Tesla’s iPhone app will get higher digital automotive key help with extremely wideband

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 automotive know precisely the place the bottom line is, which additionally helps defend in opposition to replay spoofing assaults.

The article says this even comes all the way down to figuring out which person is on the driving force’s aspect of the automotive within the occasion that two individuals who have cellphone keys for the automotive are entering into it. It’s the identical kind of precision monitoring that allows you to precisely find Apple’s AirTags even when the factor they’re connected to is misplaced within the cushions of your sofa.

The change isn’t obtainable for Android customers but, however some latest Pixel and Galaxy telephones embody UWB chips, so help might come to them ultimately.

After downloading the replace, customers ought to 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 underneath Settings > Privateness & Safety > Close by Interactions.

Based on Not a Tesla App, solely the most recent Mannequin 3 and 2023 Mannequin X help the characteristic, 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.