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Syn3 Updater

Prepare a USB drive to update the Ford SYNC 3 system in your car. Pick your region, SYNC release and maps, and Syn3 Updater downloads the packages, checks them, copies them to the drive and writes the autoinstall.lst / reformat.lst the head unit needs.

This is v3 of CyanLabs’ Syn3 Updater: a cross-platform rewrite (Windows, macOS, Linux) on .NET 10 and Avalonia.

Install

Download the file for your system from the Releases page. To check a download, compare its checksum with SHA256SUMS: sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS. Replace <v> below with the version (for example 3.0.0).

Windows

Download Syn3Updater-<v>-win-x64.zip (win-arm64 on ARM PCs), extract it and run Syn3Updater.exe. It asks for Administrator rights, which it needs to format USB drives. There is no installer: delete the folder to remove it. The app is not code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn: click More info, then Run anyway.

macOS

Download Syn3Updater-<v>-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple Silicon) or -macos-x64 (Intel), open it and drag Syn3 Updater onto Applications. The first time,…