Anybody with a 2025 Yukon find that sometimes it takes multiple presses on the garage door opener for it to activate the door? Sometimes mine works the first time (which it should do) and other times it might take three presses/taps. My older Homelink systems never once had this issue.
2025 Yukon garage door opener
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genestoy
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Yes, it uses your location programmed into it when first set up so the buttons are not visible until you get near your garage door(s). This is supposed to be "better" than the Homelink but I have to strongly disagree with that statement!
WalleyeMikeIII
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FWIW even the homelink in my 2022 sometimes requires several pushes to open my Lift Masters. I am wondering if it is bad transmitter placement within the vehicle.
I always check the app once it’s closed, which has never failed. As long as there is internet at my house, I can check the status with my iPhone.
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Wife's 2025 Tahoe does the same thing, sometimes takes a few presses but more annoyingly as you already mentioned is when it takes a while for the icon to pop-up and she is just waiting, usually to open the garage, it is almost always there to close when leaving.
My truck's Home Link (2013 Ram 1500) takes a couple of button presses to activate, and that has been the case with every opener we've had, 4 different units over the past 12 years. We didn't have any issues with her old 2016 Explorer's Home Link system on any of them until a wire in the visor chaffed and we ended up just disconnecting the visor so it wouldn't take out a whole plethora of other functions when the fuse popped.
Wife's 2025 Tahoe does the same thing, sometimes takes a few presses but more annoyingly as you already mentioned is when it takes a while for the icon to pop-up and she is just waiting, usually to open the garage, it is almost always there to close when leaving.
My truck's Home Link (2013 Ram 1500) takes a couple of button presses to activate, and that has been the case with every opener we've had, 4 different units over the past 12 years. We didn't have any issues with her old 2016 Explorer's Home Link system on any of them until a wire in the visor chaffed and we ended up just disconnecting the visor so it wouldn't take out a whole plethora of other functions when the fuse popped.
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Yes, I’ve experienced this button lag/not registering in my 2025 Yukon. They should have just kept the old button system in the overhead console. Never a problem with it, and very simple. They didn’t even substantially change the overhead console for the better. It looks like more or less the space where the Homelink buttons were was just changed to more surround trim plastic.
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The new touchscreen remote link is awful compared to the ultra reliable rubber button on the overhead. Takes many many touches and you need to take your eyes off the road to fart around with it. I get the touchscreen revolution but this is a step backwards.
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I'm going to have to jump on the bandwagon, and say that yeah, it's not nearly as great as having the old physical buttons. I've tried barely tapping it, and I've tried long pressing it, doesn't seem to matter. It works about 50% of the time. Like anything else it would be great if it worked but this appears to be a step backward unless they can figure out and upgrade the software....GM ...Are you listening?
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I have the same issues with multiple pushes. Definitely annoying and much preferred the physical buttons. My wife's Audi has a similar feature where the Homelink is touch screen, and it doesn't seem to have these issues.
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I have since learned by messing with it, is that if you just tap it, and I mean barely tap it, it actually seems to respond better than if you reasonably push it.....If You hold the button too long to go up or down, I think that actually confuses it.
A somewhat duplicate thread:
www.tahoeyukonforum.com
2025 Yukon Garage Remote Programming
I picked up my 2025 Yukon AT4 on Monday and programmed the garage remotes with no problems. Thursday morning they worked when I left the house, but would not work when I got home. They popped up on the screen when I got home, but they would not open the garage door. I tried to delete the remotes...
www.tahoeyukonforum.com
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I have it on two vehicles and basically hate it. The days of physical buttons are dwindling. I have gotten used to it and understand it. There does seem to a technique. Some else mentioned the barely tapping and that is where I am at.
Glad to hear some are finding a way to make it work, as maddening as it is. Buttons and switches are certainly disappearing at an alarming rate now that screens are more cost effective. Plus, manufacturers are pushing software defined vehicles and they cant do that with physical buttons. The most frustrating aspect is that you lose control of almost everything in some newer vehicles with a complete screen failure.
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Not much help for the Yukon, but on my Tahoe I used a 3M Velcro strip and placed my garage remote underneath the drivers temp knob. It’s completely out of site, buttons are easily accessible, and I don’t mess with the screen.
Agree, I shouldn’t have to do this, but it’s a simple solution to the problem.
Agree, I shouldn’t have to do this, but it’s a simple solution to the problem.
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I'm just going to say it again after using it for a few weeks. Barely tapping it seems to be the solution...... It works 98% of the time versus about 50% of the time when I was actually trying to finger it to death....
Has anyone figured out the logic behind how the system orders the numbered buttons? For example, we set up three overhead door operators as openers 1, 2, and 3 in the system, which matched how the Liftmaster remote was set up and how the doors are logically oriented on our house. On the Yukon's screen, the get scrambled and show up as 3, 1, 2. We tried re-programming the doors into different numbers and the order of buttons on the screen appeared to just be at random.
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