The Tesla app now helps extremely wideband (UWB) within the 2024.2.3 model of the app for iPhones. Noticed by Not a Tesla App, it guarantees extra dependable and safe use of telephones as digital keys than Bluetooth does as a result of UWB’s precision monitoring lets the automobile know precisely the place the secret’s, which additionally helps defend in opposition to replay spoofing assaults.
The article says this even comes right down to figuring out which person is on the driving force’s aspect of the automobile within the occasion that two individuals who have telephone keys for the automobile are stepping into it. It’s the identical sort of precision monitoring that permits you to precisely find Apple’s AirTags even when the factor they’re hooked up to is misplaced within the cushions of your sofa.
The change isn’t accessible for Android customers but, however some latest Pixel and Galaxy telephones embody UWB chips, so assist might come to them finally.
After downloading the replace, customers must be prompted to “Improve Your Cellphone Key,” adopted by a request to present the app entry to Close by Interactions, an iOS setting that opens up the iPhone’s U1 chip to the app. That may be discovered beneath Settings > Privateness & Safety > Close by Interactions.
In response to Not a Tesla App, solely the latest Mannequin 3 and 2023 Mannequin X assist the function, whereas the newer Mannequin X and S and Cybertruck ought to get it down the road. All iPhones from the 11 onward include UWB, excluding SE fashions.