Tesla Hides Disney+ App Following Elon Musk’s Spat With Bob Iger

By no means underestimate Elon Musk’s capability to be very, very mad. 

In a slightly controversial transfer, Tesla’s newest vacation replace has seemingly eliminated the shortcut to launch the in-car Disney+ app from some automobiles following Musk’s recent public spat with Disney CEO Bob Iger. 

The information was first reported on social media earlier right now, together with accounts like Tesla Software Update on X. Affected homeowners discovered that the app was lacking from the Tesla Theater after putting in the newest car replace which additionally contains a lot of further NHTSA-backed safeguards for Tesla’s Level 2 driver assistance system, Autopilot.

A lot of customers on X have confirmed that they’re lacking the shortcut following the set up of this yr’s Vacation replace (which continues to be rolling out to automobiles throughout the nation.) Affected homeowners now not see the Disney+ app which will be launched from the automotive’s Theater app by the driving force solely when a car is parked.

Not all homeowners are lacking the app, nevertheless. It seems that solely those that haven’t launched the Disney+ app beforehand are literally lacking the shortcut within the Tesla theater.

It could additionally seem that the app itself is not deleted from the automotive, however is as an alternative hidden from the Theater. Homeowners rapidly discovered that the app shortcut would re-appear in the event that they have been to navigate to the Disney+ streaming web site within the in-car browser.

This has raised an eyebrow from some who’ve questioned if the elimination of the app shortcut is a bug, or if it was an intentional transfer following the general public “go eff your self” second the place Musk particularly known as out Iger for dropping promoting on X, which Musk presently owns, amid concerns about rising hate speech on the platform. 

Fellow EV-centric publication Electrek claims the transfer was intentional and cites an unnamed supply who says that Tesla gave Disney a heads-up that its app can be faraway from Tesla automobiles as early as final week.

Reportedly, Tesla modified its thoughts from fully eradicating the app for all homeowners to solely eradicating the app for homeowners who haven’t launched it beforehand. Once more, it is not clear if this was an intentional elimination, or if it is a bug. Tesla shouldn’t be reachable to substantiate this, because it famously dissolved the company’s PR department in late 2019.

If the elimination of the app from Tesla’s automobiles has a hyperlink to the Musk and Iger dispute, the transfer actually would not look nice for Tesla’s model picture. For starters, its CEO already performs a significant position in a minimum of six different firms—CEO of SpaceX, proprietor and CTO of X, founding father of xAI, founding father of The Boring Firm, co-founder of Neuralink, and president of the Musk Basis.

Now with a possible hyperlink between considered one of Musk’s private firms and the publicly traded automaker, shareholders could look to Tesla’s board for solutions on whether or not or not this constitutes a battle of curiosity.