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What’s Coming In Rivian Software 2026.07
Read the full release notes here for 2026.07
Rivian’s next software update is shaping up to be a solid round of polish, and 2026.07 should be hitting vehicles soon. Here’s the full breakdown of what’s coming:
Gen 1 and Gen 2
- Rear Defrost now activates the front wiper heating element automatically
- Apple Music: Dolby Audio support added
- Apple Music: New Streaming Quality setting to reduce buffering on weak connections
- Apple Music: More playlists and albums accessible from Artist screens
- Improved Wi-Fi, cellular, and app connectivity reliability
- Better in-vehicle indicators for network issues
- Improved infotainment stability and faster app launch times
- Fixed TuneIn media content titles flashing
- Improved 12V battery capacity management
Gen 2 Only
- Fixed Lane Change on Command rejecting follow-up requests after a completed lane change
- Reduced steering wheel vibrations at highway speeds
- Fixed inconsistent range estimate fluctuations
- Improved 12V battery diagnostics
- Fixed rare charge port door sticking after water ingress
- Protection against a rare electronic park braking fault after vehicle wake
Keep an eye on your vehicle’s software settings for the update to appear.
We waited over a month for this? My gosh all of their focus must be on R2.
Those’ll be nice to have.
Poor showing for a company that is asking for so much more money from thier customers… they gotta earn it first!
Colton Mathews…they have definitely earned it. Where have you been?
It is a kinda sad update, after all the hype of paying 49 a month. I was hoping for more.
See you in June for another “bug fix” update. Maybe Sept we get one of the features promised in 2023 (messaging).
All this is good. But I was hoping for Rivian Assistant
And no fix for the near worthless Alexa and the hands-free still needs fine tuning not to turn to early. I was expecting to see something that would make me pull $50/mo out of my pocket. Sorry, but not yet. Still love my R1.
I like all the early experiment (was playing with Tesla FSD since 2016) but it is hard for me to convince myself paying $50/month for Autonomy+. It is not even comparable to Tesla EAP 8 years ago.
Oof. At the very least was expecting a minor / incremental autonomy update. 🤷🏼♂️
I’m pretty sure they will launch the new UI update along with Rivian Assistant once R2 is released.
Multiple reports online saying the Rivian Assistant (RA) is already shipping on loaners. I was hoping it would be in this month’s update. Sucks
I too would have hoped for some new autonomy improvements to go along with the start of subscription. That said, haven’t there been ‘unannounced’ features in several of the Fall releases? Like Universal Hands Free and the Google Maps overhaul?