If you just climbed into an XPeng G6 and reached for the door to adjust the mirrors, you’re not the first to come up empty-handed. There is no mirror switch on the door. No joystick, no L/R selector, nothing. Every mirror adjustment on the G6 goes through the centre screen and the steering wheel — and once you know the exact path, it’s a quick job. Here is that path, plus the three things that trip up new owners.
Step 1: Park first
Do this while parked. Adjusting mirrors means looking at the centre screen while your hands are on the wheel buttons — that is not a driving activity. Several reviewers (thedriven.io, fleetnews, autocar) all landed on the same complaint: getting to the mirror menu forces your eyes off the road. Set your mirrors before you pull away.
Step 2: Open the mirror menu
On the centre display (CID), tap the Car icon → Drive → Side mirrors. That activates mirror-adjustment mode. This path comes from the XPeng G6 User Guide (Singapore edition); on the 2026 refresh the menu may have moved slightly with the new system, so if you don’t see it, check under Drive or the vehicle settings on your car.
Step 3: Adjust with the steering wheel
Once the mode is active, the steering-wheel controls become your mirror joystick:
- Left mirror: the left-side steering-wheel buttons — the left/right buttons swing the mirror left and right, the up/down scroll roller tilts it up and down.
- Right mirror: the right-side controls (next to the voice-assistant button) — same idea, left/right buttons and up/down roller.
Adjust the left mirror, then the right. When you’re done, the mode exits on its own — or just tap elsewhere on the screen.
The voice shortcut (when it works)
You can also get there by voice: say something like “Hey Xpeng, open mirror adjustment”, then use the steering-wheel rollers to move the mirrors. Two caveats from real-world testing:
- Don’t say “wing mirror”. TechRadar’s reviewer tried it and the car didn’t understand the term — it took several rephrasings to land on the right menu.
- Voice recognition is flaky. UK owner-review site GreenCarGuide found the most reliable recipe was “ask the voice assistant to open mirror adjustment, then use the wheel rollers” — and noted the assistant sometimes just replies that it doesn’t know how that works. Treat the voice route as a convenience; the screen path above is the reliable fallback.
Three things new owners should know
1. The wheel buttons are borrowed, not dedicated
On the newer system, the steering-wheel buttons only control the mirrors temporarily — a few seconds after you stop using them, they revert to their normal functions (thedriven.io, August 2026 review). So if a mirror stops responding halfway through your adjustment, you haven’t broken anything: once the buttons have reverted, reopen the Side mirrors menu and adjust again. Older cars on the previous system may behave slightly differently.
2. Reverse auto-dip is standard (Australia) — folding is a separate thing
On the Australian 2026 spec, the mirrors tilt down automatically in reverse on both the driver and passenger sides, and the mirrors are power-folding and heated (CarExpert Australia 2026 spec sheet). Separately, during automatic parking the car will fold the mirrors itself to squeeze through tight spots (Straits Times). These are listed features, not options on that spec — specs vary by market, so if your car behaves differently, check with your dealer rather than hunting for a setting that may not exist on your trim.
3. Mirrors have position memory — the fine print is missing
The spec sheet lists “power-folding heated side mirrors with position memory.” What no public documentation we could find explains is exactly how the mirror memory is saved or recalled — whether it follows a driver profile or needs a manual save. We’re stating that honestly rather than guessing: if two people share the car, verify the mirror positions when you swap drivers, and save a preset if your car offers one.
One more mirror: the interior one
Higher trims get a digital streaming rear-view mirror that switches back to a conventional mirror at a touch; base trims (such as the Singapore G6 Air) have a plain traditional mirror (asiaone, changinglanes.ie). If your rear view looks like a video feed, that’s normal — tap it to flip back.
The bottom line
Car icon → Drive → Side mirrors → steering-wheel buttons. That’s the whole ritual. Skipping the door switch feels odd the first time, but the replacement is genuinely fast once it’s muscle memory — and the voice route is a decent backup for passengers who can’t find the menu. Just don’t try it at 60 km/h.
Sources: XPeng G6 User Guide (Singapore edition) for the menu path and wheel mapping; thedriven.io (Aug 2026), fleetnews, autocar, TechRadar and GreenCarGuide for real-world behaviour; CarExpert Australia 2026 spec sheet for reverse-dip, folding and memory; Straits Times for auto-park folding; asiaone/changinglanes.ie for the streaming mirror; owner walkthrough Xplore Xpeng “XPENG VEHICLE SETTINGS pt5”. The manual edition is about two years old — menu details on the newest software may differ; your car is the final authority.
Related reading:
- MG4 One-Pedal Driving: How to Turn It On — another useful setting buried in the menus.
- BYD Atto 3 Screen Frozen? How to Reboot It — when the screen that controls everything stops responding.
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