{"id":307083,"date":"2026-02-20T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307083\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:48:09","slug":"rivian-rolls-out-an-apple-watch-app-with-vehicle-controls-and-digital-key-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307083\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivian rolls out an Apple Watch app with vehicle controls and digital key support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rivian suggests that vehicle owners can leave their phone at home (or perhaps in a glove box) and instead control some aspects of their EV using a new Apple Watch app<\/a>. With a tap of your watch, you can unlock and lock the doors, sound the alarm and vent the windows. After the digital key is set up, R1S and R1T Gen 2<\/a> owners can unlock their vehicle automatically simply by walking up to it thanks to the passive car key feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s possible to set the cabin temperature and a target state of charge by turning the digital crown on an Apple Watch. You also can choose four quick controls to put front and center in the app and add a battery status indicator to your watch face if you so wish. Rivian says it will update its Apple Watch app with new features in the future.<\/p>\n

Rivian first enabled digital car key support on Apple, Google Pixel and Samsung devices back in December<\/a>. Apple started supporting digital car keys<\/a> on iPhone and Apple Watch in 2020 and a boatload of automakers have adopted the tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rivian suggests that vehicle owners can leave their phone at home (or perhaps in a glove box) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1313,203,61,60,26696,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-307083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-apple-watch","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-rivian","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}