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What’s Coming in Rivian’s 2026.15.30 Hotfix
Rivian’s got a new update in testing that should hit cars externally before long. Version 2026.15.30. It’s not a feature drop, it’s a hotfix, and nearly all of it goes into Rivian Assistant. Gen 1 and Gen 2 R1T and R1S all get it.
A lot of what’s been quietly bugging me about the assistant is on this list, so here’s what’s worth knowing.
- It searches Favorites first now, then Recents, then your contacts, instead of guessing. It handles names it used to mangle, defaults to your mobile number, and you can ask what number you have for someone without it dialing them, which used to drive me nuts.
- Dictate a text and it punctuates for you. They also retuned the “Hey Rivian” wake word so you’re not repeating yourself three times to get its attention.
- Small one I like. It finally knows what your vehicle has, so it won’t try to work a powered liftgate on an R1T that never came with one.
- Navigation got real attention. It can read routes off your screen before you start driving, it’s better at finding POIs, and they killed that bug where updating a saved spot by voice would wipe your charging filters. Same with the one where every stop on a road trip showed the same arrival time, which was confusing on longer drives.
- Climate is smarter. Ask for a temperature with climate off and it restores your old fan speed instead of blasting the lowest setting, “make it warmer” lands somewhere reasonable now, and it heats the seat you actually asked for.
- Calendar respects events you’ve hidden, knows what day you mean when you say “this Friday,” and stops mangling the tense when it reads things back.
- The chimes are quieter too, straight from people complaining about it.
The one I’d flag on its own is availability. It used to be locked to your region, but now it just follows your vehicle’s language setting, so if your car is in English you get the assistant wherever you are. That quietly unlocks it for owners up in Quebec who were shut out before, which is a nice win for them.
There’s the usual behind the scenes stuff too. Smarter cloud logic for bad signal areas, per-user encryption on Assistant Memory, chat history that clears when you switch profiles, a few profile and PIN fixes, and the minimum speed for Universal Hands-Free, Highway Assist, and Adaptive Cruise Control dropping to 5 mph.
None of it is exciting on paper. It’s mostly making the assistant you already own behave the way it should have from day one, which is what a hotfix is for, and honestly half of these are daily irritations I’ll be glad to see gone. Should land externally before long.
I’m hoping for a fix for UHF. Lately it’s been struggling with lane centering (and even showing itself going all over in the lane). Sometimes losing UHF altogether. Much less usable than previously.
Does your Rivian do this on all roads or just those with Safety Grooves? I’ve noted that when transitioning from a tar surface to a concrete surface, the UHF has a terrible time adjusting to the wider tires tramlining or being pulled back/forth. However, if your UHF is showing itself moving about the lane when the car is planted in the lane, it is a radar problem, clean them. You may also find early morning or late afternoon glare blind and kick out of UHF because it can’t see enough of the road. If you will, 1st world problems. -RJ
My biggest complaint, and not necessarily with assistant… let you assign a primary phone to each driver profile. I start driving and because my wife gets in passenger seat first, it always defaults to her phone. I have to manually switch phones.
Why can’t each driver profile pick the phone associated and then connect to THAT phone.
First world problems 🙂
I have this issue too and it drives me nuts!
I’m impressed. That’s a decent hotfix!
CarPlay Please!
Looks like good progress. @Rivian please integrate Apple Calendar with Rivian Assistant or give us CarPlay in a window if you are going to take a long time.
I purchased Autonomy+ basically for the past trip from California to Oregon. I have a gen 2 R1S. About 200 miles in to trip the uhf stopped working. At my first charging stop I did a software reset and that fixed the problem but then it happened again. The software reset did not fix it. The rest of the trip I did not have uhf. Very frustrating !
Over longer drives, the processors seem to get overwhelmed or saturated. Also, if UHF won’t kick back in on a long drive, I take it to a impromptu car wash. Seems to help clear up vision issues. Bugs and debris in certain areas seem to have debilitating results on UHF accuracy. Also, pay close attention to the bottom driver screen for any new icons (yellow or red) that may help describe why UHF won’t engage. One final note, and this is personal, if you are excessively warned then “kicked out” of UHF for not paying adequate attention to the road, UHF won’t re-engage until you first park.
Rivian’s software is expanding and getting better with each new drop. There’s not a legacy ICE vehicle that gets better over the months and years. I am looking forward to seeing what Rivian has coming over the next few years.
I am really waiting for a fix with UHF with all the random system faults and requiring a vehicle reset to recover it.
Hopefully they fix the bug where those with a lot of contacts (1K+) cannot use the Send Message at all. Initial contact sync runs forever, so Assistant just says “contacts still syncing”.
Great news! I found I wasn’t exploring Assistant much because of fails and bugginess. I look forward to the “hot fix”. Hoping you’ll do another video of using the 2026.15.30 Rivian Assistant once you’ve installed and played with it a bit.
Installing now. Cant wait for the small fixes.
I am also hoping this does something with the UHF bug. I just finished a 2400 mile trip and UHF disabled itself 15+ times. Sometimes it would require a full restart, sometimes it wouldn’t.
Lane change, and the feature that makes the blinker automatically turn off on highways is also struggling. Roads I’ve done lane changes 100s of times on are now apparently “unavailable”.
Anyone else having issues with Location services in the app after installing the hotfix?
Nevermind. A bunch of new location permissions were added to Settings on the vehicle itself that were disabled by default that I didn’t see until I looked deeper into them after the update.
2026.15.30 has bricked all sounds in my R1T Gen2. Reboots did not fix