u/apocalypsenow7

Hey everyone,
I’m hoping we can get some traction on this so the software team in Gothenburg sees it, because the passive entry behavior on the Polestar 3 at home is driving me completely insane.
My kitchen sits right near the garage/driveway. Every single time I walk to the fridge or move around the kitchen with my phone in my pocket, the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) signal bleeds through the wall. The car goes through its entire welcome routine—clicking, popping the flush door handles out, unfolding the mirrors, and flashing the lights—hundreds of times a day. It is a massive drain on the background battery and putting completely unnecessary wear and tear on the handle actuators.
And before anyone suggests it: No, I am not going to disable "Unlock on Approach."
I love the feature when I’m out running errands, at work, or in a parking lot. Disabling a core premium feature just because the software lacks a basic configuration layer is a compromised workaround.
Other luxury brands solved this ages ago. My BMW handles this flawlessly with an OTA update that introduced an "Exclude Home Address" rule for the digital key. The car knows exactly where it is via GPS, stays dead silent when parked at home, and only opens when I explicitly touch the door handle sensor.
The most frustrating part? The Polestar 3 already has location-based geofencing built into the software. The car perfectly tracks coordinates to manage localized charging location profiles and preferences. The underlying logic is already sitting right there in the core system.
Polestar just needs to link that existing location awareness to the Locking/Unlocking menu: [ ] Exclude Home Address from Proximity Unlock.
If your P3 is constantly cycling its door handles while you're just trying to live your life inside your house, please upvote this or drop a comment. This is a fundamental quality-of-life fix that a software-defined luxury vehicle should have had on day one.