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 Telephone 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 individuals who use the on cellphone expertise (Android Auto cell app), they are going to be transitioned to Google Assistant driving mode. Beginning with Android 12, Google Assistant driving mode would be the built-in cell driving expertise. We’ve no additional particulars to share at the moment,” the corporate instructed TheVerge in a press release.
Google has been informing customers concerning the change by way of the app. Customers of the Android Auto for Telephone Screens app have reported that the app has been displaying a notification to them saying it is just out there for automotive screens now. It factors customers to the Google Assistant’s driving mode as an alternative, in its place.
To be clear, Android Auto for Telephone Screens wasn’t probably the most broadly used app for Google within the first place. The app was launched in 2019 and has been downloaded over 5 million occasions, in keeping with the Play Retailer 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 firms to determine the identical. Vehicles manufactured by Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, Mahindra & Mahindra and a number of other others already include Android Auto inbuilt, in India.
Google had additionally introduced the driving mode for the Google Assistant in 2019, however the function began rolling out to customers solely final 12 months.
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