trunk HYUNDAI KONA 2023 Owners Manual

Convenient Features5-4
Smart Key
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Your HYUNDAI uses a smart key, which
you can use to lock or unlock a door (and
liftgate) and even start the engine even
just carrying the key.
1. Door lock
2. Door unlock
3. Panic
4. Remote start
Locking your vehicle (Touch sensor
type)
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1. Close all of the doors, the hood and the liftgate.
2. Make sure you have the smart key in your possession and touch either the
touch sensor on the door handle (the
engraved part) or press the Door Lock
button (1) on the smart key within 1
second.
3. The doors, hood and trunk are locked.
The chime will sound once and the
hazard warning lights will blink.

[ The door handle button will only
operate when the smart key is within
28~40 inches (0.7~1 m) from the
outside door handle.

[ Make sure the doors are locked by
pulling the door handle.

[ If you locked the door with the touch
sensor on the door handle, the doors
cannot be unlocked with the sensor
within 3 seconds.
ACCESSING YOUR VEHICLE

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Note that you cannot lock your vehicle
when you contact NFC antenna in the
smartphone to the door handle pad if
any of the following occurs:

[The Proximity / Smart Key is in the
vehicle.

[ The Engine Start/Stop button is in
ACC or ON position.

[ Any of the doors, hood and trunk is
opened.
If the smartphone digital key does not
work, please remove the smartphone
more than 4 inches (0.1 m) from the door
handle authentication pad and try it
again.
After unlock the door or start up the
vehicle with digital key, even though
the driver tries to lock the doors by the
central door lock switch, the door lock
will be once locked and immediately
released at the moment of door closed.
Start-up with Digital Key
1. Verify your smartphone is unlocked, then place it on
to the interior
authentication pad (wireless charger),
step on the brake and press the
Engine Start/Stop button.
2. After start-up, the digital key data will be automatically updated. It
takes 5 to 20 seconds, after that,
the smartphone can be go into the
wireless charging mode automatically.
Once the engine started, you can
remove the smartphone from the pad.
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[A] : Indicator light
[B] : Wireless Charging Pad (In-vehicle Authentication
Pad)
Information
After reconnecting the vehicle battery
power supply or charging the battery, it
may take time to operate due to remote
renewal of security information. When you
lock or unlock the door with NFC, please
contact and hold your smartphone on the
door handle until it works.
The solution allows for offline mode usage
when the mobile data connection of the
smartphone is weak. When you are in the
place where the mobile data connection
of your smartphone is available and
place your smartphone on the interior
authentication pad (wireless charger) and
start up your vehicle or contact the digital
key on the door handle to lock or unlock
the door, the remote renewal of security
information starts automatically. Even
though the engine is turned on, please
wait until the remote renewal process
is completed and wireless charger is
converted to charging mode.
Once the engine has started, if the doors
are opened, a message “Key not in vehicle”
will display on the instrument cluster, and a
chime will sound.

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CAUTION

[If metallic window tint was applied
to your vehicle, it may cause
bad Bluetooth connection or
performance degradation of the
digital key.

[ If multiple users operate the remote
control function simultaneously, the
connection between the digital key
and the vehicle might result in failed
commands. Please connect and
operate the remote control function
only the necessary user.

[ When using the remote control
operation to lock the vehicle, the
user should wait until the door lock
is confirmed (the chime sounds once
and the hazard warning lights blink).

[ The remote functions of the Digital
Key app enables the vehicle to be
controlled from a set distance. If
the digital key or the vehicle goes
beyond the operable distance, the
remote control function might be
disconnected or cancelled.

[ If the digital key (smartphone) is
connected with the vehicle for the
remote control, the driver with the
key goes far away from the vehicle,
the function might not work.

[ If the remote control operation
is executed where the mobile
connection is weak, Bluetooth
connection is poor due to several
Bluetooth devices or there is an
object such as metal or concrete, it
might be delayed or the operable
distance might decrease. You should
not cover the smartphone with your
hand or place other devices which
can cause frequency interference. It
may result in poor performance.

[ If the remote control function is not
available, please use NFC function to
lock or unlock the doors. Remote Start with Digital Key

[
When the shift lever of your vehicle
is in P (Park) and all of the doors
including trunk and hood is locked
and the vehicle is off, press the Door
Lock button in the Hyundai Digital
Key app then press the Remote Start
button within 4 seconds.
You can confirm the engine is on if the
hazard warning lights blinks two times
and the chime sounds.

[ If you want to turn off the engine,
press Remote Engine Stop. Air
Conditioner / Heating system
maintains the same status as when
you last used the vehicle.

[ Unless you put the registered digital
key(smartphone) on the interior
authentication pad (wireless charger)
when the remote start function is on,
the engine will turn off.

[ If you do not get on the vehicle within
10 minutes after the engine turns on,
the vehicle will turn off.
For more information, refer to the Engine
Start/Stop button in chapter 6.

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[1] : Door handle authentication pad
NFC door lock/unlock
You should contact digital key (card key)
t
o door handle authentication pad (1,
marked position near by the lock button)
of driver’s (or front passenger’s) outside
door for 2 seconds to lock or unlock the
doors. If the Two Press Unlock feature
is applied (press twice for unlocking),
driver’s seat door will be unlocked by
contacting the digital key (card key). In
this state, if you contact one more time
within 4 seconds, all the doors unlock.
Inoperable condition
If you do not contact the digital key (card
key) to the center of the door handle
authentication pad accurately., it may
not work. In addition, if you overlap and
use the key with NFC-enabled cards such
as transportation card or credit card, it
does not work.
Note that if you try to lock your vehicle
with digital key (card key) in following
cases, the doors will not be locked and
chime will sound for 3 seconds.

[ The Smart Key is in the vehicle.

[ The Engine Start/Stop button is in
ACC or ON position.

[ Any of the doors, hood and trunk are
open If the digital key (card key) does not work,
please detach the key around 4 inches
(0.1 m) from the handle authentication
pad and retry to contact. The card key
may be damaged by the impact. It
would not work properly if the key is
damaged. You should buy a new card
and register again. Long-time exposure
to high temperature may cause the card
key to malfunction. Please be careful not
to expose the key to prolonged direct
sunlight or high temperature.
After unlock the door or start up the
vehicle with digital key, even though
the driver tries to lock the doors by the
central door lock switch, the door lock
will be once locked and immediately
released at the moment of door closed.