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Android Auto is a pretty useful feature, enabling you to extend your phone's capabilities to the in-car display. It makes it much easier to follow Google Maps, respond to any incoming messages and calls, as well as control media playback.
Most recent smartphones are fully compatible with Android Auto, both wired and wireless, so if you have a phone from the past few years you're good. However, if your phone is a bit older, you may want to read on.
Google first indicated about a year ago that it will require devices to run Android 9.0 Pie as a minimum to be able to run Android Auto. The company raises the minimum requirement every few years, it had previously made Android 8.0 the minimum back in 2022.
Despite confirming the new requirement, the company hadn't started enforcing it, so even devices running Android 8.0 were capable of using Android Auto, that has now changed with the latest update for the in-car platform.
Google has made it mandatory for devices to be running Android 9.0 Pie with the latest Android Auto 15.5 update. This means that if your Galaxy device's software support was ended after Android 8.0, then it will no longer be able to run Android Auto.
You have to go as far back as the Galaxy S7 series for this, and if you're still rocking one of the devices from that era, it's safe to say that it's high time you upgraded.
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Most recent smartphones are fully compatible with Android Auto, both wired and wireless, so if you have a phone from the past few years you're good. However, if your phone is a bit older, you may want to read on.
It's time to buy a new phone
Google first indicated about a year ago that it will require devices to run Android 9.0 Pie as a minimum to be able to run Android Auto. The company raises the minimum requirement every few years, it had previously made Android 8.0 the minimum back in 2022.
Despite confirming the new requirement, the company hadn't started enforcing it, so even devices running Android 8.0 were capable of using Android Auto, that has now changed with the latest update for the in-car platform.
Google has made it mandatory for devices to be running Android 9.0 Pie with the latest Android Auto 15.5 update. This means that if your Galaxy device's software support was ended after Android 8.0, then it will no longer be able to run Android Auto.
You have to go as far back as the Galaxy S7 series for this, and if you're still rocking one of the devices from that era, it's safe to say that it's high time you upgraded.
The post Your Galaxy phone won’t work with Android Auto if it’s this old appeared first on imeisource.