I think I figured out much of the cause of my MobileKey frustrations - baby got back!

[DriverBrian]

I have a '25 Touring and use (or have been trying to with great frustration) MobileKey exclusively with passive lock and passive unlock both enabled. I keep a Valet card in my wallet as well as a backup.

I have been very frustrated with the performance of MobileKey for me and I think I have figured out why. To date I have been leaving my phone in my rear pocket as I approach and use the auto entry or door handles. It's a force of habit from my Tesla where it never caused issues. The auto entry would rarely work and I would sit there pushing the door handle like an idiot with my family trying to get in the car and nothing would happen.

I just did a bunch of testing, simply by standing next to the car (as you would approach it), using the door handles to lock and unlock the car with the fob in my front left pocket, my iPhone (iPhone 15 Pro Max) in my right rear pocket, and then my phone in my left hand (I'm right handed)

Manual lock/unlock (via the door handles) with the Fob in my front left pocket (and bo phone near) has a 100% success rate.
Manual lock/unlock (via the door handles) with the phone in my rear left pocket (and no fob near) has a low 30% success rate, it is incredibly buggy, does not work most of the time and laggy if it works at all - this was the frustration I was experiencing - totally reproducible
Manual lock/unlock (via the door handles) with the phone in my left hand between me and the car (and no fob near) returns the success rate to almost 100%

Clearly, for my car at least, the Lucid MobileKey does not like my 180lb butt (it's not a huge butt) between the phone and the car? Putting the phone in my hand as I approach seems to clear up many of the issues.

I wonder if this is a common theme for the frustrations with MobileKay and passive unlock expressed here. Just a recommendation for others, take your phone out of your pocket (especially if it's a back pocket) and see if it improves your experience for passive and manual entry/locking, It makes a big difference for me - apparently the big bag of water in between (me) is a particularly bad issue for this car/bluetooth antenna/radio.

Looks like I need to get in the habit of taking my phone out of my rear pocket and having it in my hand as I walk up to the car.

Maybe everybody already knew this, in which case I would be the "Butt" of everyone's jokes.

I instead of my driveway this morning for 5 minutes trying to get in the car to put my bag in for a later trip. Couldn't get the car open, couldn't get the mobile app to lock on, couldn't get in the car whatsoever and had to pull out the key card. The problem was me leaving the Bluetooth on on my phone and it keeps seeing me walking close by inside the house and it lights the car unlocks and then locks and locks and locks and after a while it just disconnects the mobile key for safety. Really not sure how to flip that back so it works normal. But that's definitely the thing it locks out after a while opening and closing with nobody getting in.

 

[JGard18]

I have no idea how to set up or use home assistant, so I don't see that as an option. Lucid really should add the geofenced option to disable walk-away lock/unlock when at home like most other manufacturers offer.

 

[RAF42]

I instead of my driveway this morning for 5 minutes trying to get in the car to put my bag in for a later trip. Couldn't get the car open, couldn't get the mobile app to lock on, couldn't get in the car whatsoever and had to pull out the key card. The problem was me leaving the Bluetooth on on my phone and it keeps seeing me walking close by inside the house and it lights the car unlocks and then locks and locks and locks and after a while it just disconnects the mobile key for safety. Really not sure how to flip that back so it works normal. But that's definitely the thing it locks out after a while opening and closing with nobody getting in.

Happens all the time for me, though having the phone (mobile key configured is a must) close and awake (in front of you) and pressing the door handle pretty much always works. Sometimes it's not instant and it takes a few presses, but I've never waited more then 10 or 15 seconds pressing the driver door handle (again, sometimes a few times). Yep, not optimal at all, it certainly is an issue, but irritation aside it for me at least, it's "workable". I know it's not the same for everyone, just a data point.