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How To Make Horn Beep In Parking Lot?

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Old 04-20-23, 07:32 AM
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Default How To Make Horn Beep In Parking Lot?

So today I was totally not paying attention when I left my car in the large, filled grocery store parking lot. And I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out how to make the car horn beep like I could with the FOB that I didn’t have. The app does have a “buzzer” button that isn’t really a buzzer at all, just a very quiet key beep multiple tone. And the map showing the car was hard to decipher. Is there a way to remotely beep the horn, “to find the car”, with the app in the same way you could with the FOB?

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You can't just activate the lock button again? That is usually the "finder" button to make the car beep.
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Originally Posted by lexusnyca
You can't just activate the lock button again? That is usually the "finder" button to make the car beep.
No. When the car is truly lost, I need the loud horn, from across the parking lot. Not the beep from nearby.
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Can’t the Lexus app point you to where it is at in the lot?
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Originally Posted by Urlik
Can’t the Lexus app point you to where it is at in the lot?
It’s confusing and not as easy as old-school panic button honk.
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I have a remote horn button in my app. I do have an NX, but I assume the app layout is very similar across the different models with the Lexus Interface. What’s your app like?



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Good reason to carry the FOB. Sooner or later the digital key is going to let you down.
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On my 2023 RX, the layout in the Android app is very similar to that shown for the NX except that there is NO horn button.

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Maybe you should airtag the car and use the Apple "Find" feature to take you to it.
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Originally Posted by LilyTiger
I have a remote horn button in my app. I do have an NX, but I assume the app layout is very similar across the different models with the Lexus Interface. What’s your app like?

Yeah, that's what it SHOULD look like. But similar to the post above, mine looks like this with no horn button.

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Huh! Now that is very puzzling. I thought it would be an android thing but it’s the same for both the Apple and Android apps from the pictures I see.

I wonder if it’s a digital key thing. Do you both have digital key?

My only other possibility is it’s an RX thing which doesn’t make sense because it’s basically the same technology and the RX is supposed to be better than the NX.
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Originally Posted by LilyTiger
Huh! Now that is very puzzling. I thought it would be an android thing but it’s the same for both the Apple and Android apps from the pictures I see.

I wonder if it’s a digital key thing. Do you both have digital key?

My only other possibility is it’s an RX thing which doesn’t make sense because it’s basically the same technology and the RX is supposed to be better than the NX.
I have a 2023 RX350h with the Digital Key and the latest Apple iPhone with the latest iPhone software.
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Originally Posted by lexusnyca
Maybe you should airtag the car and use the Apple "Find" feature to take you to it.
That is a very smart idea! The AirTag would remember its last known location when it unpairs with your iPhone so, assuming you always carry your phone with you, you’d always be to see it’s last location when you leave your car.

Normally AirTags work by crowdsourcing so it would require other people being nearby the car. But since your car will be stationary this should suit you just fine.
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Weird. Finally got my new RX last night. I set up the app and see a horn on my Android version. See attached.
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Well this just got even more confusing lol. Is yours Canada or Japan made? Idk what else could be making it different.


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