diff --git a/selfdrive/modeld/models/dmonitoring_model.onnx b/selfdrive/modeld/models/dmonitoring_model.onnx
index 24234d4c5..dc621bed0 100644
--- a/selfdrive/modeld/models/dmonitoring_model.onnx
+++ b/selfdrive/modeld/models/dmonitoring_model.onnx
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-oid sha256:5e8de9dc7df306700cce9c22b992e25b95a38f894c47adaea742a9cf8ba78e1a
+oid sha256:7aff7ff1dc08bbaf562a8f77380ab5e5914f8557dba2f760d87e4d953f5604b0
 size 7307246
diff --git a/selfdrive/monitoring/helpers.py b/selfdrive/monitoring/helpers.py
index 91ddaaa9c..0b54504b6 100644
--- a/selfdrive/monitoring/helpers.py
+++ b/selfdrive/monitoring/helpers.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class DRIVER_MONITOR_SETTINGS:
     self._EYE_THRESHOLD = 0.65
     self._SG_THRESHOLD = 0.9
     self._BLINK_THRESHOLD = 0.865
-    self._PHONE_THRESH = 0.68
+    self._PHONE_THRESH = 0.5
 
     self._POSE_PITCH_THRESHOLD = 0.3133
     self._POSE_PITCH_THRESHOLD_SLACK = 0.3237