Newly Designed FordPass 5.0 App®: What to Know

[Snakebitten]

I said that 15 posts ago. ??

It does what it says and fixes location. More accurate than any Ford OTA update notes.

You are IOS though, right?

5.0.1 was released to the apple folk before the droids.

Sponsored

 

[Conrad]

Hopefully they bring back zone lighting in an update. One positive thing, could be just me, but actions are completed MUCH faster. Lock / Unlock / remote start. Happy it's free, wasn't worth paying Toyota $15 a month for the app on my Highlander.

 

[cghall77]

They removed the securealert in the old app, now they have removed zone lighting and trailer light check. Those two options I use very frequently towing the sleds and travel trailer. This app is now shit and about the same functionality that I had back 2014 with the myChevrolet app for my Cruze. How can you take a step back 10yrs on a new deployment. If your software is not ready for the real world, hold off, don't deploy some half assed effort.

In talking about all the pain points with the connectivity and app with our dealership, they said that this side of the business is actually outsourced and not under the ford umbrella, is this true?

 

[FirstTimeFord]

Once there on boarded over at VW, I'm absolutely certain there customers will be ecstatic about there tremendous abilities to program great apps for there cars. I can see all of the 5 star ratings now! ?

I'll have one of whatever you're having ?

 

[fordtruckman2003]

You are IOS though, right?

5.0.1 was released to the apple folk before the droids.

No, I installed it on Google Play store last night when it hit store then posted about it here.
I only use an iPhone for work because they force me. Been using Android since the very first Google developer phone that I forgot name of already.

What I do find interesting is Ford connect API website lists all the things removed from FordPass as possible with the API including the alerts for door openings. Either website is outdated or Ford plans to bring those back eventually. ?‍

 

[jeffcrum]

Well, so much for that.

Tried to use PPOB monitoring and zone lighting yesterday. They've been disabled on V4.

Probably means trailer light check won't work when I pull out for home tomorrow either.

UGH!

I just used zone lighting on 4.37.0 Android version from APK Pure. It worked fine.

 

[FirstTimeFord]

I just used zone lighting on 4.37.0 Android version from APK Pure. It worked fine.

 

[Big Dog Daddy]

I just used zone lighting on 4.37.0 Android version from APK Pure. It worked fine.

4.37.0 should continue to work with all of it's features until new OTA updates are sent to the truck, that may change connectivity to the old app.
In other words as long as nothing changes on the truck 4.37.0 could continue to work without problem for a long time

 

[jeffcrum]

I was NOT asking. I was telling ?

 

[jeffcrum]

4.37.0 should continue to work with all of it's features until new OTA updates are sent to the truck, that may change connectivity to the old app.
In other words as long as nothing changes on the truck 4.37.0 could continue to work without problem for a long time

I have taken at least one update since 5 came out. Maybe two updates.

But could be behind still I guess.

Maybe @Ford Motor Company lets me keep it because I talk so nice about them here ?

 

[Big Dog Daddy]

I have taken at least one update since 5 came out. Maybe two updates.

But could be behind still I guess.

Maybe @Ford Motor Company lets me keep it because I talk so nice about them here ?

My 2021 truck is current with every available OTA, and all FDRS updates as of last week and 4 37.0 is still fully functional on my truck. Most likely a new TCU or GWM update will lock us out from 4 37 0 at that point we will probably be forced to 5 if we want to still use the app

 

[jeffcrum]

My 2021 truck is current with every available OTA, and all FDRS updates as of last week and 4 37.0 is still fully functional on my truck. Most likely a new TCU or GWM update will lock us out from 4 37 0 at that point we will probably be forced to 5 if we want to still use the app

Gotcha. Truthfully, unless the options come back that are missing, I'll delete it when they stop as opposed to upgrading to 5.xx.x.

 

[Boyk1182]

This is not the place to ask but I’ve been wondering…

When I bought this truck I connected it to our home WiFi. It had 2 connections for some reason. After a while I noticed they hadn’t connected in a while. Now they’ve dropped off completely. Will I still get updates, and if so, how does that work?

 

[Atlee]

I’m curious when we would ever use those features remotely via phone? The location was Dearborn for me most of the time before and google is fairly ubiquitous. I love grabbing my pitchfork as much as the next guy but I just used the slide and my truck started ??‍

I used them via phone. Zone lighting was great when we were going to the truck in the pitch black of rural Hanover Co, VA. It was good to be able to get the watt usage on both legs of the 7.2 Kw generator when my trailer was plugged in.

Ford is clueless sometimes.

 

[Samson16]

Now I understand the remote zone lighting. Is there a work around? I will buy a trailer someday ??
The second leg issue I can’t see yet. When I place the truck in generator mode both legs become available. Parked or driving makes no difference.

Sponsored