Google is shutting down the Android Auto cell phone app

Android Auto is barely identified with a realizing to safe entry to your cell phone thru a automobile’s dashboard — this potential that you just can simply safe entry to Google Maps, music apps and data with out needing to use your cell phone. But for years now, Google has also supplied an Android Auto experience straight away on a cell phone, for of us that put now now not want a neatly suited dashboard unit. More lately, Google has also been working on an “Assistant riding mode” (pictured above) that arrived earlier this twelve months after just a few delays. Now that Google Assistant riding mode is accomplished, though, the company will cease offering the extinct Android Auto experience on phones running Android 12.

An announcement from Google shared with 9to5Google confirms this conception. Google Assistant riding mode is our next evolution of the cell riding experience,” the assertion reads. “For the of us that use Android Auto in supported automobiles, which indulge in isn’t going away. For of us who use the on cell phone experience (Android Auto cell app), they’re going to be transitioned to Google Assistant riding mode. Starting with Android 12, Google Assistant riding mode might per chance well be the constructed-in cell riding experience. We haven’t any extra details to share at present.”

Sooner than Google confirmed this switch, some Pixel owners running Android 12 got a notification when looking out to bustle the Android Auto app on their phones. It mentioned that Android Auto turned into now “only on hand for automobile screens” and suggested that they are attempting the Google Assistant riding experience as a substitute. Supplied that the new Google Assistant experience will clearly be the level of pastime going forward, switching over potentially is now now not in actual fact a monumental deal for most folks. But whenever you happen to don’t upgrade your cell phone to Android 12, you’re going to be in a enviornment to preserve running the Android Auto app, after all in the mean time.