Man I love mine but I do have a lot of complaints. Like a bunch of things that just don’t make any sense, like the doors unlock when you walk up but don’t lock when you walk away? You also can’t lock the doors using the door buttons if you want to lock and walk away, so fucking annoying. There’s a lot of small things, but it charges so fast and it’s so nice inside.
Walk up to your car. Doors unlock. Open door and hit the lock button. Nothing with happen. The door lock buttons on the inside do absolutely nothing unless the key is inside of the car. It’s insanity. Like, what if I realize I didn’t lock my car and I’m outside without my keys. I have to go back into the house, get the keys, then come out and lock the car. You can’t just open the fucking die and hit the lock buttons. It’s fucking stupid.
They immediately unlock again. Or the button does nothing. I forget exactly. Basically, it’s impossible to lock the key in the car. I imagine that’s the logic.
As far as not locking when you walk away from the car, I have no idea. There is a 3rd party device to fix that though. I installed mine in about 20min, and I was being very carefully methodical with every step. It’s easy.
But you can still close the tailgate just fine with your keys in the truck. And guess what, the car will just unlock itself. So clearly they already have a solution.
So many contradictions in this damn car.
Also, doesn’t that device cause other issues? I’ve thought about getting it but didn’t like the compromises. Don’t remember what they were though.
Never had any problems, been working perfectly. Close all the doors, walk away with the key, 10sec later the doors lock. Unlocks again as you’d expect.
Sorry I was really tired when I responded to that. I thought you were a different person responding to a different comment. I went to ioniq guy’s site and it looks like the issue I was thinking of was this:
Installing the device causes minor driver’s seat movement before starting the car with the ‘easy access’ feature enabled. Start the car within 5 seconds or disable ‘easy access’ to avoid this. You can view the behavior in a video
which isn’t that big of a deal. idk why I remembered something bigger. I should have ordered this a long time ago.
That’s ridiculous! Mine doesn’t do that with either the fob or digital key. Once I lock it I need to walk a ways away before a proximity unlock. I have a 2026. If you yeet the keys away and use the door lock I assume it stays locked?
I wish that all car manufacturers would start using UWB technology with their keys. It lets the car detect the physical location of the key, accurate to within 10 centimeters (4 inches).
This allows for very accurate automatic lock and unlock, and is essentially completely immune to relay and replay attacks. Even if the car receives an unlock signal, it won’t actually unlock unless the key is also physically close to the car.
It also lets you use your phone as a key with the same automatic lock and unlock features, as long as it supports UWB, like the Pixel Pro, Galaxy Plus and Ultra series, and iPhones excluding the SE.
Pretty sure the Ioniq does use uwb. You can use your phone to unlock in other countries. Idk why it doesn’t work here. And with the keyfob backup it does know where the key was.
I’d like to see all cars use UWB though, even low-end ICE ones. Some people want a new car but can only afford low-end models, and they should be able to get the same security and key functionality as on higher-end models.
Those paddle shifters are so annoying! You want to accelerate slowly to drive your grandma around? You better hope she likes stiff braking! What’s that, you want sporty responsive acceleration? Better combine it with an anemic brake response! Who tf came up with this?
No complaints about the adaptive cruise control and lane centering, though. Best I’ve ever used.
I bought one last year and it’s been a delight.
I have many complaints about it and they’re all incredibly petty.
Man I love mine but I do have a lot of complaints. Like a bunch of things that just don’t make any sense, like the doors unlock when you walk up but don’t lock when you walk away? You also can’t lock the doors using the door buttons if you want to lock and walk away, so fucking annoying. There’s a lot of small things, but it charges so fast and it’s so nice inside.
What do you mean you can’t lock using the door buttons and walk away? What happens?
Walk up to your car. Doors unlock. Open door and hit the lock button. Nothing with happen. The door lock buttons on the inside do absolutely nothing unless the key is inside of the car. It’s insanity. Like, what if I realize I didn’t lock my car and I’m outside without my keys. I have to go back into the house, get the keys, then come out and lock the car. You can’t just open the fucking die and hit the lock buttons. It’s fucking stupid.
They immediately unlock again. Or the button does nothing. I forget exactly. Basically, it’s impossible to lock the key in the car. I imagine that’s the logic.
As far as not locking when you walk away from the car, I have no idea. There is a 3rd party device to fix that though. I installed mine in about 20min, and I was being very carefully methodical with every step. It’s easy.
But you can still close the tailgate just fine with your keys in the truck. And guess what, the car will just unlock itself. So clearly they already have a solution.
So many contradictions in this damn car.
Also, doesn’t that device cause other issues? I’ve thought about getting it but didn’t like the compromises. Don’t remember what they were though.
I installed it in mine. What other issues? I have a 2025 N-Line and it’s been fine.
Never had any problems, been working perfectly. Close all the doors, walk away with the key, 10sec later the doors lock. Unlocks again as you’d expect.
What year and what country? USA versions are missing a ton of features from other countries.
I’m in the US. 2025
Was referring to the 3rd party doorlocker.
Or do you mean it messes with features other countries have, that we don’t?
Sorry I was really tired when I responded to that. I thought you were a different person responding to a different comment. I went to ioniq guy’s site and it looks like the issue I was thinking of was this:
which isn’t that big of a deal. idk why I remembered something bigger. I should have ordered this a long time ago.
That’s ridiculous! Mine doesn’t do that with either the fob or digital key. Once I lock it I need to walk a ways away before a proximity unlock. I have a 2026. If you yeet the keys away and use the door lock I assume it stays locked?
I’d bitch at the dealership if mine did that!
I wish that all car manufacturers would start using UWB technology with their keys. It lets the car detect the physical location of the key, accurate to within 10 centimeters (4 inches).
This allows for very accurate automatic lock and unlock, and is essentially completely immune to relay and replay attacks. Even if the car receives an unlock signal, it won’t actually unlock unless the key is also physically close to the car.
It also lets you use your phone as a key with the same automatic lock and unlock features, as long as it supports UWB, like the Pixel Pro, Galaxy Plus and Ultra series, and iPhones excluding the SE.
Pretty sure the Ioniq does use uwb. You can use your phone to unlock in other countries. Idk why it doesn’t work here. And with the keyfob backup it does know where the key was.
Huh, I didn’t know that.
I’d like to see all cars use UWB though, even low-end ICE ones. Some people want a new car but can only afford low-end models, and they should be able to get the same security and key functionality as on higher-end models.
Or just bring back metal keys and drop the insta steal bullshit.
I have an EV6.
Those paddle shifters are so annoying! You want to accelerate slowly to drive your grandma around? You better hope she likes stiff braking! What’s that, you want sporty responsive acceleration? Better combine it with an anemic brake response! Who tf came up with this?
No complaints about the adaptive cruise control and lane centering, though. Best I’ve ever used.