The Holiday Update 2025 of Tesla is being received with a completely packed assortment of upgrades that are creative, smarter, safer, and enjoyable to listen to. It is one of the most feature-rich Tesla releases, with features such as an AI-controlled navigation control, light shows prepared to party, and even a SpaceX simulator. Let us explore all the new features under a few major themes.
Greater Intelligence in Driving, Navigation, and Car Awareness
This year’s update provides a visible improvement in Tesla’s intelligence and everyday functionality. Its headline feature is Grok with Navigation Commands (Beta). Being configured to Assistant, now Grok can create and update destinations on its navigation without using its hands, and so becomes a real digital co-pilot within the vehicle.
Even navigation is not spared, and it receives several long-awaited improvements:
- You can reorder favorites.
- Place Home or Work. Just drop a pin.
- See recommended destinations depending on the driving habits when parked.
Automatic HOV Lane Routing is a significant addition of convenience to commuters. The Tesla will now automatically choose the carpool lane when one is permitted to do so, based on occupancy, time windows, and local restrictions.
The Charge Limit per Location also provides a more personalized experience in charging by allowing you to store your own custom charges that will be used every time you visit. Moreover, some of the Superchargers now have a 3D Site Map with stall plan and live occupancy ( Available / Occupied / Down ).
🔥🎄 The Tesla 2025 Holiday Update (2025.44.25) will add driving data to Dashcam videos — a highly anticipated feature!
✅ Speed
✅ Steering wheel angle
✅ Accelerator and brake pedal status
✅ Turn signal status
✅ Self-driving state https://t.co/AKZ1WCr0Yi pic.twitter.com/EG5m5Pq2G8— The Tesla Newswire (@TeslaNewswire) December 6, 2025
At the same time, the level of safety transparency is also enhanced due to the improved Dashcam Viewer that displays speed, steering angle, turn signal state, pedal inputs, and self-driving mode on every clip. And to keep you out of forgetful situations, Tesla integrated into its system a Phone Left Behind Chime that will notify you when a device, particularly a phone key, is left in the cabin following a car exit.
New Interactive Games and Entertainment
The Tesla owners are fond of the playful nature of their car, and the update of the current year is full of flair in its nature. The first one is the Tesla Photobooth that transforms your cabin into a selfie-studio with beauty filters, stickers, emojis, and immediate sharing of the photo via the Tesla app. It is a very pleasant, surprisingly, addition to road trips or special moments.
Toybox is more updated and receives updates such as:
- Santa Mode – Now with snowmen, snowfall effects, a joyful holiday chim, and Santa Mode.
- Light Sync adds rainbow accent lights that pulse with your music in Rave Cave mode.
- Lock Sound: Light Cycle, a Tron-inspired door-lock sound.
Among the most anticipated games and space enthusiasts, the SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator is the first mention. Based on the actual NASA astronaut interface, this game requires players to control and dock a spaceship very carefully.
Spotify also offers music fans a better option, including easier and accelerated navigation of music and the possibility to add items to the playlist through search and scroll through the long playlists, albums, and libraries.
Individualization, Special Effects, and Light Spectacles
Visual magic would be incomplete in the Tesla Holiday Update. Jingle Rush Light Show has new features, new choreography, new controls, and the ability to program light shows up to ten minutes ahead of time. Better still, you are able to link several Teslas to perform in groups and adjust interior lights as well as the display colors.
Personalization takes a big leap with Custom Wraps and License Plates within the Paint Shop. The graphics are customizable, allowing owners to use preloaded graphics, use tints on their windows, or even use a USB drive to transfer their own unique graphics and make their on-screen Tesla avatar really unique.
