Digital Key Advice!!
I purchased a 2024 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid Limited at the end of 2024. I got lucky and found a dealer loaner with 5k miles on it. When I first bought it, I looked into Bluelink and I swear the only info I found said it had a monthly fee, so I didn’t bother with it.
Fast forward to last week when I took my oldest to the dealer to trade her car in and found out that in my car it is included for free for the first owner for the life I own the vehicle!!
I was so excited, I set it all up, and everything was simple… until I got to the Digital Key. Mind you, I am a tech nerd, but it kept failing to connect. I searched Google, talked to AI… NOTHING WAS WORKING.
I had to return to the dealer to sign over the title on my daughter’s old car, so I asked for a salesman that was good with Bluelink to help me. Still nothing.
He told me to call Bluelink… y’all it took her minutes to figure out the issue. So I wanted to share in case anyone else has had this issue!
The whole process worked until I clicked “pair”. It wouldn’t recognize my phone. (I have an. iPhone 17 pro max) Apparently the issue is that in most newer phones, the NFC chip is in the very top of the phone. The instructions tell you to place your phone on the wireless charger to connect.. she told me to make it so the top of the phone touches the charging pad and BOOM. Connected.
So if you haven’t been able to get yours to connect, don’t lay it flat on the wireless charger, just the top of the phone needs to touch it.
I called the salesman back to let him know what the trick was, and he thanked me because a lot of people have had the same issue and he had no clue how to help them.
Hope this helps someone else who was ready to give up on the digital key!!! lol. Honestly having it wasn’t even a big deal, it just became a vendetta when I couldn’t figure it out. I don’t like when technology isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do 🤣