual

"Activate/deactivate the heating in the driver's seat"
"Enable recirculation"
"Fold side mirrors in/out"
"Open [Toybox/browser/cinema/phone]"

Re-read. I listed a few random functions that are available as 1-st level dashboard shortcuts on our Teslas and simply tried to make you reason that their presence is of equal importance as air recirculation, even just for a parallel with a standard car dashboard. Which makes your comment about voice commands pointless.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

To be honest, a physically button would also have worked, but I really don't want to go back to having to push different buttons all over the dashboard for each function. Especially functions that I only use a couple of times a year.

This is the point. Air recirculation isn't a feature you activate a couple of times a year, such as a defroster. Albeit a defroster is more of a security feature than anything, so good having it redundant all over the place.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

Highland startup
Hard to tell if this is a bugfixing or a "new" feature... fixing a bug. No, hell no, this is a bugfix.

I just wrote "I think Commander could fix something that drivers me crazy about the Highland." to Enhance.

Pre-highland, I would press the brake, buckle up, set the D/R gear and the car would start, just waiting for the accelerator pedal to be pressed to get going.

Now, things got mad. I press the brake, buckle up and... guess what? I must to depress the brake, press it again so that the car can set the gear (D/R based on whatever flawed logic Tesla set, but that's nothing Enhance can fix). It's like a stubborn engineer got distracted by an overzealous lawyer, or viceversa for adjectives.

Once brake is pressed and driver buckles up, why not the hell just set D/R, according to the aforementioned flawed logic, whatever that is? Why does it have to be just the brake pedal to be the trigger and not either the brake pedal OR the buckle, provided that both must be simultaneously engaged?

These are the things that drive me mad, when they can have cars driving by themselves, fly to Mars, but they can't just get such simple use cases straight.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

Reserve trunk opening on comeback
I just realized that UWB trunk/frunk opening is nice but... not so nice.
It would be more effective if we could "reserve" that the trunk/frunk open when the mobile is again connected to the car ("on comeback").
This could be done either:
- via voice command "hey X, open the trunk when I'm back"
- with a tap on the app, considering we all tap on the aircon button some time before we get to the car, to find it already at temperature, whatever is the outside temperature (right?)

Similar to what Enhance offer with their Presenting Trunk feature on door press, which is basically the same as the above, only requiring a physical interaction before leaving the car.

But otherwise, UWB trunk/frunk opening would be eclipsed by this, both for ease of use and safety, and because... you don't need UWB for this.