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Glad it's not just me wondering about the software issues on the Ioniq.

Besides finding some of it unintuitive, I haven’t run into any bugs. What have you seen? Maybe I don’t recognize it as a bug!

When I'm in parking lots and I see other Ioniqs, I always check to see if the door handles are popped out (which means it's unlocked) -- they usually always are.

I’ve not seen an unlocked Ioniq, and Seattle is littered with them.

the door lock button on the inside of the driver's door doesn't work unless the car is on. Attempting to lock the doors by any method won't work if any of the doors are open (so there is a lot of standing around for my family of four get out of the car). Coupled to that is the poor response of the capacitive touch button on the outside door handle.

I’ve never bumped into the lock/unlock with the car off. That’s interesting. I do wish I could lock the doors before the kids are out. The capacitive touch has been flawless for me. I wonder if yours is faulty and the warranty would replace it?

For what it's worth, the door auto locking module I ordered is one sold by ioniq guy. He is reselling one that was built by shark racing, but he has added an adapter that plugs into your trailer hitch harness in the trunk, rather than having to splice into your car's cam system.

How reliable has that been? I’d hate for it to work 99% of the time, tricking me into thinking it’s locked after I’m already walking away.