Update 2024.44.25.2 - Release Notes

Tesla for Apple Watch allows you to pair your watch as a key and unlock and lock your vehicle without ever pressing a button - just like phone key. You can also see the state of your vehicle's battery with a watch face complication and perform actions such as opening the frunk or trunk.

Watch and save Dashcam and Sentry Mode clips directly from your phone. First, ensure the View Camera via Mobile App setting on the touchscreen is enabled (Controls > Safety). Then, on your mobile app, go to Security > Dashcam Viewer. Clips are end-to-end encrypted and can't be accessed by Tesla.

This feature requires iOS mobile app version 4.39.5 or higher, and Premium Connectivity.

SiriusXM offers an extensive and personalized audio experience. Get access to all your favorites—from ad-free music, talk and news to sports, comedy, and other exclusives in your vehicle and on your phone. Tap the SiriusXM icon from the App Launcher to start your free trial.

Requires Premium Connectivity or a Wi-Fi connection.

To assist with reversing out of a parking spot, parallel parking, multipoint turns, and similar driving maneuvers, Auto Shift (Beta) can now also shift between Drive and Reverse, in addition to shifting out of Park.

Auto Shift (Beta) assists you with shifting without using the touchscreen based on your surroundings. Go to Controls > Dynamics > Auto Shift (Beta).

This feature is designed to enhance your driving experience and may only be available in certain circumstances. Drivers must remain attentive at all times.

You can now set a preferred battery charge level for when you arrive at your destination—higher if you’d like more charge, or lower if you prefer a faster arrival. Trip Planner will adjust your route accordingly, adding or modifying recommended charging stops and durations.

In your vehicle’s turn-by-turn list, choose Set Arrival Energy for your final destination.

While navigating, when you search for a location (like coffee shops, fast food, or other stops), the results are now filtered to show options along your route. Each result also includes an estimated detour time.

While navigating, your car will display the destination’s weather in the weather popup and notify you of any significant weather differences between your current location and final destination.

Requires Premium Connectivity.

You can now view precipitation in your area directly on your vehicle's map. Addtionally, while navigating, you can see the destination's weather in the weather popup. You will also be updated on any significant differences between your current location and final destination.

Requires Premium Connectivity.

When you shift into Reverse, your vehicle will alert you if it detects a pedestrian or vehicle crossing behind you by highlighting the corresponding side of the rear-view camera feed in red.

Explore the all-new TuneIn Radio on Tesla — still completely free with no setup needed. Start enjoying over 100,000 music, sports, news & talk radio stations, along with 3 million podcasts, audiobooks, and more. TuneIn now features a redesigned personalized interface per driver profile, improved support for sports and podcasts, and richer station profiles.

Requires Premium Connectivity or a Wi-Fi connection.

Time to celebrate with the latest Light Shows to the tune of Cyber Symphony by Lionel Yu and Ready for Assault by Evgeny Bardyuzha. You can play the show instantly or schedule it up to 10 minutes in advance, either on a single vehicle or synced with friends.

Light Show enthusiasts can control interior lighting, add display color effects, and create longer custom shows. To play a custom show, save the show files in a "LightShow" folder on your flash drive, connect, and select.

Start the show from your mobile app (version 4.39.5+ required) or go App Launcher > Toybox > Light Show on your vehicle's touchscreen.

- Interact with the rear Theater from the front screen while driving to edit playlists or pause videos. (2021+ Model S, 2021+ Model X, Cybertruck, 2024 Model 3 only)

- Use the media card to play and pause any active video content playing through the browser or Theater.

- Start a video in the web browser before your drive to enjoy your favorite content as audio on the road.

Slice and dice your friends with boomerangs in this frantic physics party game. Join a crew of your favorite foods as you grill, chill and spill your enemies. Discover ridiculous power-ups and stack them together in deadly combinations. To play, shift into Park, and go to App Launcher > Arcade > Boomerang Fu.

The new Seats control panel allows you to adjust the position of the unoccupied passenger seat, including second-row seats. (where available).

Go to Controls > Seats.

This feature provides a record of when common maintenance actions were last performed and recommends when to perform them next. Maintenance records persist on the vehicle through factory resets, providing a record of previously performed maintenance actions for current and future owners. Go to Controls > Service > Maintenance.

- Experience Rainbow Road inside the cabin with accent lighting. Go to App Launcher > Toybox > Rainbow Road. (2024 Model 3 and Cybertruck only)

- Vampire Survivors has been updated to "Ode to Castlevania", adding new quality of life features and performance improvements. (AMD Ryzen only)

- Tap “Nearby Parking” on any point-of-interest page to get directions to nearby parking and start your journey with ease. (All Models)

- Navigation will now dynamically route around road closures and display them along an affected route when they are detected by the fleet. (All Models)

- If someone attempts to open the door or trunk while Sentry Mode is active, you’ll receive a notification on your mobile app. (All models except Legacy Model S & X)

- Steam (Beta) has been updated to SteamOS 3.6, bringing performance enhancements and improved game compatibility. (2021+ Model S & Model X)

- When reviewing Dashcam clips in your vehicle, the video player will skip directly to the recorded event. (All Models)

- The Energy app's Consumption page has been updated to let you view your energy usage over the last 200 miles. (Model 3 & Model Y)

- The Energy app now features a new Consumption page where you can visualize your energy usage over the last 200 miles. It also displays your projected range based on your average consumption and remaining battery. (2021+ Model S, 2021+ Model X and Cybertruck)

- When navigating to a Supercharger, upon arrival you will be notified on the touchscreen of any stalls that are currently out of service. (All models except Legacy Model S & X)

- With Autosteer active, a new telltale will indicate which lanes are available for Automatic Lane Change. (Europe only)

- While reversing, your music volume can automatically lower to help you focus on parking. Go to Controls > Safety > Lower Volume in Reverse. (All Models)

- Minor fixes and performance enhancements have been applied. (All Models)

Intel users are seeing performance improvements while using the Tesla interface, especially in more demanding areas like Tesla Theater. Videos on YouTube now stutter less and Tesla Theater can be minimized much more smoothly than before.

The media controls can now control YouTube videos and other video content on websites as well.

With the addition of the Seats menu to settings, Tesla has now rearranged the menu options so that the more used options are now more easily accessible.

The Software menu has been moved up, while other options like Navigation and Trips have been moved down to be close to WiFi, Bluetooth and Upgrades.

The currently selected custom lock sound is now shown underneath the Lock Confirmation Sound option in the Controls > Locks menu.

The Rainbow Road and Santa Mode easter eggs have been updated on vehicles that include the ambient lighting feature.

There are new options in these easter eggs that let you enable or disable the ambient lighting while the easter egg is active.

If enabled, the light strips will cycle through colors of the rainbow when the Rainbow Road easter egg is enabled. For Santa Mode, the interior lights will cycle between red, green and white.

The Consumption tab has been updated with several changes, including:

- The last 200 miles are shown, instead of a user-selectable, 5, 15 or 30 miles.

- Instant Range / Average Range has been removed to simplify the interfact

- Average range as moved to the top left and now shows the offset from the vehicle's EPA rated Wh/mi

- Total energy consumption is now displayed at the bottom left

When navigating to a destination, the alternative routes menu that is displayed when you first enter a destination, will now show you which routes include tolls by displaying a dollar sign icon next to the travel time.

The Exlicit Content toggle under Audio Settings now applies to YouTube Music as well. This now support LiveOne, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and TIDAL.

Tesla has redesigned the charging pins that appear on the map. Supercharger and third-party chargers pins are now an oval shape instead of circular.

Instead of just having the number of charging stalls available, Tesla has add the charging icon, to make it more obvious these are charging stations.

You can now adjust the Dashcam Viewer's playback speed. Users can pick from 0.5x, 1x or 2x playback speeds by tapping the playback speed button.

Tapping the tire pressure indicator will now open the tire pressure card on the left side of the screen instead of opening the Service menu under Controls > Service.

When you're using Tesla Theater or the web browser in full screen, you can now access the vehicle's app dock and climate menu without leaving the full screen experience.

To display the app dock, tap the black bar at the top of the screen. The vehice's dock will be shown, letting you jump into any app, but you can also adjust the seat heaters or open the full climate menu without leaving the full screen mode.

If you use Tesla's voice commands to send someone a text, the vehicle will now ask you to press the scroll wheel before you're able to dictate a message.

Previously, the vehicle would start listening for a message as soon as a sender was selected.