Apple Shortcuts have simply grow to be a bit extra helpful to Tesla house owners.
Within the newest model (4.24.0) of its cell app for iOS, Tesla rolled out assist for Apple Shortcuts. A fast reminiscence refresher: Shortcuts is a free app that comes with the iPhone and iPad, permitting you to arrange time-saving settings for numerous actions (and even roll up a number of actions into one shortcut). You possibly can entry them with a faucet or by speaking to Siri, Apple’s digital assistant.
Now, if you open Shortcuts, you will see a listing of choices you may arrange on your Tesla. These shortcuts embody the power to lock and unlock your car, begin preconditioning the automobile, allow or disable Sentry and Canine mode, open and shut the charging port, boot, and bonnet, and extra.
When you arrange a shortcut, you may simply go away it there and entry it by speaking to Siri, or you may add it to the Dwelling Display screen (amongst different choices) for simpler entry.
Since Shortcuts helps you to chain a number of actions into one, you may create extra complicated instructions on your automobile. For instance, I’ve arrange a shortcut that locks my Tesla, closes all home windows, and permits Sentry mode, all with one faucet. And if you wish to take this a step additional, you need to use the Shortcuts app to create Automations, which let you run shortcuts when sure circumstances are met, corresponding to if you arrive at a sure location or at a particular time of day.
To get this performance, replace your Tesla app on iOS to the newest model.