Tesla Model 3/Y Tips & Tricks: 30 Hidden Features!

Yeah, oh, what's up? I've had my Tesla Model 3 for two and a half years and along the way I've learned some

tips

and

tricks

that I want to share with you in this video. This is my ultimate list of Tesla

tips

. and

tricks

for

model

3 and

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and many thanks to bright for sponsoring today's video. Now let's start with a couple of websites that you should know and that are useful on your

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touch screen. We all know that some video streaming apps like youtube and Netflix are already built into the Tesla touchscreen, but if you want to stream a wider variety of video streaming apps like espn disney plus and your own plex server, go ahead and add To bookmark this site as a better theatre.com, this will allow you to stream from these sites in full screen mode, of course you must be parked for this to work, but it gives you many more options than just the built-in full screen apps.

Tesla has another site you should bookmark:

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waze.azurewebsites.net, which is a bit of a mouthful, I'll leave the link in the description below, but this is an interesting site that replicates the best

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of the Waze navigation app. those that Tesla's built-in navigation system lacks, such as alerts for road closures, police and other dangers. It also has a setting. which shows you the weather and radar in case you are traveling and want to be as prepared as possible to avoid range anxiety and getting a speeding ticket, so if you have the option of full self-driving or the enhanced autopilot option, you can do a Secret Auto Parking Some people know about auto parking for parallel parking, but this auto parking allows you to park the car by itself without you being in the seat, so the way to enable it is by pressing the park button twice in a row.

The menu will appear and allow you to automatically park forward or reverse, so this is good if you want the car to automatically return to a garage that has a very tight space, allows you to exit the vehicle and then it will automatically reverse or go forward on its own only without you being in the car now if you have two driver profiles linked to two different phones for your car, for example my wife and I both drive my model 3 fine if we are together. I usually drive, but sometimes the tesla defaults to its phone, causing the seat and steering wheel to shift into their positions instead of mine.

To solve this problem, you can set a priority device so that if the tesla recognizes both phones, it will prioritize one over the other now, since Tesla lacks the typical blind spot lights in the side mirrors, if I am about to change lane or merging, I like to tap the camera icon to reveal the rearview camera, as Tesla recently lets you swipe up to reveal both blind spot cameras. Plus, this helps me see if someone is in my blind spot right before I change lanes. I hope Tesla releases a future software update that automatically displays these blind spot cameras when the turn signal is initiated, so let's make that happen please.

Now, if you really want to lock your Tesla and maximize security as much as possible, first enable the new multi-factor authentication by choosing account in your Tesla account online, then use a free two-factor authentication app to scan your barcode and now each Every time you log into your Tesla account, it will ask you for a unique code that will be sent to your phone. You can also add a layer of security to your Tesla by enabling the PIN to Drive feature, which will prompt you for a PIN that you set at any time. someone wants to drive it now this keyless driving feature is something I didn't really know about until recently this is a useful thing in certain situations let's say you're on vacation and you leave your tesla at home and you forgot to put it in your garage this allows you to take your Tesla app and under the control section you press the start button and that gives someone two minutes to get in the car and drive it, so if a storm is coming you can ask your neighbor to start your Tesla. in your garage while you're on the other side of the world, a cool feature.

If you like to use Google Maps to find a destination on your phone before getting into your Tesla, you can share the destination with your Tesla by pressing the Share button. on your phone and then select the tesla app icon and it will automatically send the destination to your tesla navigation system and it will be ready for you when you get in the car which is great not many people know how to properly cancel the turn signal to cancel a turn signal instead of pushing it in the opposite direction, just tap it once in the same direction and this will help you avoid the annoying situation of pointing left and then trying to cancel it by pointing right, but that really makes You signal right and then turn it left and now you will be in an endless cycle of doom, just tap it once in the same direction to cancel the turn signal.

Now it may seem obvious to some of you, but not everyone knows that they can open their cargo. port by pressing the button on the moving connector cable, this also works the same way with supercharger cables. Now, in your car's safety settings, you can enable the horn to save dash cam clips so that if something bad happens while driving, you can quickly honk the horn and it will save the footage to your dash cam unit. in case you need it for legal or insurance reasons to activate autopilot. We all know to double tap the right stick, but not everyone knows that there are several ways to disable autopilot. you can press the brake, turn the steering wheel hard enough or my personal favorite, just touch the right stock to deactivate the autopilot and shift into reverse when you are driving or vice versa, you don't have to press the brake as long as you go five miles per hour or less so you can easily shift between reverse and reverse, which is helpful when making a three-point turn or entering and exiting parking spaces now if you're wondering how Tesla works You can change gears instantly while still in motion.

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Plus, the first 200 people will get 20 off their annual premium membership, so click the link below to get started today. Autopilot automatically detects the speed limit zone you are in. By default, if you enable autopilot, it will set your speed to that speed limit, but you can actually go into your settings and set it to relative plus whatever miles per hour you want, which means autopilot will automatically set the speed plus that compensation on speed. limit, so for example, if I'm doing a 65 and I have my settings set to plus 5 relative, every time I enable autopilot, it will set the speed to 70, which is five miles over the speed limit.

Additionally, when you have Autopilot engaged, you can tap the speed limit icon on the touchscreen to set Autopilot to that speed or whatever offset you've set in your settings. This is very helpful if you're the type of person who always goes five miles over whatever the speed limit is if you don't. If you don't like the volume of chimes and alerts while driving, you can enable Joe Mode and it will make the audible alerts a little quieter in case you have a sleeping baby or a scared kitten in the car after you've gotten in a destination in In the navigation app, you can tap the navigation title to quickly zoom in or out to the full route or return to the condensed view.

This is useful if you want to quickly see the completed steps and then go back turn by turn. aerial view style, we all know that you can press the right scroll wheel down to enable the voice command function. You could tell the tesla to do something right last year they revised it and added more sophisticated voice commands so instead of trying to do it. something on this touch screen while driving, see first if the voice command works. You might be surprised at some of the things you can do using voice command, for example you can tell it to drive to the nearest supercharger.

Turn on the seat heaters. You can tell it to set the temperature, you can tell it to open the glove box and even things like open the web browser, if you didn't already know, you can insert a USB drive into the console area and your Tesla will record clips from its external cameras acting as A security surveillance system for your Tesla, but if you want to do it the right way, get the Jada USB hub that allows you to hide your flash drive behind a magnetic cover so that no one can easily unplug or steal it.

In case your Tesla is broken into, if you are parking on a steep hill, press and hold the park button on the right stock for two seconds to enable the emergency parking brake, a parking brake indicator will appear on your screen and brake will be set to fix problems with the touch screen or other strange glitches, such as lack of cellular connectivity, you can try resetting the touch screen by pressing and holding both scroll buttons at the same time for about five seconds. It will take approximately one minute to arrive. make a backup, but you can continue driving the car while the touch screen resets.

Now there are some ways to use swipe gestures on the touch screen, which is sometimes more convenient than tapping, for example, you can swipe down or right on the navigation button to navigate quickly. to any address you have saved for work and home so if you are at home and swipe it it will navigate to work and vice versa also to delete previous destinations just swipe right on the address to remove it from the list if you swipe upwards. In the app switcher, the last app that was opened will appear. Swiping also works on the music icon, so you can swipe to quickly move it up or down.

You can also press and hold the fan icon and move your finger left or right. to easily adjust the temperature and the same with the volume to increase or decrease the volume level. Another useful way to minimize the music app is to tap the album art to quickly move the music player up or down instead of tapping the music icon or swiping when to enable climate control and want to turn it off, You need to press the fan and then press the power button, which is a bit cumbersome. A better way is to simply press and hold the fan icon for a few seconds to turn the climate control on or off. which is much easier than tapping if you're driving, plus if you enable the defroster or defroster while the climate control is off, once you're done, if you press the button again it will leave the climate control on, which It's annoying, so you can simply long press the fan icon when you're done defrosting or defogging to turn everything off and save you from having to tap multiple times and to help you maximize the efficiency of your range if you don't need the climate control on.

Now that the battery's rated range is always displayed next to the battery icon, but for a more accurate estimate of your projected range, open the Power app, tap Average Range, and select 30 miles to see your average range in based on your last 30 miles. This helps you ensure you have enough range. To get to your destination, especially in winter, you probably already know that the right scroll wheel can adjust the set speed when you are incruise control or autopilot, a notch will make an increment of one mile per hour and then a quick scroll on the The scroll wheel will make increments of five miles per hour;

However, when you are in cruise control or autopilot and you manually accelerate up to a certain speed, you can do a quick scroll up with the right scroll wheel and instead of increasing five miles per hour, you will actually set the speed to your crew at whatever speed you are at when you do the fast shift, if the autopilot doesn't detect your hand on the wheel, it will eventually alert you to move the wheel to make sure you are still paying attention, but instead Instead of pushing the steering wheel, you can also toggle or press any of the scroll wheel buttons to quickly dismiss the Autopilot alert as a safety measure if you open the driver's door when the car is running but going at zero miles per minute. time, it will automatically start.

Park to avoid accidental acceleration or shifting. Now it's a little scary trying to activate the wipers from the touchscreen when it's downpour. An easier way is to press the wiper button on the left stick to bring up the wiper icon on the touchscreen, and then tap the wiper button on the touchscreen. Now what I would love to see in a future software update is the ability to double press the wiper button on the left side to enable the low speed wipers or triple press the wiper button to enable the wipers. at high speed, this would save us from having to worry about looking at the touchscreen during a downpour to prevent Autopilot from warning us about grabbing the steering wheel.

Try to configure the steering wheel and seat position in such a way that you can comfortably. Rest each of your elbows on each side and rest your hand on the bottom left or right of the steering wheel to satisfy the autopilot and at the same time be the most comfortable, if you have a low ceiling in your garage, you can adjust the height of the model. hatch to prevent it from hitting the roof, first open the hatch, then manually raise or lower it to the desired height, then press and hold the hatch button until you hear a chime and now it will always open at that height so you can summarize my tips and Tesla tricks for the Model 3 and Model Y.

Did I miss something? Did I leave something out that you know? Let me know in the comments section below. Be sure to subscribe if you want to see more Tesla and technology videos in the future and hit the like button if you enjoy this video. My name is Andy. Thanks for watching and I'll talk to you next.