Kia Connect

Kia Connect GmbH

About this app

[*Only compatible with cars equipped with Kia Connect. Please look for Kia Connect settings in your navigation screen.

**IMPORTANT: Do not lock the vehicle through the remote app door control while the FOB key is inside. Under certain circumstances, opening the vehicle door remotely may not be possible as long as the FOB key is inside]

The Kia Connect app has been developed to work in combination with a Kia car equipped with Kia Connect. Thanks to it, you will be able to benefit from remote services such as:

1. Vehicle remote controls
- Set the desired temperature in the car and activate the air conditioning or control the charging process remotely from the app (electric vehicles only). Lock and unlock the doors (all compatible models).

2. Vehicle status
- Offers an overview of key elements of your car’s status such as door locks, ignition, battery and charge level and supply you with a Monthly Vehicle Report giving an overview of your car usage.

3. Send destination
- Allows you to pre-plan and set your journey through the app for seamless use in the navigation system.

4. Find my car
- Keep track of your Kia and remember where you left it, thanks to the Find My Car.

5. Alert notifications
- You will be notified whenever a car alert is triggered and sent Diagnostic Notifications about the current status of your car.

6. My trips
- Provides a summary of your previous journey’s including average speed, distance driven and time in transit.

7. User Profile Transfer and Navi Linkage:

- You will be able to link your User Profile in your car to your Kia Connect App, so that you can check and change your vehicle settings on the app anytime. You can also back up your vehicle settings in the Kia Connect app and apply it to your car, as well as store your favorite addresses and send it to your car from the app.

8. Valet Parking Mode (currently only available on selected models):

- You will be able to monitor the vehicle status (vehicle location, driving time, driving distance and top speed) from the Kia Connect app while valet is driving the car. In parallel, valet can only access limited AVNT information.

9. Last Mile Navigation:

- Support you in continuing your navigation to the final destination on your smartphone after parking the car.

Ratings and reviews

Very poor app. 1. On startup the car status is always wrong. You'd think the app would fetch the car's current state on startup, but obviously not. 2. It can randomly revert to showing the range and % from when the car was last parked up rather than showing true values 3. App doesn't show if the car is 'on'. Seriously? 4. Doesn't show the car's outside temperature. 5. Zero colour in the app makes it very boring and unintuitive. The list goes on and on. Lovely car. Terrible app.

A nice app .... but very limited in functionality and cosmetic appearance. It should be relatively easy to add 'remote start' and heating/comfort controls to the menu as are available in other manufacturer apps in UK. Can we please have these on a future update? The app appearance is plain, bland and dowdy. A welcome addition would be a more attractive layout and presentation.

Really useful app, a few niggles that would be good to have fixed. I live in the UK but the app seems to assume a left hand drive vehicle, so the opened doors do not correspond to those indicated in the app. I can't see an option to alter this. Also, the unlocked alerts are not cancelled when the car is being driven. Often I get an alert that the car is unlocked after I have been driving for a while. Of course it's unlocked, I'm driving it! This is still an issue despite the October update.

What's new

Several improvements for a better App performance and a few bug fixes.