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My wife and I were in her Hyundai Ioniq 6 a couple of months ago, and we both got out of the car. One of our dogs was in the back seat and jumped into the front.

Unfortunately Hyundai decided, in their wisdom, to put the door lock button (to lock all doors) in the console between the front seats. Exactly where Sally stepped when she came from the back.

Both my wife's keys and phone were still in the car.

30 minutes later, a local mechanic showed up. He gently pried the front door open with something like a whoopie cushion, and was able to poke the door lock button and open everything. It took him about 5 minutes.

Hyundai Canada can, of course, open the doors remotely, but when I called them they refused to and only offered to call CAA (the Canadian version of AAA, and the people Hyundia sub-contracts their roadside assistance to). I guess that makes sense considering the liability of remotely unlocking for someone whose identity they can't verify.

Wife has an Ioniq 9, and she shared her digital key with me via Google Wallet. Look into that as an option for next time, I'd assume Apple has a similar implementation.

That said, the digital key is much more finicky/failure prone than my Tesla's implementation, and has a backup keycard I keep in my wallet (but have never had to use). Generally, rebooting the phone fixes it for some amount of time, until it stops working again with no indication until I try to unlock her car.

Wow that's an interesting edge case.
This is why I really love Fords having the keypad to unlock the doors. More cars need this feature IMO.