OTA Update - anyone received one yet?

[vCpu]

I'm curious why one would need to connect the truck to your home wifi then?

I asked the salesman the same. As my truck would not connect to my wifi, keeps failing. He said it wouldn’t need connection to my home WiFi to update. I also activated the 3 month\3GB ATT in truck WiFi and its only used 6.30MB and that was me testing it out when I set it up. The FordPass and such are all always connected to Ford. No change in data checking my stats\remote start. I’m assuming its like Tesla’s.

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[sglide05]

Nothing yet for me either.

 

[BlackKnight21]

I'm curious why one would need to connect the truck to your home wifi then?

For faster download

 

[zdjelar]

I got it overnight but no clue what it actually addresses. Of course their info is extra generic and non-useful. Anyone know if anything is “added” or any bugs addressed (i.e. zone lighting battery drain)?

 

[jeffcrum]

Yes, No, and Maybe

 

[BigTex22]

Woke up, checked app, and it’s telling me the update was applied. No clue what it fixed.

 

[PungoteagueDave]

Ford will never detail the OTA bug fixes - for legal reasons. They will tell us about added features when they come. I learned over eight years of Tesla ownership that this is done for corporate legal purposes - never admit you did anything "wrong" and crow when you do good stuff. Any bug fix is tacit error admission. With Microsoft or Apple it isn't a problem because no one has been "injured" by the bug, but with cars, it is giving ammunition to tort lawyers for accident cases, even if no one has truly been hurt by the bug.

 

[JGS]

Ford will never detail the OTA bug fixes - for legal reasons. They will tell us about added features when they come. I learned over eight years of Tesla ownership that this is done for corporate legal purposes - never admit you did anything "wrong" and crow when you do good stuff. Any bug fix is tacit error admission. With Microsoft or Apple it isn't a problem because no one has been "injured" by the bug, but with cars, it is giving ammunition to tort lawyers for accident cases, even if no one has truly been hurt by the bug.

I was bit by a bug once... and it hurt..

 

[CBGray]

Woke up to my first update this morning as well. Other than the app telling me the update happened, I don't think I could tell anything was different.

 

[JGS]

Had my first update last night, my truck was working fine before the update and nothing has changed that I noticed

 

[sglide05]

Mine just updated this morning. I'll check it out later.

 

[Xhaxol]

They should publish what they fixed (patched). So you fixed some bugs, what were they? I don’t buy this “legal” bs. I paid allot and looks like ill continue to pay with visits to the dealer. Time is money! At least give me more than squashed bugs. Not asking for source code here.

 

[CBGray]

Someone on one of the other forums said they thought the Ford boot screen was faster and that CarPlay connected quicker than before. I have to admit, today I did notice the boot screen seeming snappier, but CarPlay was always ready for me in the past, so can’t say I could tell a difference there. If the boot screen is faster, we’re not talking much. But, might be fun for those who haven’t been updated yet to see if they can tell a difference after they do get the update.

 

[Longhorngary]

I got it overnight but no clue what it actually addresses. Of course their info is extra generic and non-useful. Anyone know if anything is “added” or any bugs addressed (i.e. zone lighting battery drain)?

same with me, overnight and just as vague. I'm scared to turn on zone lighting.

 

[zdjelar]

same with me, overnight and just as vague. I'm scared to turn on zone lighting.

Precisely. That’s my point. I work for a Fortune 5 in software/IT - I get the legalese of what you say and what you don’t say I’m release notes. But if you make a statement months ago that you were going to fix the Zone Lighting battery drain bug in a future software release then you’d think they’d make SOME reference to it when it has been addressed. They also alluded to working with apple on some fixes to battery drain issue with FordPass app. Again, when you’ve already admitted the issue, I’d expect acknowledgement of that because they already admitted to the flaw and working it into a future update.

Same on my wife’s 2020 Navigator...there was a battery drain issue with the app, so they fixed it. There was (still is) an issue with Phone-as-Key (recommended to not use it for now until fixed) - they will conceivably tell us when it’s ok to use it again.

I get the legal angle...nothing novel or revolutionary there. But it’s also not absolute and companies who frequently do this also explicitly reference certain high profile fixes if they’ve already publicly acknowledged the issue in the past.

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