HOT 266: Troubleshooting Android Auto - Fixing Android Auto Issues
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on hands-on tech Android auto aficionados, stay tuned because this episode, we are doing some troubleshooting. |
| 0:10.2 | Here we go. |
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| 1:07.1 | twit. This is Twitter. Hello and welcome to hands-on tech. I am Micah Sargent, and today we are answering |
| 1:22.4 | your tech questions. Yes, that's right. This is the show where you write in with your tech |
| 1:26.4 | questions, HOT, at twit.tv, and I do my best to answer them. This week's question comes in from Jeff. |
| 1:34.1 | Jeff says, I drive a car for a local auto dealership, multiple different types of cars, and this |
| 1:39.8 | happens in all of them. I use Android Auto, and recently, something has changed. |
| 1:45.0 | First of all, if I get a text message, the banner that would typically show at the top of the screen stopped appearing. |
| 1:51.0 | The only way I know that I received a text is a blue dot with a number in it on the screen. |
| 1:56.0 | We call those badges on iOS. When I touch the blue dot, I see the banner slash first line of the message, |
| 2:02.5 | but when I touch on the play button, a bubble pops up saying that voice commands aren't available |
| 2:07.9 | at this time. So Jeff is hitting that play button to play back what the message says, and it's not |
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