Google discontinuing Android Auto app for smartphones

Tech big Google is discontinuing the Android Auto app for smartphones, pushing customers as an alternative to make use of the Google Assistant. As reported by TheVerge, the corporate will shut down the Android Auto for Phone Screens app from Android 12 onwards and customers will as an alternative have to make use of the driving mode on the Google Assistant, which works with each Google Maps and Android Auto enabled playing cards.

“For those that use the on cellphone expertise (Android Auto cellular app), they are going to be transitioned to Google Assistant driving mode. Starting with Android 12, Google Assistant driving mode would be the built-in cellular driving expertise. We don’t have any additional particulars to share right now,” the corporate instructed TheVerge in a press release.

Google has been informing customers concerning the change by way of the app. Users of the Android Auto for Phone Screens app have reported that the app has been displaying a notification to them saying it’s only obtainable for automobile screens now. It factors customers to the Google Assistant’s driving mode as an alternative, instead.

To be clear, Android Auto for Phone Screens wasn’t probably the most extensively used app for Google within the first place. The app was launched in 2019 and has been downloaded over 5 million occasions, based on the Play Store itemizing, which isn’t the best quantity anyway. Android Auto is constructed to be a part of in-car techniques, and Google has been working with auto corporations to ascertain the identical. Cars manufactured by Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, Mahindra & Mahindra and a number of other others already include Android Auto in-built, in India.

Google had additionally introduced the driving mode for the Google Assistant in 2019, however the characteristic began rolling out to customers solely final 12 months.

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