Tesla’s replace will begin rolling out subsequent week and can lastly deliver Apple Watch help to the Tesla app, together with native telephone key entry. Meaning you’ll be able to depart your smartphone behind to run errands or rapidly pop your trunk to seize one thing after working exterior with out realizing you don’t have your telephone or pockets on you (I’ve executed this too many occasions with my Mannequin 3 than I care to confess.)

The native Apple Watch expertise allows you to view the cost standing, pop the frunk, and remotely heat up your automobile. Third-party smartwatch apps corresponding to “Look ahead to Tesla” added this performance within the absence of a first-party answer, however now Tesla has Sherlocked all of them.

One other huge new function is the flexibility to view Dashcam and Sentry Mode recordings out of your telephone and save clips to your gadget to share crash footage with insurance coverage or regulation enforcement rapidly.

It wouldn’t be a vacation replace with out the return of Tesla’s gentle present that syncs the lights, sounds, and extra between various autos. Tesla made two new exhibits this yr and can be giving Cybertrucks a brand new Santa mode that turns the onscreen 3D Cybertruck right into a Tesla Bot driving in a cyber sleigh. If Santa isn’t your factor you can even now add wraps and customized plates to your onscreen Cybertruck. The truck can be getting Arcade video games within the rear seat display screen and a bigger onscreen rear digicam feed with pinch-to-zoom help.

A pair different huge options embody bringing Mannequin S and X’s auto-shift function to stalk-free Mannequin 3 autos that makes an attempt to guess whenever you wish to shift between drive and reverse. It’s an answer to an issue the automaker shoved onto clients as an obvious cost-cutting measure that’s by some means not formally a security concern.

Tesla does stability that out with a brand new and useful security replace. There’s now a rear cross-traffic alert function that offers drivers an audible warning and a pink bar on their rearview digicam feed if it detects vehicles or pedestrians coming from behind whereas in reverse. Music also can now scale back quantity robotically when in reverse, a function that has lengthy been obtainable from different automakers.

The replace additionally allows you to set “arrival vitality at vacation spot,” which suggests you’ll be able to inform the Tesla how a lot battery cost you need on the finish of the journey. That’s helpful if you recognize you’ll be able to’t cost at your vacation spot and have to have reserve vitality whenever you’re prepared to your subsequent drive.

Lastly, there’s the flexibility to seek for locations in your route with detour time estimates, climate and precipitation indicators on the map to your vacation spot, a brand new Sirius XM app (for Mannequin 3, Y, Cybertruck), TuneIn app enhancements, in-vehicle upkeep summaries, the flexibility to regulate unoccupied passenger seats from the display screen, door deal with pull alert notifications, and a brand new social gathering sport referred to as Boomerang Fu amongst different options. Oh, and the fart app can now go off as quickly as somebody sits down on a seat. Whoopie!