Using Exterior Door Handles
Use your thumb to push the wide part of the door handle. The
handle pivots toward you, and you can open the door by
pulling the handle or pulling the edge of the door.
The handle retracts automatically.
When a door or trunk is open, the touchscreen
displays the Door Open indicator light.
NOTE: See Cold Weather Best Practices on page 140 to
ensure door handles function properly in cold weather.
WARNING: While using the door handle, take care to
avoid allowing fingers, jewelry, acrylic nails, etc. from
being pinched by the door or door handle mechanism.
Failure to do so may result in damage or injury.
CAUTION: Slamming or forcing closures (including the
doors, liftgate, or front trunk) can result in damage not
covered under warranty.
Opening Doors from the Interior
Model Y doors are electrically powered. To open a door while
sitting inside, press the button located at the top of the
interior door handle while pushing the door open.
NOTE: To prevent children from opening the rear doors, turn
on child locks (see Child Locks on page 27).
NOTE: In the unlikely event that Model Y has no low voltage
power, you will be unable to open the doors with the button
on the top of the door handle. See Opening Doors with No
Power on page 216 for more information.
Interior Locking and Unlocking
While sitting inside Model Y, you can lock and unlock all
doors and trunks by touching the lock icon on the
touchscreen.
The icon changes to indicate whether doors
are locked or unlocked.
If you have enabled your phone as a key, your vehicle cannot
tell whether your phone is inside or outside of the vehicle. If
you want to lock the doors while inside
Model Y so that they
cannot be opened from the outside, close the doors and use
the lock icon on the touchscreen. This temporarily overrides
any phone lock settings, such as Walk-Away Door Lock.
Otherwise, because your phone is enabled as a key, the
doors will unlock when the exterior door handles are pulled
even if you press the lock icon on your mobile app. If you
open the door from the inside, that will once again allow the
doors to be opened from the outside so long as the phone
key is detected. (see
Phone Key on page 21 for more
information).
Doors
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