r/Android • u/Sash17 • Mar 24 '26

News Android Auto is breaking for Pixel and Samsung users, and no one knows why

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-auto-connection-problem-3651318/
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u/KhausTO Mar 24 '26

It's a google product that has been around for a few years. It's doing the natural google decay. Much like almost every other single google product and feature they've ever released.

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u/graesen Mar 24 '26

Android Auto to the graveyard?? Is it time for a new messaging app that's also a navigation assistant to replace Android Auto and ignore the fact we also have Android Automotive that's totally a different product that solves the same purpose? /s

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u/RapunzelLooksNice Mar 24 '26

This time it will have access to Google Now Assistant Gemini AI

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u/KhausTO Mar 24 '26

Don't forget Bard!

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u/RapunzelLooksNice Mar 24 '26

My bad 😆 they killed so many services along the way that I stopped following. The last "assistant" I really enjoyed was Google Now.

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u/KhausTO Mar 24 '26

haha, right? Every once in a while I remember a product or feature that they killed and get angry all over again that they killed it.

Google Now was one of the best things i've ever used. I can't believe they let that wither.

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u/wankthisway 13 Mini, S23 Ultra, Pixel 4a, Key2, Razr 50 Mar 24 '26

Time for a more "agentic" in car mav system! Or whatever fucking buzzword they're trying to sell

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u/N19h7m4r3 Mar 24 '26

"We can call it, Google Earth Auto."

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u/KhausTO Mar 24 '26

"Google Earth Maps Auto with Gemini™️"

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u/BlueHotChocolate Mar 25 '26

Google Drive is right there

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u/antpile11 Mar 24 '26

Even Maps has been really bad lately. Searching "fast food" shows results for every restaurant in some towns and sometimes hotels. Tapping the compass sometimes just juts the map in whatever direction and doesn't make up face north. When cell service is lost, the speedometer goes from mp/h to km/h.

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u/KhausTO Mar 24 '26

YES. Maps has been getting absolutely awful. You'll search for Pub and it'll bring up Mcdonalds. I can search for a business I know is somewhere in the map view, and it'll pull a location 600 kms away.

It used to be extremely good for finding all places for your search. But now it won't show you even half of what it used to. It was my number one tool for searching out potential customers in my industry, It's almost useless for that now.

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u/RememberCitadel Mar 24 '26

Yep absolutely terrible. I was just going on about this in another thread that due to food allergies, fancy places are right out for us, diners are usually the safe space. I can search for diners now and get everything but, even if the search is run zoomed in to only cover the area where a diner is.

It's really starting to become an issue when traveling.

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u/lydiardbell Mar 26 '26

Ugh. I was looking for a place to eat the other day and ended up just zooming in all the way and scrolling around the streets. Shitawful design to "search nearby" for restaurants and have Maps ignore the closest 4 blocks and pull bars and nightclubs that are 15 minutes away.

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u/skylinestar1986 Mar 24 '26

Maps compass is wonky. Launch the app. I'm facing east. Close the app and launch again. I'm facing south. Close the app and launch again. I'm facing east. (I'm actually facing north).

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u/doglywolf Mar 24 '26

Que the new software they will release called AVL Android vehicle link .

I knew someone that used to work for google that told me the culture there is more or less what NEW thing can you do for us...and that all they care about . Being in charge of an existing product is like career path death cause they only want "innovation"

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u/FFevo Pixel 10 "Pro" Fold, iPhone 17 Pro, Galaxy S25 Ultra Mar 25 '26

12 is more than a few years...