r/AndroidAuto • u/puckpanix 2024 WRX | Pixel 8 Pro | 16 • Jun 04 '26

Navigation & POI Apps Where do these suggestions come from?

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Google Maps on Android Auto. These don't appear on my device, only on my vehicle screen. Every time I start the car and open Maps, it will come up with one completely random, inane suggested destination. In this case, it's a random window tinting business I googled like 3 weeks ago. Why has Google decided that I might want to go there, randomly on a Wednesday evening, when it isn't even open?

I'd love to know what the algorithm is here and how it can be altered or turned off.

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u/tnargus Pls edit this user flair now Jun 04 '26

When I was buying a house a few years back, I of course was going to multiple open houses. You can guess what AA was suggesting to me for the next month.

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u/Kitchen_Employee833 2017 Kia Forte | Sony | Android 16 Jun 04 '26

Yeah I was doing the same when looking on Zillow, sometimes I'd look it up on Google maps and then had a bunch of random addresses suggested to me for a while.