Hidden BYD Infotainment Trick: Control Climate with Three Fingers

I'm so gonna try it out tomorrow!

This feature came last summer with an update - it even works when you have Android Auto or Apple Carplay running on the screen so it's super useful! 👍🏻

Yep works on al of them. Best “trick” is your radio misbehaving, pressing the volume roller will reboot the system and fix about 97% of the problems.

It's not hidden... It's in the manual. 🙄

First thing the salesman showed me when I test drove a dolphin.

yup yup. Discovered it by accident as well. Neat

Yup same here

As soon as you ask about climate control and the hassle of the touch screen this is always their answer.

Same thing with my Atto 3.

Same here in México, then after I got the car I realized this was pretty much the only trick the sales guy knew about the car haha

duh.

Brilliant, I didn't know, than you

Am I the only one that thinks the temperature controls are upside down? When I swipe up I expect the temperature to go up... but it goes down! Almost the perfect solution to no physical buttons. Just wish I could switch it around.

Yes, I agree — I actually get the direction wrong every time 🤣

Me too! I just can't seem to get it to stick in my head

So did I.

How very 2024 of you!

Yes they are upside down.

It's actually always been there

When you swipe up on your mobile, does your page go upwards, towards to the top of page?

i think there is like 6 ways to control the climate if not mistaken , maybe i'll do a post about it later

Hate this, it is very frustrating when you are watching YouTube because thier gesture is overlapped.

Sams

Old news

Even hidden, you can tap and hold the temperature number at the bottom to adjust it like slider

Hi, here is another one, and yes before everyone dives in i read the manual end to end before I got the car, but a) it's so badly written and b) i am old and forget stuff so...  On atto2 press the weirdy button on steering wheel by you right thumb, it pops up various screens you can scroll through with left and right track select buttons, one is temperature and fan control, but the one that surprised me is you can change the driving display from simple to classic, classic gives you a speedometer and power output/ input rotary dials, I like it.  Give it a try if you don't know it there. On this note, the UI is a mess no? This right hand button seems to do much the same as the other one on the left hand side of the wheel, it feels like the UI was put together by loads of different teams and then just dumped on the car.  Still love it tho. Just checked in the manual, apparently the button is called "10 Instrument cluster/Back" and this is the description  Instrument cluster/Back ● When the instrument cluster is not in the menu mode, press Instrument cluster/Back to show the instrument cluster menu. ● When the instrument cluster is in menu mode, press this button to return to the upper-level screen, or to exit the menu if there is no upper-level screen. ● When on the Bluetooth call screen, press this button to end the call. Makes perfect sense now eh?

The point is, the temperature control and fan speed do the opposite to each other. That’s what causes the confusion.

Real answer right here! I read the manuals of the final 3 short listed cars before making a purchase.

This is a very common feature. Almost everybody knows it. But recently I findout you can brifly touch and then drag side to side the tempreature value In the bottom fixed bar, it will change the tempreature

Agreed

Thanks ChatGPT

This came with last year's update, when I got mine in 2024 it did not have these feature lol

WTF... Why is such a thing no where documented?

2025 version of the manual, yes. 2023 version, no. As of writing this, the BYD Australia website still has the 2023 version of the manual for the seal, possibly because the right hand drive version of the manual doesn't exist yet.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) there's a joke in here somewhere

Every update of the car's software, also installs the e-manual for that version. I've only ever read the e-manual in the car. 🤷‍♂️ That 3-finger feature was only introduced about a year ago.

Ahh yep, I forgot about the e-manual. By contrast, I've only read the PDF manuals.

was it an update? I don't think it was in my manual

You can also briefly press the icon at the bottom and slide left or right on both icons.

Ah yes, I tried it today — really nice, even the UI showing red toward warm and blue toward cold. I hadn’t thought of it because I was afraid of moving the buttons down there by pressing and holding.

An update. Works on my 2023 atto, but wasnt an or8ginal feature

Oh damn where do you find this?

When I scroll up on the volume, the volume goes up. When I push up on the cruise control speed, the speed goes up. But yes you're right, when I use a different device to do something unrelated, it acts differently. Thanks for your contribution.

just imagine it as a roller, when u swipe down the roller spins downward revealing the hidden numbers on top

FINALLY GETTING OURS BEFORE END OF JAN! Yaaaaaayyyyy!!!!

just think of it as, “how strong do I want the air conditioning to function” , I guess…

I wish we could turn the fan off when swipe left with three fingers, it actually makes sense to have that

Maybe start thinking you're swiping down towards the fires of Hell?