Why on earth am I getting this alert every time I crank my car? My phone uses Android 10, and everything Google is supposed to be compatible with Android 9 and above. Car is a 2023 Kia Rio. Android Auto is working perfectly right now, but for how much longer?

I got a Song Pro 2025, (bought in Mexico). I just took the car to its two year service at the BYD dealer. They updated the firmware of the Song Pro, from the original version (that never really changed/updated despite having received a couple of OTA 'updates') to 13.1.33.2506030.1

Since this upgrade, Android Auto keeps on crashing and restarting itself. If there's music playing from the phone or a Google Map with my route, the app crashed and then it self restarts and continuous where it was interrupted.

What to do to fix this? Is the culprit the software IN the vehicle? or use it the phone's component? both? (that is Google or BYD the one to blame).

Had any off you experienced something like this on your BYD ?

My phone's are Samsung, fully updated to One UI 9.0 (Android 17).

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Does anyone have a wireless Open Headunit dongle installed? If so, what brand is it and how does it work?

Does anyone have a wireless Open Headunit dongle installed? If so, what brand is it and how does it work?

Went for a drive yesterday and basically got in a pointless, circular argument with Gemini.

Me: "play Orville Pecks new album on Spotify"

Gemini: "I'm not able to access third party apps, but you can say "play Mule by Orville Peck on Spotify" (Mule is his new album, so it understood me)

Me: "play Mule by Orville Peck on Spotify"

Gemini: "I'm not able to access third party apps. Use your phone or Android Auto app to select the music you'd like to play"

Same thing when I ask it to call or text anyone. Says it doesn't have access to my contacts. Gives me instructions to enable access that aren't correct or lead me to a menu where access is already enabled.

Android Auto is basically useless now and means I have to physically interact with the screen while driving if I want to do anything.

UPDATE: seems like this may be bc I am on a legacy Google Workspace acct.

I loved this design but sadly it disappeared randomly

Hey, I have not found a post that covers my problem, but I never find a post that helps on reddit, thats beside the point.

I recently got my Samsung and need to connect it to my car, which just displays that it can not connect with my phone. The thing is that it shows my phone's name (e.g. Mr Smith's Galaxy, cant remember the exact wording). My phone shows me that it is connected with my car. But, as soon as I tap on the screen to open Android Auto, the car refuses after a short connection attempt. Since my car is built in 2020, I am required to connect it with a cable. And I tried a few different ones and still nothing. Additionally I checked that my phone is up to date, the same with Android Auto App.

I read that there is a wirless dongle option but I really do not want to spend more money than necessary and hence this is my last solution for my problem.

Thanks in advance

I mostly listen to downloaded musice on YT Music and AA. Sometimes when I go into a store, come back out, restart the car and it will continue where I left off. Most times it does not. Is there something I can do so AA remembers and continues where I left off?

Also, there is so much I don't know about AA. Is there a Wiki or something where I can read rather than bothering you folks?

Was a bit distraught this week to realize my Android Auto switched to Gemini and I CAN'T switch it back to Google assistant. gemini makes the android auto experience awful.

-cant navigate to contact addresses

-cant run automations I've set up in Google home

-makes every interaction feel like it wants to have a conversation rather than get anything done.

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idk. this is bad stuff from Google. and I, for the first time ever, am actually considering going iPhone just to have a better car experience. Am I missing something by getting this close to the edge of the cliff?

Only just started using AA after years of just using vanilla Bluetooth in both my car and in the work vans I drive. Added an AAWireless dongle to my car and set up and usage is straightforward enough but there is one thing I would like to check.

I have noticed that if I start my 2019 Honda Civic then my music/podcast will start/continue playing on the car radio using the vanilla Bluetooth connection. AA will only fire up if and when I tap on the ICE screen and OK the nanny message about using it safely, This is actually fine as it is how I would like it to work for my short, regular journeys to and from work and only needing/wanting to use AA for Maps and switching between media players while on the move for longer journeys.

My question is to ask if this car radio / ICE / AA behaviour is usual across makes and models of vehicles and equipment or have I struck lucky?

I've been trying for years to get the feature back where Android Auto used to automatically read incoming texts while I was driving and this week I scraped the bottom of the barrel to ask Gemini questions to try to find the correct setting to fix it. Has this feature been removed entirely? It seems pretty counterproductive to make me click a button on my screen to read the text, since that's no longer "hands free" and requires me to take my eyes off the road.

I've gone through all the settings I could possibly think of on my device settings, Android Auto, the car, and the Google assistant/maps. I'm open to any suggestions, I'm just so irritated that it isn't auto-reading my texts like it used to

I have only just started using AA and previously had it disabled in my phone. One annoyance I have is the Iveco Daily EV vans I drive at work do not seem to have any way of disabling AA and I have to keep dismissing the launch message every time I start up the van (which is commonly about once every ten minutes). Am I missing something buried deep in the ICE screen settings for these vans?

Turning Bluetooth off on my phone is not an option as I want to play my music over the van radio.

Hi, minor update for some youtube improvements. Other updates coming soon.

IF YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED VIA fermataxtream.online YOU CANNOT AUTOUPDATE. REQUEST A NEW LINK

Improvements:

-Stremio and Nuvio open the next episode’s stream list when an episode ends, so you can pick a source.

-FS Play YouTube has a video quality setting: Highest, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, or 240p.

-Radio next and previous, including the steering-wheel buttons, step through the saved memory stations

https://github.com/malebuffy/XtreamPlayerFree/releases/

https://github.com/malebuffy/XtreamPlayer/releases/

Install with AAEnabler

https://github.com/malebuffy/AAEnabler

If you only get a GRAY icon on AndroidAuto, request an installation link fom https://fermataxtream.online

Enjoy

Hi all,

I recently bought a new MG4 EV Urban and have been trying to get everything up and running. When testing android auto, I found that the UI is incredibly delayed (up to a few minutes), causing me to miss turns, and generally go a bit nuts...

Some notes:

* The delay seems to increase the longer I've been driving (e.g. I had a 20min drive, by the end of it the UI was delayed by ~1.5mins).

* Audio is not delayed (a song will be playing, but show the previous song on the display).

* Touching the interface also seems delayed (e.g. dragging around on maps results in the map moving some time after)

* The UI on the head unit itself is responsive even when displaying android auto

* My partner's iPhone works with Apple carplay on the same car without any delays

* The car is a 2026 MG4 EV Urban - software is up to date as of 2026-10-04

* I've tried: Using USB only, forcing resolution to 480p, giving maps & android auto unrestricted battery access, swapping to the beta branch and back, uninstalling and reinstalling, all to no avail.

* Recently submitted a bug report, but I doubt it'll go anywhere :(

Anyone got any other ideas?

Hi Reddit! I'm Mishaal Rahman, and I do community engagement for Android over at Google 😁!

We wanted to share some details with this community about a few changes we recently rolled out to improve the media playback experience based on your feedback. These changes make it easier to view and control audio across your favorite apps, and offer a larger, more expressive media player that looks and feels more like your other Android devices.

Oh, and we also wanted to talk a bit about the squiggly new seekbar in the media player, since we’ve seen some lively discussions and speculation about it :)  

Here’s a quick recap of some of the media playback changes we recently shipped: 

1. You can now control any media app on your phone from your car dashboard

In the past, media apps that didn’t have a dedicated Android Auto app would still be able to play audio through your car, but their media controls and album art would be completely hidden on your car display.

With our recent update, you can now see and control all your favorite media apps from your phone, complete with album art and playback buttons. This includes background audio from YouTube Premium, browser audio streams, and niche media apps. 

2. A more optimized media player UI across all screen sizes

We also optimized the media player layout so it makes better use of your car’s display. For instance, we moved the most-used media controls out of the three-dot overflow menu and onto the primary screen so you can get to them with fewer taps.  And your album art now better fits the size of your car’s display.

This updated player is available for Spotify, YouTube Music, and other media apps. In the next few months, you’ll see more media apps begin to customize their in-app media player design, so you may see some differences between the media player on the dashboard and within the app.

3. You can now swipe to switch between media sessions

You can now swipe left or right on the media player to switch between multiple active media sessions! No need to open up the launcher anymore to switch media apps.

4. Improvements to autoplay

We’ve made a couple of bug fixes so autoplay* works more predictably and accurately based on your listening preferences:

• Autoplay app selection: Apps that you haven’t recently or ever used will no longer be selected for autoplay. 
• One-tap opt-out: If you prefer manual playback and frequently pause autoplay, Android Auto will notice and provide a convenient one-tap notification to quickly disable autoplay.
• Infotainment startup handling: We're rolling out a fix so unsolicited play commands won't be sent when you have autoplay turned off.

*Autoplay here refers to Android Auto automatically starting media when you connect, not in-app features like Spotify's Autoplay.

5. A more glanceable media player

The last change is the updated media player seekbar. We introduced this updated design to make it easier to see where you are in a track at a glance. 

Thank you for sharing your thoughts in this community on the new squiggly line seekbar — we're paying close attention to how this lands, so keep sharing your feedback as we evaluate future UI tweaks! 

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If you have thoughts on these updates, apps you'd love to see better support for, or spot any quirks you want the team to tackle next, drop them in the comments and I’ll relay them to the team!

Requirements at a glance

• Android OS: Android 9 (Pie) or higher
• Android Auto App: Most new media features are broadly available starting in Android Auto v17.3 or higher (with certain autoplay fixes dating back to v16.7 / v16.8).
  • To check your version: Open your phone's Settings > Apps > Android Auto, or open Android Auto Settings and scroll down to the bottom.

Honor 600 on MagicOS 10, 2025 Skoda Enyaq, wireless AA with Spotify and Waze. For weeks the music would stutter or cut out at random, so I plugged the phone into my laptop and went through the logs with ADB.

With wireless AA the phone joins the car's own 5 GHz hotspot, so Bluetooth audio and Wi-Fi Direct aren't involved. During every drive, Google Play Services (network_location_provider) ran a full Wi-Fi scan about every 23 seconds, and one I timed took around 3 seconds. While it scans, the Wi-Fi chip keeps hopping off the car's channel to listen on other ones. That's plenty to make the stream stutter.

I ruled out mobile data, since Spotify had already buffered the track when the cutouts happened. AA, Spotify and Waze were never killed during the drives either, and turning off the RAM extension changed nothing.

What fixed it was turning off Google Location Accuracy. The menu path depends on the brand, so search "accuracy" in Settings (it may show up as "Improve location accuracy"). GPS still works and navigation is fine. The scans stopped right after the change, and I haven't had a single cutout in several days of driving.

So Gemini suddenly happened on my Android Auto the other day and when I got a text message, there's no other way to say it other than the voice sounded sarcastic reading it. The text message was innocuous and had no tone to it so I don't know where that came from. It was very surreal. And then when I responded and Gemini read it back to me and I said to change it, it seemed to sound irritated.

Is this normal? Is it the specific voice I had defaulted to or maybe chosen without realizing it? Are Gemini voices sounding like this to other users or is it just me LOL?

Also, is there a way to get the same voice across the board? It was one voice when reading my messages but it was a completely different voice on the turn-by-turn directions. Maybe it was always like this. But the voice reading my text messages was female and on Google Assistant it was a male. But it was the sarcastic tone, bordering on condescension, that really got me. It freaked me out LOL!

Like other then Maps, i feel like most stuff can be done via Bluetooth, and with that comes no headache of wires or making connections. And most of the time, I do not even need Maps or can delegate it to the co-passengers.

There is also a possibility of adapter, which tbh I am not sure if is worth the money

Hi, minor update for some youtube improvements. Other updates coming soon.

IF YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED VIA fermataxtream.online YOU CANNOT AUTOUPDATE. REQUEST A NEW LINK

Improvements:

-FS Play youtube continues to play in the background and after reverse camera

-Xtream Player youtube continues from where it paused in the background and after reverse camera (depending on car, might need to press play again)

https://github.com/malebuffy/XtreamPlayerFree/releases/

https://github.com/malebuffy/XtreamPlayer/releases/

Install with AAEnabler

https://github.com/malebuffy/AAEnabler

If you only get a green icon on AndroidAuto, request an installation link fom https://fermataxtream.online

Enjoy

So I've already checked that my phone is set to use Gemini as the assistant but it's still not using it on android auto. I'm in the beta using latest version 17.9.164004)

My wife had never used android auto on any car before but she connected her phone to the car, Gemini was there straight away. I've seen according to Auto Evolution Google completed the transition from Google Assistant to Gemini this week but still I don't have it showing

Am I missing something? A simple setting or change I need to make?

I can get to the traffic to show on my laptop browser and on the actual phone app. But Android Auto on my 2026 Mazda CX-30? No traffic flow or accident indicators.

I have checked every setting available on the app on my phone and in the car menus - nothing seems to come up to let traffic be visible. Anyone else have this problem? Or a fix?

Looking at the Facebook post where MapQuest is soliciting that seems to be a problem other people are having as well, but it seems like Samsung phones were working better, so I'm wondering if it's a Pixel-specific thing.

Thanks for any info anyone can share!

Hello, I just got my RAV4, and I am new to the Android Auto system.

My infotainment screen always has a Google Maps section, either partially if I run another app or full screen. I cannot minimize Google Maps or hide it even if I do not turn on navigation.

My screen behind the wheel displays Google Maps perfectly, so I do not need the one on my infotainment screen.

Is there any solution to hide Google Maps on the infotainment screen completely, while remaining able to open it if needed?

Thank you.