If it's anything like my 17 plate, all doors will unlock If drivers door is opened first.
My partner always opens her door first and the rear doors are still locked.

 

Nope, rear door still locked when I get out and I’m the only one in the car.

 

Same for me, rear door does not unlock automatically. I have Auto Hold on all the time so I dont shift to P at all to unlock the doors and also engine is not switched off every time.

 

Check settings in dash or head unit depending on where they are in Sportage. As there are different settings for the doors

 

There are 3, you can also find them in the app, picture below.
Auto Unlock on vehicle off
Auto Unlock on shift to park
and off.

Only Auto Unlock on vehicle off works as expected every time, but isn’t that useful
Off leaves every door locked
Auto Unlock on shift to park, sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t and I’ve no idea why it sometimes doesn’t.

I’m hoping I’m doing something wrong or in the wrong order, but I’ve no idea what.

 

It would seem you’ve exhausted all possibilities (according to the manual). I reckon your only recourse is to get used to using the unlock button on the drivers door. I’m assuming you‘ve not activated the ‘child locks’ on the rear doors?

 

No, no child locks, its access from outside I referring to, so just locks. If you’re inside the car no issues just pull the handle and you’re out.
The frustrating thing is the unlock on shift to park should work for me but is inconsistent, so I hoping it is something I’m doing wrong. Maybe like the 17 plate comment, there is an unwritten order things need to be done in.
Should be such a simple thing.

I’ll try changing the auto lock setting, illogical expecting how the car locks to impact how it unlocks but you never know

 

It does seem to tie in with what the setting says in Kia Connect……..

In Kia Connect it definitely says “Selects the condition when all doors will unlock automatically.”. So I would expect the doors to lock when shifted out of ‘Park’ with the engine running.
As you can see from the screenshot, I have mine set to unlock on engine off.
My thought was that if you’re stopped in traffic and you decided to select “P” to avoid dazzling drivers behind with your brake lights, then you would be unlocking all the doors, which could lead to some opportunist ‘scrote’ opening up any door and grabbing anything left on the seat.

 

That’s my view, too.

 

Actually I’ve just noticed that the entry you highlighted above, and the one above it in the manual are identical 🤷‍♂️!!!!!

Surely they should be different, and the lower one should surely read “doors will be unlocked automatically when the vehicle is shifted into P (Park)”, not locked and shifted out of P!

 

Actually I’ve just noticed that the entry you highlighted above, and the one above it in the manual are identical 🤷‍♂️!!!!!
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Surely they should be different, and the lower one should surely read “doors will be unlocked automatically”, not locked !

Correct - trouble is it only unlocks sometimes, for me anyway.
And that’s probably when something else happens out of sequence, only I can’t figure out what that something else is.

 

Is car turned off?

 

I think what I might do is temporarily change my option in Kia Connect to ”Auto Unlock on Shift to P”, just to see if mine behaves the same as you’re saying that yours does……or otherwise!

 

Mine unlocks all doors via key or door button, locks all via key or door button, do not lock when driving as I do not like that feature, when I stop I just press stop/start button, engine goes off and car goes to park itself and EPB engages fully.
This cars a September 2023 and came like that, as did our 2022 one. No doubt my 2024 one will as well when it arrives.

 

Mines a 2024 according to the vin.
Tried it…
Pressed start / stop, engine stopped, EPB came on, stepped out of the car - back door locked

 

I have noticed this not unlocking of doors other than drivers door. Mine is set to auto lock when driving and to unlock when P is selected. I think where the issue is is that turning off the car does automatically put the car in P, but crucially the driver did not select P. I have tried selected P before key off and the other doors do unlock as expected. Seems a pedantic of Kia to require driver to actually select P rather than the car being in P to make the doors unlock. Give it a try and see if it is the same for you.

 

Same here.

 

Just by chance I got caught out by this at lunch time. Set to unlock when P is selected and has worked perfectly, but today I stopped the car and switched the engine off. EPB engaged and both front doors opened from the inside, but the rear doors could not be opened from the outside. Lesson learnt, always put car in P before switching off.

 

This drives my wife nuts. I regularly drop her off and she gets out and can't open the back doors to get her stuff.
If I am dropping off with the car stopped or in 'Auto Hold' then I use the unlock button on the drivers door to allow access to the rear doors. Seems odd to have to go into full switch off and park, and yes, I know its safer but I'm just not used to it.

 

You don’t have to switch off just select park.

 

I think this is settable in settings, can't check today so working from a dodgy memory...

Ignore... I set Auto unlock to operate on Vehicle Off... Under settings.. Vehicle.. Door...

 

I set auto lock off don't see the point of it.

 

Agree, If I was driving in an area I deemed risky (Barcelona) springs to mind, I would lock doors manually from button on drivers door, but not a fan of Auto Locking.

 

Although I tend not to frequent dodgy areas (apart from this forum, of course), I have set my doors to auto-lock above 15kph/9mph and unlock when the car is switched off. I assume the lock switch on the door will override the settings if required.