Phone UI

The Phone UI is the in-world menu the player holds in their hand. It is the fastest way to trigger things without going through the TrafficTool window — calling the police, starting a race, changing your player model, or just reading a GTA-style minimap. Some features live only on the Phone: cheat-style shortcuts, the player-model changer, and the auto-zooming map. Everything on the Phone works in both driving and walking mode.

Where to find it

Hold the P key to open the Phone. Release it to close. The Phone is a modal overlay that does not pause the simulation — traffic keeps moving, chases keep going, and the Phone itself can be used while driving or while on foot in Walking Mode.

Calling other drivers and the police

The most-used entry on the Phone is the green call button. From there you can summon:

Call Police — spawns a police car directly behind you, already in pursuit mode. Tap the button more than once to spawn multiple units. Useful for setting up chase scenes on demand rather than waiting for a trigger.
Call Racer — produces a Race Car near you in Race Mode, ready to be challenged.
Call Car — calls your own player car. It spawns on a nearby road and drives itself to your current position, then stops there. Handy if you walked far from the car and do not feel like walking back.

Starting a race

The Phone’s message icon is the quickest way to start a Race Campaign mission. Tap the icon, pick Race, choose a difficulty, and the mission starts with no need to open the main window. The full details live in the Race Campaigns chapter.

GTA-style map with auto-zoom

One of the Phone’s unique features is its minimap. Unlike a static in-game map, this one behaves the way a GTA-style map does:

It centres on the player at all times.
It auto-zooms based on your speed — the faster you drive, the further out the map pulls, giving you a useful preview of what is coming. When you slow down or stop, it zooms back in.
It shows nearby points of interest: race markers, your own car when you are on foot, relevant in-world markers.

The map is primarily a driving aid, but it is also useful in Walking Mode to orient yourself after wandering off.

Changing the player model

The Phone contains the player-model changer — it is not exposed anywhere else in the UI. Pick a character and the walking figure the tool uses in Walking Mode is replaced with your selection. Other players see this change in Online Mode, so the model you pick is also your online appearance.

Models available depend on what is installed. Think of this as a wardrobe — one of the few explicitly cosmetic features in the tool.

Hidden cheat menus

The Phone also hosts a set of hidden cheat menus that exist only here — you will not find these features in the main TrafficTool window. They are designed to be fun rather than realistic and cover both the walking character and the car.

Walking-mode cheats

Super Speed. The walking character moves at an exaggerated, far-above-normal pace. Useful for crossing a whole map on foot without the pain of the default walking speed.
Moon Jump. Effectively lets the character fly in Walking Mode — jump behaviour is rewritten so you can ascend freely and float through the air.

Car cheats

Flight Mode. Above a certain speed, the car lifts off the road and can actually fly. Drop out of Flight Mode and it returns to normal driving. This is the most obvious “rules-off” feature in the tool.

These cheats generally work in singleplayer only. On multiplayer servers they are blocked to keep shared sessions consistent with normal physics and player speeds. A cheat menu entry may still be visible online but attempting to use it will have no effect.

The Phone works while walking

Holding P works identically in Walking Mode. You can stand on foot in a parking lot and call the police from the Phone, change your character model, or start a race — at which point the tool returns you to your car and the race begins.

Interaction with other features

Police Chases. Call Police is the instant-start mechanism for a chase.
Race Cars. Call Racer bypasses the “spot a Race Car in traffic” step and gives you one immediately.
Race Campaigns. Phone message icon is one of the three ways to start a race.
Walking Mode. The Phone is fully available while walking, and the player model picker is only accessible here.
Online Mode. Your picked player model is what other online players see.

Troubleshooting

Phone does not open: Confirm the P binding. Another mod may be using the same key.
Map is blank: The current track may not have map data available. Other Phone features still work.
Call Police does nothing: Confirm that Police Chases is enabled in Quick Settings and your active car list contains a police model.
Cannot change player model: No models installed beyond the default. This is an install-side issue, not a Phone bug.