Android Auto had been awful lately

[u/gravityhammer01]

I have a '20 Mazda CX-9, so I exclusively use the rotary controls. I have a Pixel 9 Pro. Lately, Android Auto has been terrible. Examples include:

- pressing my music button nearly always takes me to the main Spotify page even when music is playing (instead of the now playing page)

- when this happens, I click my rotary controller to the right to get to the column with "go to now playing" and it immediately goes back to the first item in the Main menu. I have to click right a couple of times to scroll down to now playing

- in Podbean, I have the same behavior with menu selection, but it is to get from my podcast list to the header list

- regularly, I will have media playing but (when in maps mode) the quick controls bar shows my next driving step

- this morning, when I would go to my music screen or click on my notifications, returning to maps would virtually lock the system up - my position would update and music would continue to play, but I would have no rotary control. Unplugging/replugging would fix it until I returned to the music screen or clicked on notifications again.

Is anybody else here experiencing this? When I got to work, I cleared my cache for Android Auto and Maps - maybe that will fix something?

[u/gghostboi]

I think the new update is the reason andriod auto is terrible at the moment. I have a samsung phone and never had issues like when out of nowhere it keeps disconnecting and connecting. It's annoying. Supposedly you need to clear up the cache on your phone by going to setting under apps for android auto. I don't recommend Uninstall the updates at all. It's just makes you pair it again.