Rivian Software Wishlist

The radio volume (especially at the lower volumes) has large variances on each step. So the difference between 1-2 volume levels, and 2-3, are pretty large relative volume gains. I would love there to be finer control of these steps from the steering wheel. It seems like each step is either too soft or too loud (especially if I am speaking to another occupant in the car).

In my prior vehicle, the Volvo XC90, I greatly appreciated the ability to let out the rear air suspension to load and unload the vehicle. This was especially useful when loading our pet dogs. Currently, you have to put the vehicle into drive and change drive modes to achieve a lower ride height - so, possible, but cumbersome. In the Volvo, you simply pressed and held a button in the trunk. A simple option in the app would be greatly useful.

The low-light sensitivity of the Gear Guard Live Cam is terrible. If there's no moonlight (at a minimum), the live cameras are effectively worthless. I would like to have the ability to turn on [Camp Lights] for the side view, [Backup Light] for the rear view, and [Parking Lights] for the front view. Not only would this work as a security deterrent, but it would actually make the Live Cam useful in near total darkness situations. A small lightbulb icon in each of the 4 quadrants could enable this optional feature, and it would automatically turn off when the Live Cam session was ended.

When planning a route or navigating, instead of showing how many miles of range left when I reach the charging station, give us an option to show the percentage of battery left when arrived. Similarly, for a charging stop, show us charge from x% to y% of battery instead of charge for x minutes. Because the minutes is misleading since charging speed varies by many factors.

Unsure if it’s possible based on hardware, but Tesla just changed the cyber trucks horn via OTA. The horn on this truck is puny at best and dangerous at worst.

Why is it on the Rivian platform the volume levels are all over the place from song to song. There is no way. I cannot touch my volume control ever during a playlist. Seems like I’m constantly adjusting the volume. I can listen to the same playlist at home, on my smart phone, just about anything else and I do not have this problem. I really don’t care if another native app comes to this platform. I think the existing bugs need to be squashed rather than releasing something new and adding more bugs and not taking care of the existing bugs. Besides this, just overall volume control improvements need to be made. The other one that’s a thorn in my side that’s been mentioned before is how you could be at the low end of the volume, say one to three and it goes from too loud to not loud enough when you rotated one increment either way. Unacceptable if you have such a large volume scale and you live at the bottom of it all the time.

My previous car, a range rover evoque, had an option in settings called "Winter Wiper Park". This made it so when I turned off the vehicle when it was in park the wipers went up in the same way Rivian's "Wiper Service" mode does. I know we don't turn off Rivians and may not want that to happen whenever we go in park. A couple of options might be: If the vehicle is in Snow mode, upon parking present this similar to the garage door opener on the driver display or in the quick access on the main display. This would make the process of parking outside in ice / snow overnight much more streamlined than going into settings --> service --> wiper service mode each time.

I’d love a widget for my Apple Watch that shows things such as SoC and charging or not. Being able to see that stuff at a glance would be great!

When listening to a playlist, users should be able to tap the artist name to navigate to the artist; Tap the album to go to the album; Tap the song title to go to the song on the album;

Would like to have the ability to manually kneel the truck after parking. Right now, we either have to always kneel or we have to do workarounds such as putting the truck into sport mode. I do not always want to kneel when I am driving, since the height is fine for me. But there are times when I need to kneel the truck for my passengers.