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6 Android Auto settings you didn't know you needed to change
Feb 9, 2025
Summary
Changing Android Auto settings will let you rearrange your homescreen, resume music automatically, and launch without unlocking your phone.
Other options include things like forcing Day or Night Mode, or controlling message alerts.
You may need to enable developer settings in some cases.
The whole point of Android Auto is to enhance your driving experience without the limitations of a phone mount, or the expense of buying a new car with preloaded tech like (the confusingly named) Android Automotive. It's not quite as polished as Apple CarPlay, though, so it's not uncommon for people to run into issues that make it a little more troublesome than it should be. Hopefully, the gap will continue to narrow in coming years.
In the meantime, you can solve some of Android Auto's current issues with a few settings tweaks. I'd strongly recommend trying some or all of these before you hit the road -- there's no sense driving with a suboptimal experience, especially if you've spent upwards of $1,000 on a new flagship phone from Google or Samsung.
1 Enable developer settings
Unlock Android Auto's full potential
Android Police / Pocket-lint
You can't fully improve Android Auto's usability without enabling developer settings. Depending on your version of Android, even some seemingly simple things may be behind this barrier, treated as if they were a dangerous experiment. Don't worry -- as long as you understand the options you're toggling, everything should keep running fine.
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