Tesla started rolling out version 4.61.0 of its mobile app on the evening of Friday 19 September 2026. Two features arrived with it, and neither is named in the official release notes: passkey sign-in, and the Supercharger Site Maps that until now existed only inside the car.
Passkeys replace the password
Passkey support turns up under Security & Privacy rather than in a changelog. The setup path is Menu, then your profile name, then Security & Privacy, then Sign In Management, then the blue Add Passkey button. It takes under a minute.
What it changes is that signing in to a Tesla account no longer needs a typed password. Face ID, Touch ID or the device passcode authorises it instead, and the private key stays on the phone. Because that key never leaves the device and will not answer a fake prompt, a password exposed in a breach is no longer enough on its own to reach an account — and on a Tesla, an account is a key to the car.
None of this was announced. It was spotted by X user Rhys Samson, who posted a screenshot of the new option in Sign In Management. TeslAnt reported the passkey code sitting unused in app 4.60 in August; this is that work going live.
iOS is confirmed on 4.61.0. Android is expected to behave the same way through fingerprint authentication and Google's credential manager, but Tesla has published neither a version number nor a date for it.
Site Maps leave the dashboard
The second addition matters more to anyone who charges in public. Supercharger Site Maps — the rendered view of a charging site showing each stall and whether it is free, occupied or out of service — now work in the app. Open the charging map, zoom into a supported site, and the view switches to the Site Map on its own.
The app version keeps the detail that decides things at a busy site: a stall blocked by a non-Tesla EV whose charge port sits on the opposite corner, and which therefore takes up two bays.
The hardware gate is gone. The coverage gate is not.
In the car, Site Maps require an AMD Ryzen infotainment computer. Owners of earlier Intel-based Model 3s and Model Ys have been shut out since launch and cannot buy their way in short of a computer swap. The app carries no such requirement, so those owners now get the feature on a phone that their car will still not show them.
Coverage is the limit that remains, and for European owners it is the binding one.
| Date | Sites with a Site Map |
|---|---|
| Late 2025, Holiday Update | 18, in California and Texas |
| February 2026 | About 300, most US states |
| September 2026 | Almost every US Supercharger |
| Europe | Two, both in Belgium |
TeslAnt counted those two Belgian sites on 5 September, and Tesla has not announced an expansion since. Moving the feature into the app widens who can open it. It does not widen where it exists. A European owner who installs 4.61.0 today will find that passkeys work everywhere and Site Maps work in two car parks.
Canada received the in-car feature in May 2026. Tesla adds sites in batches — hundreds in a week when it moves at all — so the European number can change quickly. As of this release it has not.