- A major fix for Android Auto appears to be on the way
- This would remove alarms from the vehicle dashboard
- Users have been asking for this for years now
If you’re an Android Auto user, you’ll know that you can’t ignore vehicle dashboard alarms: you have to do it on your phone. It’s a frustrating inconvenience, but one that Google is apparently doing something about.
The Android Authority team discovered that the ability to snooze and stop alarms is hidden in the code of the latest version of Android Auto. These options will appear on the Android Auto screen when a phone rings.
As the report points out, this is something users have been asking for for almost a decade. This also feels like a basic feature that really should have been added by now, considering everything Android Auto is capable of.
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Although alarms can be turned off via a Google Assistant voice command, that’s not something Gemini can do yet. The next-generation AI assistant is now rolling out to Android Auto users, but without being able to control alarms.
There are still many fixes to be made
The newly discovered code isn’t activated yet, so it’s unclear how long we’ll have to wait before it goes live. However, the Android Authority team was able to manually enable it to display the options on the screen.
The reactions on Reddit to the appearance of this code have been very similar: there is a feeling that this shouldn’t be difficult for Google to implement, and that there are many other Android Auto issues that need to be addressed as well.
One poster says “it shouldn’t be hard” to add the feature, while another complains that Android Auto “crashes every 10 minutes” – an indication that the software experience isn’t ideal for everyone at the moment.
At least the software engineers seem to be working hard on Android Auto: we recently noticed an issue with Do Not Disturb, while the navigation mode also received some useful EV upgrades.
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