🔴 [Media Report] Tesla Halloween Mode Update Full Analysis: Ghost Car, Trick or Treat Mode, and Four Themed Wraps

Summary:
The professional media outlet Not a Tesla App has broken down all the features of Tesla's Halloween Mode, which is released with software update 2026.38.3 and includes content such as the ghost car avatar, graveyard parking scene, Trick or Treat mode, four themed wraps, new lock sound, owl turn signal, and spooky light show.

Content Summary:

  • Halloween Mode is released with software update 2026.38.3, is located in the Toybox menu, can be enabled year-round, and includes two toggles: Ghost Costume and Trick or Treat; when enabled, the screen plays a short animation with a full moon and Halloween title, and the interior ambient lighting turns orange.
  • Ghost Costume, while parked, overlays the vehicle avatar with a white bedsheet with eye holes, and the background switches to a graveyard scene including a haunted house, full moon, dead trees, jack-o'-lanterns, and zombie hands reaching out of the dirt; Cybertruck has its own separate parking scene; while driving, the bedsheet flutters with vehicle speed, other vehicles emit green light, pedestrians become skeletons, trash cans become orange pumpkin faces, traffic lights become colorful pumpkins, and FSD and Autopilot paths and lane lines become purple.
  • Trick or Treat mode plays scary sound effects through the external speaker and flashes interior and exterior lights when visitors approach the parked vehicle; this mode keeps the cameras awake and consumes extra battery, and automatically turns off when the vehicle is shifted into Park or enters low-power mode; when enabled, Sentry Mode, the security alarm, and walk-away door lock will be disabled, and the two cannot be used at the same time.
  • Four new themed wraps are added: an orange pumpkin carving pattern version, a black base with white ghosts and bats version, a candy-covered "Trick or Treat" jack-o'-lantern version, and a dark textured red stripe version; a Halloween lock sound and owl turn signal chime are also added.
  • The spooky light show can be scheduled, and video records show Model 3 flashing exterior lights to music, opening and closing the trunk, and cycling interior lights, with better effects when multiple Teslas participate at the same time; Photobooth adds Polaroid-style Halloween frames and stickers; when speaking through the Tesla app's Boombox, the vehicle repeats it in a scary voice.
  • Halloween Mode is fully featured on vehicles equipped with the AMD infotainment unit; Intel platform vehicles only get the wraps and lock sound, and do not support the parking scene and extra Photobooth features.

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