Tesla Robotaxi App Adds iPad Support and Color-Matched Ride Tracking

Tesla’s latest Robotaxi app update makes the ride experience easier to follow across larger screens and while a phone is locked. Version 26.10.3 and later supports iPad, iPhone Duo and Android tablets and foldables, while iOS Live Activities now echo the color assigned to a ride. The changes focus on booking and finding a vehicle: the first gives the app more room to work with, and the second makes a Cybercab easier to identify when several are nearby.

A layout designed for larger displays

The Robotaxi app could already be installed on an iPad, but its interface simply enlarged the phone version. Tesla’s new support is intended to give larger devices a layout suited to their screens. That should make the booking and ride-tracking experience feel less like a stretched phone app, particularly on a tablet or the inner display of an iPhone Duo.

The update follows a redesign of Tesla’s main app for the same group of devices. That app placed a panels menu beside a larger vehicle visualization, giving owners another way to use the extra screen space. Tesla has also indicated that the layout will continue to develop. The Robotaxi app’s larger-screen support is a separate step, but it brings the ride service into the same broader shift toward interfaces built for more than a standard phone display.

For riders, the practical benefit is straightforward: trip details and controls have room to be presented on a bigger screen without relying on a phone-sized layout expanded to fit. The update’s stated scope covers iPad, iPhone Duo and Android tablets and foldables. The source identifies version 26.10.3 and later as the supported app versions; it doesn’t specify a separate rollout schedule by device or market.

Ride colors carry through to the lock screen

Each Robotaxi ride is assigned a color, which is also used by the Cybercab’s front RGB light bar. That color can help riders distinguish their assigned vehicle from other Cybercabs nearby. The app already showed riders which color to look for. Now, on iOS, the Live Activity card on the lock screen uses the same color, carrying the identifying cue from the app to the place a rider may glance while waiting.

Screenshots shared by Ethan McKanna show a purple outline around a Live Activity card, along with the Cybercab’s license plate and a progress bar indicating how close the vehicle is to the rider’s location. That combination gives the card a useful job beyond showing that a ride is underway: it brings together the vehicle identifier, its assigned color and an estimate of its approach in one glance.

The same color treatment appears in Robotaxi Live Activities on Apple Watch. That gives riders another way to check ride progress without opening the app, though the source doesn’t describe additional watch functions or changes to the information displayed there.

Live Activities adapt to iOS appearance

The visual update also supports Apple’s Liquid Glass interface and iOS theming. Tesla design studio member Wayne Sun said the card takes on colors from the user’s device theme, so it fits the surrounding interface. The result pairs a ride-specific color with a card that reflects the phone’s chosen appearance. That’s a small design detail, but it matters in a feature meant to deliver useful trip information at a glance.

The color system links the phone display to the Cybercab itself: the ride card and the vehicle’s light bar share a visual identifier. For riders meeting a vehicle in a busy pickup area, that continuity may be more useful than a purely decorative change. The progress bar and license plate shown in the shared screenshot add further clues, while the larger-screen layout offers a more suitable place to book and track a ride on tablets and foldable devices.

The Robotaxi app’s large-screen support arrives as Tesla’s service expands. The source reports more than 300 Cybercabs running in Austin and says additional cities are coming, without specifying a schedule. As the service reaches more riders and pickup areas, clear vehicle identification and trip tracking are likely to remain important parts of the app experience. For now, version 26.10.3 brings Tesla’s ride app to more device formats and makes its iOS ride card easier to connect with the Cybercab waiting outside.