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hey what's up guys I'm Cathy HD here and this is Apollo and there's going to be a video about the brand new Tesla mobile app so I talked about in one of the previous videos that we'd be expecting a major overhaul to the app pretty soon and we finally got it so in fact it was actually going to be one of the questions I answered in the Q&A video but I scrapped it that was yesterday when I was recording that and we didn't really have the app yet it was just kind of leaked a little bit we had some screenshots now a couple of hours later the app is live and it's beautiful so both iOS and Android got this refresh at pretty much the exact same time which is pretty rare as far as apps go but yeah we'll go ahead and open it first thing to notice right away is the icon is new it's no longer that ski amorphic 3d look it's a lot flatter now the splash screen is a lot flatter and then immediately we get a representation of the car at the top like everything about the car is accurate the lights whether they're on or off the wheels I do have the winter wheels on now but when I put the summers back on when it gets warm it'll be pretty accurate and the paint color and you can see the door is open so let's go ahead and close the door of the car and it closes in the app too and then everything else on the app all the controls you have are exactly the same in fact there's pretty much no functionality added it still does all the same stuff to the car with the car it's basically just a fresh coat of paint so at the top you have the car is named as status how many miles I left on the battery and we have three little quick controls here one to turn on the fan for the climate control and the car will immediately start heating up or cooling down to for a keyless start if you don't have the fob with you and three to unlock the car and that would go ahead and unlock the handle as you can see it pops out right there and then below that are a bunch of the more detailed controls that used to be separated out into the tabs at the bottom so for the climate control if you turn that on oh hey Sam now you'll immediately be able to change the temperature inside the car to whatever temperature you want obviously it's 66 now so going up to 73 requires heat and you can see the little animation turn red now again there's no new functionality so it's not like you get like the seat heating now you don't get a steering wheel heating now or at the defrost thing none of that is added and I feel like maybe there's some new plugs in the API in this app that will let that be added in the future but as of right now it's still all the same functions as a last one just a little faster whom the controls here you get all the same things that you had in the last app so you can vent the roof again lock or unlock the car flash the headlights if you want honk the horn it's really loud and they can start up the car right there and you can put it in valet mode from the app charging is pretty simple it just tells you what your charging status is if you're charging it'll update you on how fast you're going and you can open the charge port if you want and set charging limit and of course the summon feature still does all the same things it did before connects to your vehicle and lets you have it pull up out of a driveway out of a tight space into a tight space whatever you wanted to do the car will start moving when it detects it has the room so obviously there's no one in the car but as you can see it's doing its thing I'm just going to have to trust that it yeah it sees me cool wait hold up wait a second good job so that's really pretty much it it's a fresh coat of paint you get all the information about the car it's all accurate it's much cleaner now but again there's no new functionality it does all the exact same things that you saw in the first video so if you're curious about what it does and what it looks like in action that video is still accurate the one thing that did add which is new on both Android and iOS is fingerprint recognition so you now have touch ID on whoops reflective touch ID on iPhones and just fingerprint recognition on my Android but everything else was the same the referral code is the same your vehicle information is the same it's just much better looking but for those wondering the car itself has been awesome and these last couple weeks you remember the last video I did about the Tesla was because it was having issues this is to update you on the fact that it's in perfect sense then so great on that too anyway that's pretty much it thanks for watching this quick video hope you enjoyed and I'll see you guys the next one