Android Auto Enhancements
The Android Auto integration is pretty good, but what would make it perfect is just a couple tweaks:
1) Make it auto-start when you start Android Auto. I don't mean it would come up instead of the AA home screen, I mean unlike Google Maps, when you have Waze as your default mapping app, your typical destinations don't appear on the AA home screen until you click the map icon. I also cannot hit my car's "Nav" button to get me into Waze until I've manually opened it once. With Google Maps as default, I can hit Nav button on my car, and it goes right to it. It appears that Maps "warms up" on connecting to the car, where Waze does not.
2) When using Waze on a car with rotary control (and not touch, as in a Mazda), when you get an alert about police or hazard, you have to rotate the wheel the wrong direction from how the items select. Reverse that, please!
3) When starting out, nothing is highlighted by default. It would be great if the "resting" state of nav mode is the "Report" button being highlighted.
jkane001
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Ron Lambert commented
To the original poster. Just confirming if you don't mind, are you using "Waze" - Android Auto & in vehicle's display on Android v12 by chance? Something seems to have changed and I can't get any navigation app except Google's -Maps Assistant or whatever Google calls it?