Different drivers linked to their own Apple Music and Podcast accounts?

[Leccy61]

Teetering on the brink of coming back to Porsche (911s, Boxsters) from Tesla, but want to be prepared on the software side so as not to have too many surprises. For example, Tesla stores driver profiles in the cloud so when either of us use the car it adopts each of our settings and preferences automatically.

I believe there is a similar concept with a Taycan (secondary user?) although I’m not sure how the car knows what user settings to use, do you have to tell it or does it know from your phone when used as a key or key fob?

Tesla driver settings coverage is pretty comprehensive across things like seats, door mirrors, steering wheel, driver assist and also the infotainment system. In particular we have our Apple Music and Podcast accounts on the Tesla and it will present the right accounts to the right driver so that we don’t end up listening to each others music and pods! Does the Taycan allow for this type of scenario?

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[whitex]

If you really use Tesla's software, you will be disappointed. I have only one profile in my Taycan, and yet it still forgets my seat and mirror settings sometimes (mostly right mirror, might be related to the auto lowering in reverse, which is only available for right mirror). It has also refused to load that profile once or twice since I've had it (had to drive as guest). There is a separate profile settings storage on the door buttons, which I use to restore the stored setting profile, as it is an independent, legacy seats/mirrors/even HUD on-off storage. Software wise there are probably a bunch of other things you will miss from Tesla (I came from a decade of Teslas back to Porsche). If you want the car with best software, stick with Tesla. If you want best car and willing to live with significantly less powerful and more buggy software, go with Porsche. On the bright side, while it takes some getting used to, once you learn to live with its quirks, Taycan is an amazing car. I would not trade it back for a Tesla. My wife on the other hand is a different story, she went from Teslas to Audi EV, a year and half later still missing Tesla software.

Also, Taycan OTA is more of a vaporware than Tesla FSD. The only things it can update is weather app and few other small apps in the PCM.

 

[chun]

Teetering on the brink of coming back to Porsche (911s, Boxsters) from Tesla, but want to be prepared on the software side so as not to have too many surprises. For example, Tesla stores driver profiles in the cloud so when either of us use the car it adopts each of our settings and preferences automatically.

I believe there is a similar concept with a Taycan (secondary user?) although I’m not sure how the car knows what user settings to use, do you have to tell it or does it know from your phone when used as a key or key fob?

Tesla driver settings coverage is pretty comprehensive across things like seats, door mirrors, steering wheel, driver assist and also the infotainment system. In particular we have our Apple Music and Podcast accounts on the Tesla and it will present the right accounts to the right driver so that we don’t end up listening to each others music and pods! Does the Taycan allow for this type of scenario?

1. There is no phone as key. You can assign user profiles to different keys. By default, the car comes with 2 keys.

2. There are in-car buttons for seat profiles. In theory, it should match it with the key also, practically, in my experience, it rarely works. The car often forgets parts of the driver settings: steering wheel adjustment, mirrors, seat height / lombar / etc adjustment.

3. The car is supposed to power on when you get in, if you have the key in your pocket or you place it on the center arm rest. This also works only sometimes.

Taycan software is about a decade behind Tesla / Rivian / Lucid / BYD / Most non-german car brands.

For a better software experience in a traditional car maker EV, you'd have to go to BMW.
For a good software experience, with very ugly UI, and real FSD, from a traditional car maker, you would have to go with Mercedes. I will mention that Merceds does have real FSD, not like the vapowave that is Tesla.

On Porsche's side, the new Macan EV has more 2020s software.

 

[Leccy61]

Many thanks for the insights on this, I have some idea of what to expect having come to Tesla EV via Volkswagen group EVs. However I’m particularly j tested in the driver profiles being able to deal with different Apple Music and Podcast accounts. From the replies so far I’m thinking that’s not in scope.

 

[Alemany]

Teetering on the brink of coming back to Porsche (911s, Boxsters) from Tesla, but want to be prepared on the software side so as not to have too many surprises. For example, Tesla stores driver profiles in the cloud so when either of us use the car it adopts each of our settings and preferences automatically.

I believe there is a similar concept with a Taycan (secondary user?) although I’m not sure how the car knows what user settings to use, do you have to tell it or does it know from your phone when used as a key or key fob?

Tesla driver settings coverage is pretty comprehensive across things like seats, door mirrors, steering wheel, driver assist and also the infotainment system. In particular we have our Apple Music and Podcast accounts on the Tesla and it will present the right accounts to the right driver so that we don’t end up listening to each others music and pods! Does the Taycan allow for this type of scenario?

As a previous Tesla owner (twice), and now a Taycan owner (also twice), I will tell you the car is excellent, the software sucks pond water, is terrible and is constantly hit and miss. Things work whenevr they do which is not always. If you like the Tesla software you will be disappointed. But as a car (mechanical car) is orders of magnitude better than Tesla. IMHO

 

[Wannabe Batman]

The software in this otherwise amazing car is a complete and utter joke. How corporate green-lit this abomination is mind boggling. Using it feels like using a touch phone in the pre-iphone 1 era. It's slow, counterintuitive, ugly and lacks functionality. It so doesn't match the driving experience and looks of the car.

Coming from a Model 3 this was quite the adjustment sadly. Luckily Carplay made the transition smoother. Though I still miss the pinch zoom / pan smoothness of the maps in the Tesla.

In regards to the different profiles for music and podcasts. We gave up on using the native apps in the PCM. Searching something on it is just terrible.
Just use Carplay/Android Auto from your phone and you can use your own Spotify etc. accounts without screwing up each others listing history.

 

[Leccy61]

Yeah, there’s always CarPlay. Thanks all ?

 

[julianm]

Yes the car has separate software profiles, which are linked to separate Porsche accounts. The first linked account has the ability to invite other Porsche accounts, which then can make their own profiles.

I haven’t figured out how to specifically assign a key to a profile (like Polestar 2). From what I can tell, it attempts to remember which profile was used to the key used to lock the car. This is how my older Volvo worked, and like that Volvo, if we have both drivers with their keys, it easily remembers the wrong key.

The separate profiles do have separately-linked Apple Music accounts. Has to be set up separately for each profile. I’ve not tried Podcasts but I assume it’d be the same.

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