Android Auto has become one of the best driving apps, if not the most popular, at least in the Android mobile ecosystem. And it is so because of the large number of options it offers us when it comes to adapting to our needs when we drive. Today we look at one of the most practical.
And it is that sometimes it can be a hassle to start the Android Auto app, in those moments that seems more appropriate to us. And this is not only when we enter the car, because there may be other circumstances that require us to start the application at a different time.
Start Android Auto only when you want, and automatically
That is what we propose today, to use Android Auto automatically only when a specific circumstance occurs. Above all, it will be useful if you are one of those who carry your mobile in your pants pocket, jacket, backpack or bag, while driving. If you do, it’s because you probably don’t need the help that Android Auto can provide for driving at that time. But if an occasion arises where the Google app needs to be needed, we can make it run automatically.
And we are not talking about doing it when it connects to the FM radio through our car’s Bluetooth, because in this way it would always start automatically when we get into the car, but rather that it does so only at a certain time, when we take it out. From the pocket. If you know that when you take it out of your pocket most of the time it is to start Android Auto, then there is a setting specifically for that, to be able to start the application automatically when it is taken out of your pocket .
- To do this you just have to do the following:
- Open Android Auto on your mobile
- Click on the three horizontal stripes in the upper left
- Select “Settings”
- Swipe until you find “Autostart”
- Disable “Auto Start”
- Once inside, activate the function “Detection of the device in the pocket”
In this way we prevent Android Auto from starting when it detects the car radio, and it only does so when you take it out of your pocket, be it from the garment or accessory that it is. And it is that in this case the phone’s proximity sensor will come into action, which when it detects that there is no longer an object attached to it, will automatically start Android Auto .
A very specific setting
Logically, you should only activate this setting if you know that you are going to go with your car, and that the phone is going to be safe in a pants pocket, bag, or backpack. Otherwise, every time you take it out of your pants or jacket pocket you will see Android auto start, something that is not what we want either.
So you have to be very careful and cautious when activating this function, which, if well managed and administered, can be really interesting to use. Especially on a daily basis, if we have to go to work in the car, and we want to use Android Auto only at those times when it can be really useful, when the traffic jam appears.