Ordering a Rivian? Use code JOSE1715716 to earn up to 500 points + 3 months of free RAN charging.
Rivian Fixes Random Privacy Toggling in Latest R1 Hotfix
Quick heads-up for R1 owners, the 2026.15.01 (Gen 1 R1) and 2026.15.30 (Gen 2 R1) hotfix is out, and Rivian patched something a little odd with it. Some privacy settings had been toggling on and off on their own. Location, the Autonomy stuff. The settings you set once and forget about.
Rivian is calling it rare but I know that both my vehicles were impacted alongside many across different social platforms. Rare or not, these are not the settings you want changing randomly. After you update, go back into your privacy menu and make sure everything reads the way you left it.
Anyway, grab it when you get the chance and just give the privacy screen a once-over afterward plus the improvements made to Rivian Assistant.
Yeah, strangely that happened to me just today. Tried to engage UHF, which I’d been using for months, and it said the privacy settings didn’t allow it. Got that changed, and it worked again. UHF had just been working the day before, so no obvious reason it changed.
Happened to me too. Rivian Roamer sent me an email letting me know that my location wasn’t reporting & to check the settings.
I just installed the 2026.15.30 hotfix, and these were the settings I had to reenable:
1) Precise Location — this was prompted once hotfix installed
2) Gear Guard — Road Cam (had to do the suggested system reset first); this is frustrating that I need to reenable every OTA update
3) Autonomy — Lane Change Warning
I am not believing these are “rare” issues…
So rare I experienced it on both my Rivian vehicles.
Jose, thanks for posting this fix. Has been driving me nuts trying to figure why A+ wasn’t doing the lane changes. Worked right away. Appreciate you!
Just bitten by this today as well, but my truck is not indicating a hotfix is available yet. Let’s hope it’s sent soon.
I feel like I’ve seen lots of bugginess with the software these last few weeks. Phone app slowness and unresponsiveness, Apple Music playback issues, this new bug… Many niggling issues that end up putting a damper on my ownership.
Did the hot fix stop getting rolled out? It normally doesn’t take me this long to get a pop up and Rivian Roamer doesn’t have it listed in their software inventory. Some bug in the hot fix?
Think it only started on Friday, with no new pushes over the weekend. I just got the push yesterday, but it’s still new.
Still waiting for mine too.