Although I move around a lot throughout the year for work, I take advantage of the busy work days and the days off during the summer months for classic summer vacations and short getaways with people. Except for trips where the logistics only mean flying and train prices, it is normal to prefer using the car for flexibility and savings. Moreover, moving by car is no longer a long journey like my family did by looking at the map the old-fashioned way: the experience is much better with infotainment systems like Android Auto.

Sometimes it’s someone’s vehicle, but we usually use mine, and with a few people in the car for hours and Android Auto on the screen, it seems It is important to change this setting and improve privacy.

Android Auto is very useful for those long journeys when you are traveling to an unknown place, because thanks to its compatible applications you have navigation applications so that you do not get lost and other entertainment applications that you can listen to. Listen to music while relaxing in the parking lot and even watch DTT on the car screen and of course stay up to date with the main messaging applications. However, the latter has a disadvantage: It depends on how you structure it, gossipy people learn everything.

Prevent your messages from being missed by prying eyes: Change this Android Auto setting

WhatsApp messages from Telegram are particularly dangerous, as it is the most used messaging application and in my case I chat with some of my best friends. My mother usually pays attention to what appears on the screen and I have friends whose eyes go blank when they see a notification, so I have my people avoid prying eyes (and even more if I put Blablacar) and to improve my privacy and confidentiality, change an Android setting.

Android Auto notifications are a very personal matter, in fact I have already told you how I configure them so that you don’t miss what’s important and to minimize distractions. So you can enable sounds so that you get a sound alert when someone writes to you, enable notifications for individual and group chats and finally show first line of conversationThis last option is criticism, and it’s the option I normally enable to get some perspective on why they’re talking to me (although depending on how the person expresses themselves, it might not even be that).

Where can I find all these options? You will have to go to the mobile settings, search for ‘Android Auto’ there and once inside, you will have to slide it to the notification block, where the critical option first appears and if it is activated, it is advisable to deactivate it for extra privacy.

This actually affects the Google infotainment system, not the mobile preview, and in any case, when the pop-up containing the message notification appears, ‘Tap to hear“If you want the assistant to read this to us, we assume the conversation could be heard by others traveling with us.”

Cover | Montage with image created with Microsoft Copilot Designer (IA) and Android Auto logo

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