[KevMeist]

Don't let it consume you. You can always use the app to open or close the doors or use the fob if it's easier. I find the phone app is the easisest.
Make sure you don't grab the handle first if you are locking the door, it glitches the system. If you have cream or have just cleaned your hands with hand gel, maybe that affects your ability to lock or unlock the doors.
You can try to clean the area where the sensor is with a damp cloth, or maybe soap and water!

Good luck and happy new year!

Interesting that you talk about cream. When I was still working (at the FBI), we had flash drives where we used to unlock with a registered fingerprint. When these first came in about about 15 years ago, I registered my fingerprint downstairs in the IT department. When doing this, it wouldn't register. So, they suggested that I put some lotion on my finger. Then, it registered OK. The trouble was that after that I, often, had to put lotion on my finger to unlock it 😬. Oh well!

 

[janz8]

That's funny! We had an issue with a tv touch screen on an airplane a few years ago - cleaned it with a wipe and it wouldn't work after that! We will not be doing that again!

 

[Santa Fe driver]

Why would you want to lock your car if a door is still open?

Convenience!! My previous vehicle did this and I still greatly miss that feature. My habit was to promply open my door, wait for my wife to open her door, and then promptly hit the inside door lock button. Then my wife & I would grab all our stuff, get out of the vehicle and shove the doors closed. If one of us had inadvertently left our keys in the vehicle, the doors would promptly unlock and alarms would go off alerting us to the oversight. Now, with the Hyundai, I have to find a free ungloved hand to carefully touch a tab after everyone else has closed their door. What an unnecessary nuisance!

 

[janz8]

Use your app! Sometimes I lock the door from inside my house if it's cold outside and I also don't want to take off my gloves or hunt for my fob.

Just remember that a few years back we had to use a stupid key for everything! How annoying that was!

 

[Santa Fe driver]

Even before the days of FOBs I could lock the doors with a button on the inside of the doors. I don't really need to lock the doors when I am at home - my vehicle is in a secure garage. It's when I am downtown in the freezing cold that I need to lock the doors. Furthermore, if I preferred to use my phone, I don't need my FOB since Digital Key can replace it (BTW, without a FOB the inside door lock works, but then unlocks & alarms when you close the door, requiring you to use Digital Key NFC [or BT remote] to lock the doors.).

 

[janz8]

I also like to hit the lock and close the door when you leave the car, like in the old days, but the fob system prevents this. If you don't carry your fob, then the car allows you to lock from inside. The only place i had a problem was when i accidently put my key in the trunk and then auto closed it and the car was already locked. I had to use my phone to unlock doors!

 

[tucsonInLA]

I also like to hit the lock and close the door when you leave the car, like in the old days, but the fob system prevents this. If you don't carry your fob, then the car allows you to lock from inside. The only place i had a problem was when i accidently put my key in the trunk and then auto closed it and the car was already locked. I had to use my phone to unlock doors!

HAHA... the "only" problem ?? Try finding the stupid APP which was covered up by your refrigerator app and grouped with your "change the ceiling lights color" app.... 🤣 and then pulling your mittens off with your teeth....

We've gone nuts with apps... I climb out of my 2016 Lincoln hybrid and I can lock it from inside as well as my 2005 "wife's" car. Hyundai could learn a lot from that 7 year old technology.

When do "features" and "enhancements" become totally burdensome and more a distraction than a helpful feature? You know Hyundai has gone off the deep end when this forum takes 10 pages of comments on a stupid door opening "system?

btw.... How many of you saw this ???? "They" are coming to save us.

https://autos.yahoo.com/effort-defeat-government-kill-switches-180020777.html

 

[Alex]

When do "features" and "enhancements" become totally burdensome and more a distraction than a helpful feature? You know Hyundai has gone off the deep end when this forum takes 10 pages of comments on a stupid door opening "system?

nment-kill-switches-180020777.html

This is what happens when you start to get computer companies in the auto business. We are not stuck with idiocy like not being able to replace a crappy radio because the radio is integrated in the cars network.

The more I read about those "features" being put in new cars that allow others to control your car, the more likely it will be that the built in cell phone functions of my new car is going to suddenly break and not function.

 

[tucsonInLA]

This is what happens when you start to get computer companies in the auto business. We are not stuck with idiocy like not being able to replace a crappy radio because the radio is integrated in the cars network.

The more I read about those "features" being put in new cars that allow others to control your car, the more likely it will be that the built in cell phone functions of my new car is going to suddenly break and not function.

Monday afternoon I pushed the ON button on my cell phone and swiped across the screen. The screen was dark green with a long black band with acne.
Think about standing in the snow, banging on the phone, restarting and banging on it more. No fob in your pocket. What'cha gonna do now? << rhetorical question

$150 later, Tuesday afternoon it was fixed at a Samsung center.

 

[Alex]

Monday afternoon I pushed the ON button on my cell phone and swiped across the screen. The screen was dark green with a long black band with acne.
Think about standing in the snow, banging on the phone, restarting and banging on it more. No fob in your pocket. What'cha gonna do now? << rhetorical question

$150 later, Tuesday afternoon it was fixed at a Samsung center.

I have more faith in a physical key than using the phone to open the car. I will say that having the phone as a back up is a good thing. You never know when you might lock the keys in the car.

 

[janz8]

HAHA... the "only" problem ?? Try finding the stupid APP which was covered up by your refrigerator app and grouped with your "change the ceiling lights color" app.... 🤣 and then pulling your mittens off with your teeth....

We've gone nuts with apps... I climb out of my 2016 Lincoln hybrid and I can lock it from inside as well as my 2005 "wife's" car. Hyundai could learn a lot from that 7 year old technology.

When do "features" and "enhancements" become totally burdensome and more a distraction than a helpful feature? You know Hyundai has gone off the deep end when this forum takes 10 pages of comments on a stupid door opening "system?

btw.... How many of you saw this ???? "They" are coming to save us.

https://autos.yahoo.com/effort-defeat-government-kill-switches-180020777.html

I agree that I also have too many apps. I have grouped some so they are bunched together - like restaurant apps. But i still sometimes can't find a particular app and actually have to search for it at the end as I scroll towards the right. It's so crazy to need an app for everything but sometimes you really do need that app!
Happy new year!

 

[unmerited]

Swiping my hand along the outside of the handle to lock the doors, and grabbing the handle (making sure my fingers are on the inside also) to unlock, has worked almost without fail. There have been only a couple times where I had to swipe more than once to lock. Hopefully this will continue because I really like this feature.

 

[RevLauren]

Swiping my hand along the outside of the handle to lock the doors, and grabbing the handle (making sure my fingers are on the inside also) to unlock, has worked almost without fail. There have been only a couple times where I had to swipe more than once to lock. Hopefully this will continue because I really like this feature.

Even though it took a little getting used to... I initially thought I should be pressing SOMETHING to lock the doors ( like the little button on my Sonata door handle)...I finally realized I was making it all too hard. A quick swipe, even with just the back of my hand barely making contact, and the doors are locked. And, when I walk up to the car and gently rest my hand on the door handle without pulling on it impatiently, the doors unlock. I rarely have any reason to take the fob out of my handbag. Should I forget to lock up, the app will text me an alert and I can remedy that with a simple tap on the screen.

By the way, as I posted in another thread, the Hyundai Bluelink app was selected best of its type by J.D. Power for 2023. I happen to like it, but the good news is that if people don't care to use an app, everything works fine without it.

 

[Dksmith]

Here's what tripped me up my first week of ownership. Ymmv. When I went to lock the car, I would just grab the handle, making sure to brush my thumb across the "lock" dimple on the outside of the handle. Sometimes it worked, most times it didn't. I finally figured out that while trying to lock, my fingers were also loosely wrapped around the handle, lightly (unintentionally) touching the handle inside (the unlock zone). That was apparently confusing the car, so it just stared at me and did nothing. It took a while to break that habit since that's how I've been grabbing car door handles for the last 50+ years, but once I quit touching the handle inside surface when locking, it's been 100% perfect.

Thanks for this update. I've apparently been locking/unlocking completely wrong. No wonder I want to scream...

 

[KevMeist]

Thanks for this update. I've apparently been locking/unlocking completely wrong. No wonder I want to scream...

I think many of us (me included) had issues with locking and unlocking the Tucson doors initially. It would seem that sales in many dealers do NOT explain this very well.

 

[ima10sace]

I think many of us (me included) had issues with locking and unlocking the Tucson doors initially. It would seem that sales in many dealers do NOT explain this very well.

I picked up my 2023 Tucson Hybrid Blue from the dealer and no one went over anything in the car with me, so its been a mish mash of me figuring it out, reading the manual, reading online posts and generally wondering why certain things don't work the way a rational person would design them to work. I will never buy a car with push button start, push button transmission, push button rear hatch or keyless entry/lock ever again.

 

[tucsonInLA]

Even though it took a little getting used to... I initially thought I should be pressing SOMETHING to lock the doors ( like the little button on my Sonata door handle)...I finally realized I was making it all too hard. A quick swipe, even with just the back of my hand barely making contact, and the doors are locked. And, when I walk up to the car and gently rest my hand on the door handle without pulling on it impatiently, the doors unlock. I rarely have any reason to take the fob out of my handbag. Should I forget to lock up, the app will text me an alert and I can remedy that with a simple tap on the screen.

By the way, as I posted in another thread, the Hyundai Bluelink app was selected best of its type by J.D. Power for 2023. I happen to like it, but the good news is that if people don't care to use an app, everything works fine without it.

I've got to find a link and read the Privacy Statement for Blulink. Anecdotal talking points sound awful.

 

[SueCee711]

I picked up my 2023 Tucson Hybrid Blue from the dealer and no one went over anything in the car with me, so its been a mish mash of me figuring it out, reading the manual, reading online posts and generally wondering why certain things don't work the way a rational person would design them to work. I will never buy a car with push button start, push button transmission, push button rear hatch or keyless entry/lock ever again.

I’m right there with you but I’ll go one step further. I’d never buy a Hyundai again!

 

[SueCee711]

Convenience!! My previous vehicle did this and I still greatly miss that feature. My habit was to promply open my door, wait for my wife to open her door, and then promptly hit the inside door lock button. Then my wife & I would grab all our stuff, get out of the vehicle and shove the doors closed. If one of us had inadvertently left our keys in the vehicle, the doors would promptly unlock and alarms would go off alerting us to the oversight. Now, with the Hyundai, I have to find a free ungloved hand to carefully touch a tab after everyone else has closed their door. What an unnecessary nuisance!

100% agree

 

[20-yr Owner]

I’m right there with you but I’ll go one step further. I’d never buy a Hyundai again!

Sorry you're disappointed. My experience has been very different. I've been buying (new) cars since 1966: MGB, Dodge Charger, three Toyotas, three Fords, and this is my third Hyundai since 2003. My Tucson HEV is the best car I've ever owned.