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    Chongping Wang commented  · 

    When Waze is projected to a vehicle's instrument cluster through Android Auto, the map stays in dark mode at all times, even in bright daylight. On the main display the map switches correctly between light and dark; on the cluster it does not.
    Why this matters
    1. Safety and legibility. The cluster sits in the driver's primary line of sight. A permanently dark map in bright daylight is hard to read, and offers no benefit over a correctly dimmed light map at night.
    2. Android Auto sets day/night mode per display. Head units specify an independent UI theme for each display, and a vehicle's day/night state is expected to be consistent with the dashboard. An app that ignores the per-display theme breaks that contract.
    3. Consistency. Google Maps follows the day/night setting on the same cluster display, so users see Waze as the outlier.
    4. Parity with the phone app. The Waze phone app already supports light/dark map themes.
    Request
    Make the car/cluster map honor the Android Auto per-display day/night mode and UI theme, the same way it already does on the main display, so the cluster map switches between light and dark following the vehicle's day/night setting.
    Steps to reproduce
    1. Connect a phone to an Android Auto head unit that supports an instrument cluster display.
    2. Start navigation in Waze and move the map to the cluster display.
    3. Toggle the vehicle between day and night mode.
    Expected: the cluster map switches between light and dark.
    Actual: the cluster map stays dark in both modes.

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