Popular navigation app Android The car has supported wireless connection for several years, but this feature has reached all users relatively recently. Now Google has released a new update for the app that removes the wireless connection option Android Turn off the car.
New version Android Auto 8.7, which Google began rolling out this week, removes the toggle for “Wireless Android Auto", which has been available in the settings menu for several years. Specifically, the switch was located in the System section above the Google Analytics item. The change also applies to version 8.8, which is available to some beta program participants.
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In years past, this switch was turned off by default in many cases, resulting in users having to "drill down" into their settings to use wireless adapters like AAWireless in the app. Now it looks like Google left this switch on by default, but at the same time removed the option to turn off the wireless feature altogether.
To be clear, wireless Android The car is not affected by this change. You'll still be able to hop into your car and continue using the feature as before, you just won't be able to turn off wireless on your device. As the website points out SmartDroid, this could be somewhat frustrating if you only wanted to turn off the feature on one device so that a partner's device could connect. However, it's fairly easy to block the connection, either by turning off Bluetooth or briefly activating Airplane Mode while the other device is connecting.
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