Tesla's Automations app, an "if this, then that" tool for the car's touchscreen that has so far shipped only to owners in China, appears to be finished and sitting inside current firmware outside China. It just hasn't been switched on. On Oct. 12, Maciej P. Wilczyński (@maciej), who works on Tesla software projects with Tesla Android Project creator Michał Gapiński, posted a video of the app running in English, writing that it "seems that it's now fully polished and present in latest firmware revisions, but hidden behind a feature flag." He said he enabled it with help from @CoilShift, and Not a Tesla App reports the demo shows the feature in stock form, with no modifications.
Gapiński (@mikegapinski) enabled it on a second car and compared it to "the first version of Shortcuts on iOS." Tesla has not announced the feature for North America or Europe, and has not said when, or whether, it will turn it on.
How it works
If you've used Apple Shortcuts or Android's Tasker, the setup will feel familiar. You tap Create an automation, pick a trigger, add optional conditions, then chain one or more actions, with optional delays between them. In Wilczyński's video, buckling the driver's seatbelt while the passenger belt is unbuckled sets the media volume to 9.3. His car also had saved automations that turn on the child locks and window lock when you say "Child Mode," and that announce "Gear Shifted" when the car goes into Drive or Reverse. Each automation shows up as a card you can switch off without deleting it. Gapiński's demo set a reminder to use FSD that plays every time the seatbelt is fastened.
The trigger and action lists Not a Tesla App pulled from the build cover most of the car:
- Triggers: time, sunrise and sunset, outside temperature, air quality and brightness, voice phrases, seat occupancy and seatbelts, door, window, frunk and trunk states, gear, speed and odometer, charging state and battery level, arriving at or leaving a location (including Home or Work), navigation destination and time to arrival, and phone-call state.
- Actions: seat heating and cooling and the steering-wheel heater, windows, window and child locks, frunk, trunk and glove box, acceleration mode and regen, charge port, cabin climate, wipers and defrost, navigation, media and volume, interior lights and headlights, display appearance, Wi-Fi, phone calls, and spoken announcements.
The limits
Per Not a Tesla App, automations only run while the center display is on, they can't be triggered while Autopilot or FSD (Supervised) is engaged, and there are no actions that control FSD. Drive Tesla notes it's still unclear whether every function in the demo will be there at launch.
Why it hasn't shipped yet
Automations first reached Chinese owners in software update 2025.45.32.1, Drive Tesla reports. It had been expected in North America with the 2026 Spring Update, but it was left out even as other features from the Chinese release came over. Finding a fully translated build behind a flag suggests the work is far along. Not a Tesla App argues the app is a strong candidate for this year's Holiday Update, Tesla's biggest software release of the year, possibly alongside long-rumored Apple CarPlay support. That's the outlet's read, not a Tesla commitment.
What it means for owners: No update will add Automations today, and you shouldn't try to unlock hidden features yourself. The video does show how the app would work: think about the routines you repeat every drive (seat heat on cold mornings, child locks for school runs, navigation home when you leave work). Those are exactly what it's built to automate. Watch the release notes for the next major update.