Rivian Introduces Apple Watch App

As expected, electrical conveyance shaper Rivian contiguous introduced an Apple Watch app, providing R1S and R1T drivers with convenient features connected their wrist.


The app lets you take up to 4 one-tap controls for locking oregon unlocking doors, opening oregon closing the windows, opening the beforehand oregon rear trunks, sounding the vehicle's alarm, and more. In addition, you tin crook the Apple Watch's Digital Crown to set the vehicle's compartment somesthesia and artillery charging people successful the app.

Rivian volition besides connection an Apple Watch complication, allowing you to presumption the vehicle's complaint level astatine a glimpse connected your ticker face.

Rivian precocious rolled retired Apple Wallet car cardinal support for its second-generation R1S and R1T vehicles. This diagnostic utilizes Ultra Wideband technology, allowing you to simply attack the vehicle, unfastened the door, and commencement the vehicle, each with your iPhone successful your pouch oregon container oregon your Apple Watch connected your wrist.


Passive introduction functionality requires an iPhone 11 oregon newer (excluding iPhone SE and iPhone 16e models) oregon an Apple Watch Series 6 oregon newer.

If you person a first-generation R1S oregon R1T model, integer cardinal functionality is simply a spot much limited. You tin fastener oregon unlock the conveyance with a pat of the "lock" fastener successful the app. "With the app open, you're acceptable to drive," says Rivian, for these models.

While immoderate reports person indicated that the Apple Watch app is already rolling out, TechCrunch said that it volition not beryllium disposable until adjacent week. In immoderate case, support an oculus connected the App Store for an update to the Rivian app connected the iPhone, arsenic installing the upcoming mentation volition automatically widen the app to the Apple Watch.
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