Or 7. It shares the button with 8.
It's not a new feature (assuming your car has always had electronic frunk release functionality).
Thanks for posting this question! It happened to me also, right after that update, and it was so baffling, and rather disconcerting.
Wiping prints really isn't necessary, even if they can see which buttons you pressed there are still hundreds of possible combinations they would have to cycle through and try. But the car will lock out long before they can do that. You only get about 7 attempts before a lockout. They would have to spends hours at it.
That particular update was partial fulfillment of a promise made by Ford regarding the job 1 2021's lack of a remote frunk release. With the update, you can now release the frunk hood by using your door code followed by 7-8. You should see the frunk release show up in FordPass soon as well — that takes a bit of time for the servers to catch up. A future sync update will add the frunk release button to the sync screen (near where the trunk release button is now).
At a certain point when you are plugging in a door code it has to cross your mine that opening it and pulling it twice may be faster? The one in the car on the sync screen would be handy the door pad not so much. Does the update give you the screen tap or just the app/door?
There was an extensive write up here after a failure of the actuator for the frunk hood, it did not sound like fun. That was on a job 1 car that got the old version of the update (6.7). I’ve used the handle ever since. On the other hand, I haven’t seen @Jimrpa posting about a failure now that his frunk hood is fully operational.
Once my frunk release was enabled, I’ve never had any problems with either the release not working or (more disturbingly) only partly releasing the frunk, leaving it in an un-openable/uncloseable state.
