How to Upload a Tesla Wrap

Finding your wraps on the touchscreen

However the file arrived, the car exposes it in the same place: App Launcher → Toybox → Paint Shop, then the Wraps tab. Select a wrap there to apply it, or switch back to your factory paint. Paint Shop is a visualisation on the car's own rendering of your vehicle — it changes what the touchscreen shows, not the paint.

If you chose Upload & Apply Wrap in the app, the car will already be showing it by the time you get in. Upload Only just parks it in that list.

Method 2: the USB fallback

USB still works and is the only option if your car is not yet on 2026.26, or if you want to load several wraps at once. The rules are unforgiving and the car gives almost no feedback, so follow them literally.

1. Format a USB drive as exFAT, FAT32, MS-DOS FAT, ext3 or ext4. NTFS will not be read — this is the single most common USB failure, because it is the Windows default.
2. At the root of the drive, create a folder named exactly Wraps. Capital W, no trailing space, not nested inside another folder.
3. Copy your PNGs into Wraps. Up to 10 files, each under 1 MB, each with a filename of 30 characters or fewer using only letters, numbers, underscores, dashes and spaces.
4. Do not put map data or firmware update files on the same drive. A drive carrying those is claimed for a different purpose and your wraps will be ignored.
5. Eject the drive properly, then plug it into the glovebox USB port — on most models that is the data port, and the one owners report working. Tesla does not document which port reads wraps, so try the console ports if nothing appears.
6. Open Toybox → Paint Shop → Wraps. Your files appear alongside anything you uploaded from the app.

Which method should you use?

Use the app for one-off designs and iteration — the 3D preview alone saves a round trip to the car every time an edge lands badly across a door seam. Use USB when you want to load a batch, when you are working on a car that has not had the update yet, or when you want to keep a permanent library on a stick you can move between vehicles. They are independent pools, so you can do both: 10 from the app and 10 from USB.

If the wrap does not appear

Silent failure is the norm here — the car rarely explains itself. Nearly every case comes down to the folder name, the drive format, the file size, or an illegal character in the filename. We wrote out the full diagnostic order in Tesla wrap not showing up. If the problem is the file rather than the transfer, check it against the size and dimension rules, or start over from the official template in the Tesla wrap maker, which exports at the right size with a filename already sanitised.