Hands-free trunk opening is coming

Curious to see how it actually works. I worry it'll open when I don't want it to.

I think this is already out. I have it on my Model 3

Is that the old model y?

I’ve got the hands free frunk on my Cybertruck; works great! Starts beeping if I stand in front of it and will beep 3 times then open. I like this so as not to trigger false alarms.

💯 correct. I turned it off it is shit. Won’t open when you want it to, always opens when you don’t. 2026 Juniper.

Isn’t this already live? You have to stand *really* close for it to work.

Had this on my last car and honestly I kinda didn’t like it… It’s really not hard to hit the button when you want the trunk to open and it would often activate when I didn’t want it to.  Having the hatch open when you are back they’re just trying to charge is going to get super annoying.

Huh? Why would you turn it off? It requires you to be within 7 feet of the trunk button and it gives you several warning beeps before it opens. I’ve literally never had it opened accidentally even one time. The only time I find that it almost opens is when I’m washing my car.

Nope.

It’s live for the new cars with upgraded Bluetooth, I assume this one will be location based and not the same tech so hopefully it’s better.

Imagine parking your tesla backed into a garage where you have shelves of costco supplies and garage freezer. It gets annoying when the trunk keeps trying to open.

It's already on our Y and has been for a while

If I have a 2021 Y should I already have this?

Hopefully this news is an improvement to it so it works like my model x driver's door auto open. I have a toggle that disables it at home. Otherwise yeah the damn thing would open the door constantly while in the garage.

iPhones can setup a Siri shortcut to use a voice command to open the trunk/frunk/chargeport.

No. The refresh has it already. Not sure if this will roll out to all cars tho or if it’s just an upgraded version of what’s already available.

I parked at this building with a wall behind my car. I passed by the rear to run through the charging cable. It opened automatically pinning me against the wall. I have it off since then.

Yup it uses UWB. I changed my phone and my new one doesnt have UWB. So it doesnt work for me now.

If I stand I my garage near the door the trunk opens. Yes I know you can disable it at home, but then what’s the point? At the grocery store, it never wants to open when I want it to with my phone in my back pocket. I need to do some weird twirling dance at the back of the car work hands full of groceries to get it to open.

Stand behind your car, it makes a sound letting you know it’s going to open, it opens. In testing, it works as intended. I’ve never actually used it in the real world. I’d say it’d work great if your hands are full.

I tried it and it never stay connected long enough to open the hatch. It beeps a few times and stops. I usually have to take out the phone and keep the screen active for it to open the hatch. Might was well open the app.

Old

You have an option to exclude it while you are home

This is not new, been out for a while. It works great as in, Ive used it 2 times on purpose and it did exactly what I wanted it to do (open the trunk when my hands are full). It's never gone off on accident for me.

I have highland with this feature. It always wants to open when I just pass the trunk. It’s too sensitive.

They could easily implement the foot waving thingy using the rear camera. The current implementation is a hit or miss.

Ew.

This feature is rolling out now…free for 30 days, then just $6.99 per month. Get it before price increases!

There’s a scrape on the lip of my Model Y’s rear hatch from when I opened in in a parking deck. The long rear hatch is a rust to the car, on a way that the similarly long rear latch on the Sienna I once owed is not.  It’s because of how far forward the hinge-point on the Model Y is.  Thin feature in a bad idea for any Y that goes into a garage of any kind ever. I won’t be using an automatic trunk opener on the Model Y unless they retrofit a bunch of sensors to detect obstructions. P.S. Tesla is leaving maney on the table by not offering lots of retrofit kits and feature enhancement kits for the Model Y.

I turned off the feature to open the trunk when you stand there

How does this work?

Walk up to the rear hatch with your phone, wait for a second or 2, car will start making a beeping sound and flash the amber light for a couple seconds, then the hatch will start to open. If you don't want it to open, step away from the hatch before it starts to open. It's ok for when your hands are full, but it sometimes feels like a long time when you're standing waiting for it to open. You can also specify location to disable it like at your house. I've never had an unintended open, but I've had to step away when it started the beeping sequence and I had a bike on a hitch rack.

Doesn't work very well on my Juniper. You have to stand really close. I'm almost humping the rear of the car before I start hearing the beeps lol. And I have to back away quickly so the hood doesn't hit my face on the way up

Coming? Has it not been there a while? Requiring a phone with UWB

You don't need an automatic opener to manage to hit the roof. Trust me.

It's nice if your hands are full. Combine with a hand reading camera with AI guessing the weight.

+1

Yes, my issue is that it takes too long when I'm standing there with my hands full.

Found a page on it: https://tesla-info.com/siri-and-ios-shortcuts.php

The Model Y needs an ultrasonic sensor on the trunk lid, even with the manual setup. Or they could shape the rear of the car and the 5th door like my old Sienna that did not have this problem.

Why does it say “it’s coming”? Isn’t it already there?

Strange considering it isn’t automatic. It gives several beeps before it opens and takes a good 5-10 seconds or so.

For like a year or so.

I use this method all the time. Hasn’t failed yet

For what it’s worth, I hate this feature on my 3 😂. Never works when you actually need it to.

It takes a few seconds. But a fatass like me has to wobble sideways with one hand holding the charger gun.

I used to have an Acura RDX that had auto open/close and it would always try and kill me when I heard the beep while grabbing groceries out of the trunk. Now I will hear the chime to someone getting into the MYP and I always do a double take like it's happening again lol. But yeah it never worked right. The highlight (and what caused me to get rid of it) was the service guy during a routine check up saying it was easy and him trying for 20 mins to get it open to no avail.

Oh you are hilarious. It never opens when you don't want it to except when you're washing your car? Is that what you said? Lol

Yeah. Do you have a point to make?

If flicks the hazard lights and if you move it’ll cancel the operation, pretty impressive and well done tbh.

I would much rather an under bumper foot sensor like some cars have where you can wave your foot under to open and close. Phone only consistently doesn't open when my hands are full and tries to reopen while I bend down to pick things up if I had to put them down to hit close manually.

Its horrible I turned it off immediately. If you are close to a wall or garage door it will open overnight.

About a decade later for this basic feature