Nissan Virtual Key

Well my Nissan Virtual Key was installed. Didn’t take me 3 min to find the first major strike against the app. I went to share my virtual key with my daughter and after hitting the Invite New Driver button it prompted me to share my contacts with the app. No flipping way am I letting this random company upload my contacts. So I said no. And in return, poof, the feature of sharing my virtual key with someone is now disabled. Makes no sense that I have to give you contact information for every contact in my address book so I can share the virtual key with one person. What in the world is Nissan and this third party developer thinking? (And that’s putting it mildly.) There’s no technical reason you need access to all of my contacts’ information and you’re not getting it. There’s a principle in IT: you don’t want any more access to systems or information that what you absolutely need. If you don’t follow this principle then you are unnecessarily vulnerable to more problems when systems are breached or fail. Start following this principle or you’ll have fewer customers, and Nissan will sell fewer cars.

I paid $600+ to have this installed on my Ariya because I don’t carry a purse and hate having to attach a key fob to my phone. With this app you CANNOT walk up to you car and have it recognize your virtual key and unlock automatically (like the keyfob does). The app does NOT control the unlock button on your car. Instead, you have to pull out your phone, open the app, and WAIT and WAIT for it to connect and only then can you hit unlock from the app. I was stuck in a parking garage just WAITING and WAITING standing next to my car and felt VERY unsafe. When I was FINALLY able to get into my car, then you have to hit the “Enable start” button on the app. WHY do I have to enable this every time??!! Why doesn’t the app just keep “enable start” always enabled??!! Do NOT waste your money…the keyfob (although bulky to carry) has MUCH better functionality. This app is the crappiest most useless key and if a keyfob worked like this, everyone would be up in arms. I am now trying to get Nissan to refund me for this absolutely useless aftermarket “feature”. I should have bought a Tesla with this feature already installed and working properly. UGH!!!!!!!

I tried putting a new password but says incorrect and I put it in my notes and than putting it in but it still doesn’t work soooo..