Android Auto is a interface designed by Google that makes life much easier when it comes to having a launcher modern and functional on the digital screen of our car. We have both voice and touch control options, and it provides us with a simple and intuitive user interface that connects to our smartphone easily.
This app has us improved to much life When we go on a trip or route with the car through new areas where GPS is essential and we do not have one integrated as an option in our car. It also completely solves the issue of connectivity and multimedia, thanks to the fact that it creates a compatibility between the applications of our smartphone and the car, so that we can enjoy of services as useful as Spotify, Google Maps, Google Assistant, or the telephone or messaging function, which allows us to make or receive calls and messages.
Although it is a tremendously useful application, it is in continuous development since it is still has things to improve, because it has shortcomings that can be a problem when driving. One of these problems, is that when we receive notifications on our smartphone, we receive both a text notification on the car screen, and a auditory cue that can become annoying, and distract our attention from the road, generating a potential situation de risk for us.
Apparently Google has solved this in its latest update, more specifically in the version v5.0500224 of the app, in which this feature is now added turn off the sound of notifications that should have been available a long time ago, and that Google has repeatedly added and removed at will.
How to activate this function
Once we have installed this version of Android Auto on our phone, we will find in the section of setting a label that says "No notification sound". Once we have activated this option, we will not receive No kind of sound signal upon receiving a message or a notification of any type. This, we also solution to the one that we interrupt continuously music that we are listening in the car from the mobile, which is almost appreciated more than the very fact of the security that this implies.
There is still another unsolved problem
Although this improvement has been included that helps us avoid being distracted by the sound of notifications, there is another problem in the air that has not been resolved. Apparently, as discovered by a Reddit user, when we receive messages from notification, these appear on the car screen, without sound, but they stay there until we manually discard them. This again constitutes a security problem, since we still have a distraction on the mobile screen and that can become an even greater distraction than the sound of the notification itself.
Hopefully this will be solved quickly and that the application will be improved, especially in matters that influence the driver safety, How is the case.
I don't know how to solve this problem, there are occasions where I can make calls through the car stereo speakers and in others only through the telephone… why does this happen?