New Ford Power-Up 3.5.4

[Gullwingdmc]

You frunk people crack me up.

I want my E-Heat button! ?

There’s already an e-heat button. There’s no frunk button! ?

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[acosmichippo]

That's not the point. You asked why there are three Auto settings. You want it blasting, I don't. There is your answer.

relax, i wasn’t trying to invalidate your opinion. just having a conversation.

 

[ChasingCoral]

I just got 3.5.3 today and have the AC button now. So when AC is off does that mean heat is on? Or just fan?

When the AC button is off the AC is off.

 

[ChasingCoral]

So what does Advanced Dual Phone actually do?

 

[Roger tobin]

I just drove home from dinner at my father in-law's house. No check mark. But the car refused to select my profile, or any profile other than Guest. I guess that is the new feature. Not what I was hoping for. ?

 

[Roger tobin]

For the past week (since getting 3.5.3.3) I've also been experiencing the intermittent "Guest profile" problem. Sometimes I can reselect my own profile, but sometimes not. Sometimes if I let the car sit for a while, it will find my profile when I start it again. No discernable rhyme or reason yet. . . (also have been getting the 12 volt warning quite often, but the car never stores a DTC . . . )

Thoughts are welcome.

 

[macchiaz-o]

So what does Advanced Dual Phone actually do?

Someone else will need to verify that this works, but based on Ford's description, it will allow the car to remain connected to up to TWO Bluetooth phones instead of just one at a time.

So either connected phone can receive a phone call through the car's speaker, or show a text message on the SYNC display, etc.

Only one can be connected at a time for music or handle voice assistant requests (Siri, Google).

See description in second image of this post:

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/power-up-3-2-1-sync-update.20347/

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

You frunk people crack me up.

I want my E-Heat button! ?

I live in Hawaii. Cold is 72F/22C. What’s this heat you speak of?

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

So what does Advanced Dual Phone actually do?

Twice as much as advanced single phone? ?‍

 

[Guss-E 2021]

AC has been on my main screen since at least 3.5.2 (maybe earlier?).

I find the MME's climate controls really confusing and awkward. I don't know why AC gets a place on the main screen while e-heat is only on the climate screen. E-heat almost always seems to be on by default, even when it's like 80 degrees outside. I'm not even sure why it's not just called "heat"? I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't understand the "Front" heading at the top of the climate screen. Is there a separate screen that I haven't found for "Rear"? I don't understand why "Auto" (on the main screen) cycles through three settings, but will not cycle to "off" even though "off" is possible. The seat heater has three heat settings and even has the traditional three little "lights" below the seat icon, but pressing it produces a clumsy slider rather than just cycling through the settings. The temperature adjuster also gives you a slider, but it seems way harder to use compared to just tapping the + or - buttons a few times. Touchscreen sliders seem pretty awkward for these applications. Anyway, I'm sure there's logic behind all of these but I don't find them intuitive at all. As the "gadget guy" in our house, it's pretty embarrassing trying to make sense of these for my wife.

I agree with you 100%. The climate controls are a shit show in this car. Overly and unnecessarily complicated. So much so I have to adjust before I start driving. Learning to live with it. Maybe Ford will hire a UI guru and eventually revamp the whole thing.

Oh, can we adjust the climate by voice? I've never tried.

 

[Guss-E 2021]

There’s already an e-heat button. There’s no frunk button! ?

Wait, so the Frunk release under access (which is the first screen I get when I tap the vehicle icon in the top left) is not doing it for folks?

Are they asking for a button on the home screen or fixed icon at the bottom of the display?

 

[A-A-Ron]

Ford, please put the kibosh on the marketing people writing the release notes, this is getting silly. Have the engineers write them. Release notes are not meant to be a form of advertising. They need to say what the particular update actually does, not what the previous update did or what the next update might do in the future. Spend some time looking at Rivian or Tesla release notes for comparison.

Careful what you wish form. Typical engineering release notes: "Bug fixes and enhancements"

 

[mkhuffman]

For the past week (since getting 3.5.3.3) I've also been experiencing the intermittent "Guest profile" problem. Sometimes I can reselect my own profile, but sometimes not. Sometimes if I let the car sit for a while, it will find my profile when I start it again. No discernable rhyme or reason yet. . . (also have been getting the 12 volt warning quite often, but the car never stores a DTC . . . )

Thoughts are welcome.

I noticed this after 3.5.3.3 also. Will continue to monitor this week since maybe they fixed it with 3.5.4.

 

[Tampamike]

Climate control setting:
”Auto,” medium
Set to 74 degrees.
Change to low or high auto as desired.
Stop typing, whingin’, etc.
Wash and wax the car again because that’s your happy place.

 

[RVAtom]

Oh, can we adjust the climate by voice? I've never tried.

I tried a few times but I could not figure out a syntax they were looking for.

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