New lock/unlock icons

[Jodys18]

Ok… who also hates the new lock/unlock icons? I feel like it’s now confusing and a waste of space…

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[Sevn86]

I personally don’t mind them. Honestly, I’m okay with either way.

 

[doit82]

agree, it is the same on tesla now. I prefer a toggle which makes it obvious what the current state is vs what the button does when i push it. feel like i am always guessing to remember which one it means.

 

[MrTopher]

My question is, we can't open the doors unless the truck is in park, so other than when we sit too long in Drive the car will unlock, but otherwise what's the purpose.

 

[VSG]

I prefer a toggle which makes it obvious what the current state is vs what the button does when i push it. feel like i am always guessing to remember which one it means.

The problem, and the reason they introduced the new button, is that the door locks are NOT two-state*, so a simple toggle doesn't and can't indicate the current state of the locks.

*You may not have noticed this. There is a setting for which doors unlock - whether it's just the driver's door or whether it's all doors. If you have this setting set to only the driver's door, then the old icons would show "unlocked" when just the driver's door was actually unlocked. You would have to press the "unlocked" icon in order to completely unlock the truck. So just showing locked/unlocked on one button didn't indicate whether all the doors were locked/unlocked, and when the button showed "unlocked" it didn't behave properly because you expect that pressing it would lock everything, but instead it unlocked everything *more*.

That said, I also think this change made it a little cluttered, and I look forward to the next revision where I think they will hit the sweet spot of accurately representing the state as well as compactly giving you a way to change the state.

 

[Riviot]

My question is, we can't open the doors unless the truck is in park, so other than when we sit too long in Drive the car will unlock, but otherwise what's the purpose.

You can open the doors in drive, you just have to keep weight in the driver seat. It's for your passengers.

 

[Dark-Fx]

My question is, we can't open the doors unless the truck is in park, so other than when we sit too long in Drive the car will unlock, but otherwise what's the purpose.

If you have your vehicle configured to only unlock the driver door, you have to display both buttons to be able to lock or unlock without having to double press. When it's a touch screen where you press the button to perform the action, the state is going to change but you can't see it until moving. Most people probably don't have their Rivian set up this way but you can.

It's also possible to manually open any door and a passenger to get out, and the door will stay unlocked, so same problem there.

 

[Apatel323]

I prefer the new icons and hopefully they do this in the app as well. Before the update, I wasn’t sure if it was locked or unlocked.

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