- A major fix for Android Auto appears to be on the way
- It would allow you to deactivate the alarms from the vehicle dashboard
- Users have been requesting this for years.
If you are an Android Auto user, you will know that you cannot disable alarms from the vehicle’s dashboard; you must do it on your phone. It’s a frustrating inconvenience, but apparently Google is trying to fix it.
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 notes, it’s been something users have requested for almost a decade. It also feels like a basic feature that really should have been added already, considering everything else Android Auto is capable of.
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While alarms can be turned off via a Google Assistant voice command, this isn’t something the 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 solutions to be done
The newly discovered code is not enabled 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 activate it so that the options appeared on the screen.
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 difficult” to add the functionality, while another complains that Android Auto “crashes every 10 minutes,” an indication that the software experience isn’t ideal for everyone right now.
At least the software engineers seem to be working hard on Android Auto – we recently saw an issue with Do Not Disturb fixed, while the navigation mode also received some useful updates for EVs.
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