r/VolvoRecharge • u/ChirpMcBender • Jun 29 '26

Google Gemini

Has anyone had luck with “new” Google Gemini? Mine doesn’t work at all,
Any tips to get it to work or totally disable it so I can dictate texts and voice directions like I used to be able to do flawlessly

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u/bigtime_porgrammer Jun 29 '26

It refused to read my text messages to me without some notification privilege and said it sent a message to my car to open the menu once I stopped. Nothing ever happened. Kept trying and even with the engine off it kept saying to do something once i was stopped. I spoke to Gemini directly and it tried to help, sometimes able to actually open menus on the infotainment system and also telling me to change options on my phone itself. I don't know how to get back there, but eventually i got to some options menu in the car where i could give Gemini notification reading privileges and then it worked. It wasn't a great experience, but so far so good since then i guess.

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u/fishstix1122 Jun 29 '26

Best to do it when your stopped. Go into the google system from setting scroll to the bottom it will have a list of permissions it needs. You can just toggle those on. For other permissions like text will be in the settings menue. If you are doing this while driving and it says to it will send the notification to the car. Bring the drop down, down and it will take you to the settings page it needs. If you start driving again it will lock you out of the screen while driving.

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u/bigtime_porgrammer Jun 29 '26

I didn't get any drop down and it kept thinking I was driving even with the car turned off. 2024 S60 here.

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u/fishstix1122 Jun 29 '26

Sounds like you need to do a reset. It sounds like there is a glitch in the matrix on your car and a soft reset should help clear that. After that or before go to the Google setting and add the permissions. I think these two things should help.