By no means underestimate Elon Musk’s capacity 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 autos following Musk’s current public spat with Disney CEO Bob Iger. 

The information was first reported on social media earlier right now, together with accounts like Tesla Software program Replace on X. Affected house owners discovered that the app was lacking from the Tesla Theater after putting in the newest car replace which additionally contains quite a lot of extra NHTSA-backed safeguards for Tesla’s Degree 2 driver help system, Autopilot.

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Quite a few 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 autos throughout the nation.) Affected house owners now not see the Disney+ app which might be launched from the automotive’s Theater app by the motive force solely when a car is parked.

Not all house owners 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. House owners rapidly discovered that the app shortcut would re-appear in the event that they had been to navigate to the Disney+ streaming website 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 at the moment owns, amid considerations 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 autos as early as final week.

Reportedly, Tesla modified its thoughts from fully eradicating the app for all house owners to solely eradicating the app for house owners 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 is just not reachable to verify this, because it famously dissolved the corporate’s PR division in late 2019.

If the elimination of the app from Tesla’s autos has a hyperlink to the Musk and Iger dispute, the transfer definitely would not look nice for Tesla’s model picture. For starters, its CEO already performs a serious function in at the least 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 one in all Musk’s private firms and the publicly traded automaker, shareholders might look to Tesla’s board for solutions on whether or not or not this constitutes a battle of curiosity.