How to defeat ANNOYING auto-lock function?!

agreed, but i think you are stuck with it. i will defer to anyone who has a better answer. there maybe a possibility that it is a menu item, or tech stream option.

 

By default it is 60 seconds, it can changed to 30 or 120 seconds, or never.

If you have navigation, it is in the menus, otherwise a Toyota Dealer (or anyone else with Toyota's Techstream software) can change it.

https://www.toyota.com/t3Portal/document/om-s/OM47840U/pdf/OM47840U.pdf Page 526

 

I'm curious as to why you think the auto locking feature is annoying. We've had this feature on a number of Toyota and Lexus vehicles and it's never been a problem for us.

 

Different strokes. My wife loves to lock her car. I never do unless she is with me or I have something attractive to thieves in the car which is, by design, seldom. I figure they want something, make it easy to not destroy stuff while getting it. I do have the lock while moving feature implemented but I find it a slight pain because I frequently move the car out of the garage while waiting for her and then she comes out and can't get in until I unlock it.

I carry the keys always in the same pocket and can lock or unlock once I'm out of the car just by the feel of the buttons on the fob. Hand in pocket, press button, remove hand.

 

Have we told you that you can change this behavior?

https://www.toyota.com/t3Portal/document/om-s/OM47840U/pdf/OM47840U.pdf

Page 526 of the PDF lists:
(P.57, 72)
Time elapsed before automatic door lock function is activated if door is not opened after being unlocked
Default 60 seconds
Choices: OFF, 30 seconds , 120 seconds -OO

Page 527 of the PDF lists options:

Door lock (P. 74, 479)
Unlocking using a key
Driver’s door unlocked in 1-step, all doors unlocked in 2-step vs All doors unlocked in 1-step –OO

Speed-detecting automatic door lock function OFF vs ON OOO

Shifting the shift position to any position other than P locks all doors ON vs OFF OOO

Shifting the shift position to P unlocks all doors ON vs OFF OOO

Opening driver’s door unlocks all doors OFF vs ON –OO

Most of these are changeable by all owners, All are changeable if you have Navigation. Certainly, the Deal can change them if it gets confusing for you.

(there are a LOT of customization features, If you need to go to dealer, make all your choices the first time)

 

Or u can get Carista and change all the features u want to on ur phone...

 

Friends of mine were driving an unfamiliar, rented car across a very sparsely traveled section of, if I remember right, Wyoming, one crisp cold night, and found the night sky so beautiful they pulled off the road for a bit, got out, and gazed upward, shivering.

From behind them, a quiet automatic ksrchlnk.

After that, it was just a matter of avoiding hypothermia until another driver happened by, which eventually, finally, did happen.

-Chap

 

That rental car wasn't a Prius or anything else made by Toyota. Vehicles made by Toyota automatically lock only when the vehicle is unlocked with the remote and no doors are opened.

 

exactly lol, if u leave ur key in a keyless toyota it just makes beeping noises lol