Kaiju
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I have a bit of a mixed history of satisfaction with Rivian software updates and it's less about bugs and more about things they intentionally fuss with that aren't in the patch notes. The reason I don't like it is because you only find out about it after you pass the point of no return, because Rivain won't allow reverts to previous versions.
My first experience was the forced enabling of auto ride height last year, which I still loathe even after they fixed the bug that made it come back on every time I touched the shifter. I thought it was underhanded to slip that in there at the time without announcing it (and, you know, screwing up the implentation), especially since it can cause (or did) actual damage to vehicles with unaware owners hitting low clearance doors or bottoming out on bumps and curbs because the suspension height that had stayed fixed was now changing without their notice. I find myself being caught again because since installing 2025.10 my scheduled charging doesn't work.
I use a dumb charger that doesn't do scheduling itself and for my ownership history I've just set times in the truck and let it do its thing off-peak. Since the latest patch I cannot schedule charging anymore, because for some reason it now requires precise location data sharing with Rivian or the feature is entirely disabled. Why? I figure that probably has to do with people wanting different charging behavior in different locations and the laziest way to do that is through a web app that requires the truck to phone home rather than use the locations in the GPS like for proximity locking. Except...as far as I can tell nobody got that either.
I'm not a fan because I don't believe there's a legitimate use case for giving that data freely to Rivian, since most OEMs collect similar data to sell to third parties. So I don't. Now a simple, dumb feature that previously worked well enough is nonfunctional and there's no mention in the patch notes of that change. First world problems yeah yeah, but I don't like when they do this sort of stuff trying to fly under the radar. It's dishonest. Also it's another 'smart' feature that doesn't need to be that will break at some point in the future, in the same way as features in my old truck stopped working years ago when its factory 2G became deprecated.
My first experience was the forced enabling of auto ride height last year, which I still loathe even after they fixed the bug that made it come back on every time I touched the shifter. I thought it was underhanded to slip that in there at the time without announcing it (and, you know, screwing up the implentation), especially since it can cause (or did) actual damage to vehicles with unaware owners hitting low clearance doors or bottoming out on bumps and curbs because the suspension height that had stayed fixed was now changing without their notice. I find myself being caught again because since installing 2025.10 my scheduled charging doesn't work.
I use a dumb charger that doesn't do scheduling itself and for my ownership history I've just set times in the truck and let it do its thing off-peak. Since the latest patch I cannot schedule charging anymore, because for some reason it now requires precise location data sharing with Rivian or the feature is entirely disabled. Why? I figure that probably has to do with people wanting different charging behavior in different locations and the laziest way to do that is through a web app that requires the truck to phone home rather than use the locations in the GPS like for proximity locking. Except...as far as I can tell nobody got that either.
I'm not a fan because I don't believe there's a legitimate use case for giving that data freely to Rivian, since most OEMs collect similar data to sell to third parties. So I don't. Now a simple, dumb feature that previously worked well enough is nonfunctional and there's no mention in the patch notes of that change. First world problems yeah yeah, but I don't like when they do this sort of stuff trying to fly under the radar. It's dishonest. Also it's another 'smart' feature that doesn't need to be that will break at some point in the future, in the same way as features in my old truck stopped working years ago when its factory 2G became deprecated.
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