How do I enabled scheduled charging without sharing location with app?

[LaunchGreen]

I don’t want to share my precise location with the mobile app. It’s strange to have a tracker on me 24/7 that all drivers (son, etc) can see.

The question is: how can I enable scheduled charging without sharing the location with the app? Prime time rates here are nearly 10x as high.

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[godfodder0901]

I don’t want to share my precise location with the mobile app. It’s strange to have a tracker on me 24/7 that all drivers (son, etc) can see.

The question is: how can I enable scheduled charging without sharing the location with the app? Prime time rates here are nearly 10x as high.

Sharing location in the app doesn't give other drivers access to your phone location. The location they see is of the vehicle.

 

[tbinmd]

just schedule the charging schedule in the R1, it doesn’t need the app. The truck knows where its at and its not doing it via the app.

 

[DeafPug]

As mentioned, the app wants your location so it can place your location on the map. It does not control anything with other drivers of your vehicle to see the location of your vehicle. The vehicle has its own GPS and normally shares the current location with all drivers on the vehicle.

You can keep the vehicle from showing your location to other drivers if you set that option. It might be on the vehicle, but it is on the app. Go to the Location section of the app and toggle this option off. For this to work, each person would need to have their own account with Arivian and be invited as a ln additional driver on your vehicle.

 

[LaunchGreen]

Sharing location in the app doesn't give other drivers access to your phone location. The location they see is of the vehicle.

right. I don’t want them to see the location of the vehicle

 

[LaunchGreen]

just schedule the charging schedule in the R1, it doesn’t need the app. The truck knows where its at and its not doing it via the app.

How? Schedule tab is disabled without location sharing on

 

[tbinmd]

How? Schedule tab is disabled without location sharing on

In the truck, schedule it there.

 

[LaunchGreen]

In the truck, schedule it there.

ya, you’re not listening. it’s disabled

 

[LaunchGreen]

It seems like the “best” solution is to enable sharing and then disable location sharing with other users.

why the truck needs to share its location with the mobile app to allow local scheduling in the truck is beyond me. My assumption is that it’s a dev being lazy.

 

[SwampNut]

I’ve worked in tech for over 40 years. I’m still amazed by how often people manage to misunderstand everything so completely.

 

[HaveBlue]

Probably the schedule charging only applies at home. If the car doesn't know where it is, it can't start charging at home unless you bought a proper evse which has scheduling built in to it.

 

[Captain JB]

As mentioned, the app wants your location so it can place your location on the map. It does not control anything with other drivers of your vehicle to see the location of your vehicle. The vehicle has its own GPS and normally shares the current location with all drivers on the vehicle.

You can keep the vehicle from showing your location to other drivers if you set that option. It might be on the vehicle, but it is on the app. Go to the Location section of the app and toggle this option off. For this to work, each person would need to have their own account with Arivian and be invited as a ln additional driver on your vehicle.

Howdy, am I reading the prompt wrong?? It looks like of you want to hide location on the app, you must select the hide location prompt to ON…not off? Or am I confused? Another wards, if you put the hide location selection ON, it will hide the location?? Thanks for your help JB

 

[JM.]

You know the family will still know where you've been by the glitter and smell of $2 strawberry body spray right?

 

[LaunchGreen]

I’ve worked in tech for over 40 years. I’m still amazed by how often people manage to misunderstand everything so completely.

It didn’t need app sharing turned on two months ago. The truck most certainly should not need to share its location with the app for charging schedule.

Software engineer by trade and now CEO of a 300 person tech company btw.

 

[Kaiju]

The short answer is you can't. For whatever reason Rivian completely removed the ability to do it the dumb way by just setting a time from the vehicle charging screen, unless you keep location data enabled. It doesn't matter if it's tied to a location or not. Also, regardless of being able to disable other app users from seeing your vehicle location, it doesn't stop Rivian or even necessarily the cellular provider from sharing it with any number of third parties they have agreements with. Even if you've read the terms of all those said agreements and are cool with that, it also assumes none of those who touch your data are like T-Mobile, verizon or AT&T that have been making settlements in court to do with lawsuits concerning selling real-time phone location data without user's consent.

You'll also find you can't turn it on, set up a charging time or location and then turn it off again. It will remain disabled despite the vehicle knowing both the time and its location.

As of the latest update you'll also find that your navigation doesn't work if you don't have location data sharing enabled either. Not that the internet-based features like traffic alerts don't work, it is completely disabled. All you get is a screen telling you to turn location sharing back on.

I've personally yet to discover what this means in an area without cell service. If scheduled charging and the GPS mysteriously works without being able to phone home, why exactly would location data sharing be required?

There are lots of people who are oblivious to or simply don't care about that stuff, but it's bizzarre for a company that prides itself on its security to give the finger to people who care about their privacy with changes that come months or years after becoming customers.

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