Weekend Distraction - Apple Music on Tesla Revisited

February 03, 2020 by Nathaniel Avery in Weekend Distraction

Earlier I wrote about my experience using the Apple Music beta website using the Tesla Model 3 browser. The website loaded, but there were problems. Login attempts failed with an error. But even worse, music wouldn’t play. I tried again with the browser on the new v10 Tesla software. The https://beta.apple.music.com website worked much better post v10 upgrade. Unfortunately, Tesla owners will have to wait a little longer for a complete solution as there are still problems.

Weekend Distraction - Tesla Enhanced Summon

September 30, 2019 by Nathaniel Avery in Weekend Distraction

I tried out the enhanced summon feature of the Tesla this weekend. The feature was delivered as part of the massive version 10 software upgrade. I was pleasantly surprised by how well it works at this early stage. It’s clearly in beta, and it operates like a beta. It’s slow. It won’t cross a named street. It may be impractical to use in a number of real world situations. But why dwell on the negatives when we have the start of something that’s super cool?!

Weekend Distraction - Use Apple Music on Tesla Model 3

September 15, 2019 by Nathaniel Avery in Tip, Weekend Distraction

Many Tesla owners have expressed a desire to use Apple’s Music service in their cars. The preferred way to do this for most owners would be to use Apple Car Play. Car Play could be really amazing given the large amount of screen real estate to work with in Tesla vehicles. Ideally, it could be positioned in such a way that it doesn’t interfere with other screen activities. Unfortunately, we don’t have an officially supported method of Car Play. Recently, Tesla owners were given hope of access to at least the music portion of the Apple service via the newly released Apple Music Web App. It saddens me to report, however, that the Apple Music web app doesn’t work with the current browser version.