No OTA updates in months!

[rugedraw]

You'll have to expand on what you mean by 'the EF strategy' and 'NS in the F188 location'. You've lost me there.

I wonder if some of those old updates have been queued for a while, but blocked by the overall pause in updates. I work in IT and see similar things happening - you see some old updates that a system has been missing for some time, but then they get superseded by newer ones - and as soon as the latest is installed, the long list of old updates gets refreshed to a much shorter one as many of the old ones are no longer required. I wonder if some of these may disappear shortly?

Anything different showing today?

Looks the same today.

I'll do my best to explain what I THINK this is because I have no inside info to know if my theory is correct or not. I THINK Ford made some APIM patch to address the camera issue that can get installed at any point in time regardless of what software the APIM is on. Because the APIM is reliant on the GWM (sometimes the IPC) and TCU to be updated for more updates to be released for it, I think this Sync 25259 version is just a patch for the camera recall.

F188 is the DID where the strategy file goes in the modules. EF is very old. As newer files get loaded onto the APIM, the strategy changes. The farther up the alphabet the letters in the strategy are, the newer it is. So, NS is much newer than EF. Sync 25259 means it was released by Ford on the 259th day of 2025. Vehicles that are truly up to date will be on Sync 25211 which is the NS strategy, so it makes no sense that Sync 25259 is on older firmware than Sync 25211.

All theoretical, but it would explain why you still show APIM updates pending.

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[Mikey_B]

I think this may be a band-aid update Ford is pushing out to address the rear camera recall. Something similar happened on the F150 forum recently. Vehicle was skipped over a bunch of Sync version and ended up on Sync 25255, but then more updates were applied which took the Sync version back down to an older version.

In the case of @Mikey_B, his APIM is currently on the EF strategy which is old. OTA dashboard shows he still has a bunch of old OTA's in queue including more APIM updates. Sync 25211 shows NS in the F188 location.

No matter what, updates are still a good thing. However, don't be surprised if a future update brings your Sync down to an older version before it goes back up. I have seen this happen to a few 2021 F150s, so looks like it will be more of the same here.

I don't think this will happen to any other Mach E's other than 2021 and maybe job 2 2022's. Hard to say exactly.

Scratch that. It is possible that 2023's shipped on 2022 Sync versions and it could also happen to those.

Well, whaddaya know…. Another update installed yesterday. In Software Updates, it now shows that PowerUp 4.2.4 was installed on 30th March. The Sync version remains at 25255_PRODUCT revision 2094, so I get to keep my button for the parking cameras at the top of the screen, and the ability to use the volume knob to adjust the temperature. I hope those stay, both very useful!

Are you able to see what the update queue and OTA history looks like now? VIN is WF0TR3SS9NMA00694

 

[4sallypat]

I just got an update after 6 months of crickets:

Not very helpful as I don't use Sirius XM.

 

[rugedraw]

Well, whaddaya know…. Another update installed yesterday. In Software Updates, it now shows that PowerUp 4.2.4 was installed on 30th March. The Sync version remains at 25255_PRODUCT revision 2094, so I get to keep my button for the parking cameras at the top of the screen, and the ability to use the volume knob to adjust the temperature. I hope those stay, both very useful!

Are you able to see what the update queue and OTA history looks like now? VIN is WF0TR3SS9NMA00694

OTA 4.2.4 is for the TCU so that won't change the Sync version. Only an APIM update will do that. 4.2.4 has not cleared from the list, but you now show 5.1.1 for the GWM as qualified. After that comes an APIM update.

 

[Mikey_B]

And the updates keep rolling in, had 5.1.1 delivered and installed this morning. That’s three OTAs in about as many weeks now, after so many months of nothing.

At this rate, I’ll have caught up with the newest models in a couple of months and have BlueCruise ready for longer journeys in the summer….

Rugedraw, if you have a moment, any chance you can see what the system says for my car now? VIN is a couple of posts up the thread. Only when you have a moment - no rush as I guess it needs some time to update centrally too.

 

[rugedraw]

And the updates keep rolling in, had 5.1.1 delivered and installed this morning. That’s three OTAs in about as many weeks now, after so many months of nothing.

At this rate, I’ll have caught up with the newest models in a couple of months and have BlueCruise ready for longer journeys in the summer….

Rugedraw, if you have a moment, any chance you can see what the system says for my car now? VIN is a couple of posts up the thread. Only when you have a moment - no rush as I guess it needs some time to update centrally too.

Seems like Ford is down. I get 404 errors when I try to do anything.

 

[Mikey_B]

Seems like Ford is down. I get 404 errors when I try to do anything.

Oh damn, that’s a shame. Hopefully they sort it out soon!

 

[Ark29]

After losing all my hopes and months of complaining, I got my first OTA since I bought the car several months ago.
Sync is now on 25255 Revision 2094 from 23095 Revision 807 with the shortcut buttons on top and the central knob controlling the AC functions. No BlueCruise as of now. Maybe on the way.

 

[devmach-e]

Having a weird problem with IPC-25-7.46 on my 2022 Premium. For the past 5 or 6 months, I periodically get a message that the update is ready to install, but it never completes for some reason. I even had Ford Mobile Service take a look at it when they came out to my house to install the 12V/door recall back in November 2025. The service technician at that time claimed that it would take 5 or 6 hours to complete, so he wasn't able to do it.

However, here's the twist, at some point the install actually worked because as of a month or so ago the speedometer is now centered when I have all the ADAS stuff turned off. I did get 10.2.0 a while ago (6 months ago).

I am, of course, concerned that this (no longer) pending update is interfering with other OTAs that are in the pipeline.

 

[Pibe38]

I have 2022 Premium (3FMTK3R73NMA19277) and have been on 10.2 since August of last year, no updates since.

Car received what I think was 3 updates back to back. It happened so fast between short drives I was not able to catch the update notes (I usually take screenshots of the app).

The last update showing is DSMC-24.5.7, Priority Update Driver Facing Camera.

 

[Maquis]

I have 2022 Premium (3FMTK3R73NMA19277) and have been on 10.2 since August of last year, no updates since.

Car received what I think was 3 updates back to back. It happened so fast between short drives I was not able to catch the update notes (I usually take screenshots of the app).

The last update showing is DSMC-24.5.7, Priority Update Driver Facing Camera.

You can see all the updates your car received in the last 90 days on the Ford website.

 

[rugedraw]

I have 2022 Premium (3FMTK3R73NMA19277) and have been on 10.2 since August of last year, no updates since.

Car received what I think was 3 updates back to back. It happened so fast between short drives I was not able to catch the update notes (I usually take screenshots of the app).

The last update showing is DSMC-24.5.7, Priority Update Driver Facing Camera.

These are the updates you got. You show an APIM updates as "qualified" so that one will be next, but no way of knowing when they will actually send it.

 

[Mikey_B]

Is the Ford site up again? If you have a moment, could you possibly see if mine is reporting any new updates as Qualified? VIN is WF0TR3SS9NMA00694.

 

[rugedraw]

Is the Ford site up again? If you have a moment, could you possibly see if mine is reporting any new updates as Qualified? VIN is

Yea, you show GWM update 24-PU0102-SVD-FX as qualified.

 

[devmach-e]

Can you check this VIN: 3FMTK3R75NMA02321

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