Seat belt minder pop-up screen has changed it's behavior?

[El Kabong]

Like in the thread title, my seat belt minder pop-up seems to have changed the way behaves. I do have three dummy buckles plugged into the rear seat belt receivers because I have a dog bed platform thing covering the seats all the time.

Before: Seat belt minder pops up, stays for 60 seconds even after buckling drivers belt.
Now: Seat belt minder pops up and goes away within seconds of buckling the drivers belt.

I first noticed this yesterday, thought I was imagining things, but today I saw it again and tested it in various scenarios (cold start, minder pops up, buckle, it goes away quickly. Drive, put in park, unbuckle, minder comes up, re-buckle, it goes away quickly).

I did look to see if there was an update history but - nothing shows. Tell me I'm not going mad.

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[Kenv24]

My guess is one of your "dummy" buckles in the back seat was not inserted all the way....and now it is.

 

[HeyBales]

You match the 24MY then.

With all 3 backseat plugs in - if I start and I'm buckled, a flash of the screen. If I start just before (winter usage) - The screen goes to Ok when buckled and drops off quickly.

Nice someone finally discovered they made a change for no good reason, and sounds like put it back.

Especially since it's the 25/26MY's that have that Ok pop-up to keep the MyView - maybe they made that longer too!?

 

[El Kabong]

My guess is one of your "dummy" buckles in the back seat was not inserted all the way....and now it is.

It was showing all three rear seats as buckled when I installed them.

 

[HeyBales]

Ya - it's been confirmed 25/26 did this differently.
60 seconds was the timer from several posters.

Do you show an update was applied recently?
May take a pause for it to show up.

 

[El Kabong]

Did not show in the infotainment screen thingy... I will check again in a bit.

 

[El Kabong]

Nothing new shown in the history on the Ford owner website (nothing in the past 90 days).

Maybe one of the latches was not fully inserted in the back, I dunno. The dummy latches are Ford parts (extenders) I just cut the webbing off of them.

 

[nbmav]

I was reading this thread and have been quite annoyed by the reminder as I was in my '25. On that I used Forscan to turn it off but never really liked how it turned off all the warning dings when my seatbelt was actually off so I hadn't done the change on the '26 yet. Was considering whether I should buy some of the dummy clips but had a problem paying cash money for something like that and then I remembered, hey I have a 3D printer... found someone who had already created one and uploaded it. Grabbed that and 20 mins later had three of them plugged in the back seats.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6620902

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