The manual on page 241 has a table of customizable features. One column is the multimedia display, the next is multi-info display, and the last is dealer. There are several dealer only features that may or may not be useful. I imagine a trip to the dealer would do it-maybe the first one would be free, but if you changed your mind, etc, I bet they would charge for subsequent visits. Does Carista cover all these dealer only custom features? Thanks. edit: corrected original post, the table actually starts on page 541 of the 2026 manual.
Can you post a photo of page 40? Carista doesn't do much other than try to trick you into a monthly subscription with contrived and mostly worthless "features." Here at Priuschat we want to figure out how to access dealer only features so DIY folks can avoid their money making scams. Specifically Toyota moved to the newer Global Techstream (GTS / GTS+) platform for recent vehicles, and dealer-level functions in 2024 and are increasingly gated behind the GTS+ / dealer tooling, subscriptions and authenticated interfaces — so the old “download hacked Techstream + cheap VCI” approach that worked for many older Prius will be of limited use. Some professional scan-tool makers (Autel, Launch, OTC, LAUNCH GTS bundles) advertise “OE-level” Toyota support, but true authenticated programming usually requires dealer credentials or a paid OEM subscription. If you'd like to help us figure this out please research the offerings of scan-tool makers and try them out and report back. Also find out about GTS+ subscription options or legitimate J2534 packages (and confirm NASTF/registration requirements). Also see if you can find independent shops that advertise GTS+ access and report back on that too! As in we want to help people avoid trips to the Toyota Stealerships as much as possible and we need everyone's help to figure this out. Maybe @ChapmanF has some thoughts on the subject?
Worth checking if dealer adjusted settings "evaporate" if the 12 volt battery's disconnected. And if so, look into memory savers.
Technical library access - including use of GTS+ - is 5 euros for an hour or 25 euros for a day in Europe. Seems pretty reasonable to me, at least compared to whatever a dealer would charge you for anything. Probe I use with it is the Tactrix OpenPort 2.0 - don't recall what I paid for it, but it's something like $170. Not prohibitive on the scale of car expenses, I think. And you get the confidence that you can do almost anything to the car that the dealer can. Exception might be not being able to get access to some software/ECU updates.
Anyone got a list of Gen 5 features? I can check them out in Techstream and pull the PIDs so we can add support in the Dr. Prius App.
