Add the Bluetooth key

With the Bluetooth key, your iPhone becomes a key to your car: within Bluetooth range, the app’s commands go straight to the car, without Tesla’s or Copeel’s servers, even underground and even with the car asleep. Out of range, they go over the internet as usual.

What you need

• A Model 3 or Model Y, a Model S or X from 2021 or later, or a Cybertruck.
• Bluetooth turned on for your iPhone, and Bluetooth access allowed for Copeel.
• Your Tesla key card, and you sitting in the car.

Adding the key

1. Sit in the car, with your key card.
2. In Copeel, open Profile › My Vehicles, tap your car, then Bluetooth Key.
3. Tap Set up, then Start.
4. When the app shows “Approve the key in your car”, place your key card on the center console, then confirm the new key on the car’s screen. A countdown shows how much time you have left.
5. The app shows “Key active”. Tap Test by flashing the lights to check, or Done.

The key belongs to this iPhone: it’s created in its keychain and never leaves it. Another iPhone, or your Apple Watch, needs its own key.

Removing the key

1. Open Profile › My Vehicles, tap your car, then Bluetooth Key.
2. Tap Remove key. If you turned on Copeel’s app lock, confirm it’s you with Face ID.
3. Tap Remove.

Copeel then asks the car to drop the key, if it’s within range. Otherwise, the app shows “Key still in the car”: remove it from the car, under Controls › Locks.