{"id":251843,"date":"2026-05-21T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/4-android-auto-features-you-can-look-forward-to-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:30:08","slug":"4-android-auto-features-you-can-look-forward-to-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/4-android-auto-features-you-can-look-forward-to-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Android Auto Features You Can Look Forward To In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2178943\/android-auto-features-look-forward-to-2026\/\">4 Android Auto Features You Can Look Forward To In 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2178943\/android-auto-features-look-forward-to-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2178943\/android-auto-features-look-forward-to-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 17:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">TY Lim\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Google&#8217;s Android Auto is getting new features to vastly improve the in-vehicle dash experience. For example, it recently unveiled a Material 3 Expressive makeover for the interface, a series of unique design elements previously available only on\u00a0the Android phone version. The biggest change is the option to customize the dashboard&#8217;s layout and look and feel. The goal is to unify and equalize the\u00a0user experience\u00a0across platforms, while also delivering\u00a0more &#8220;premium&#8221; opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those features\u00a0will\u00a0improve how you interact with your dashboard. While there were already some pretty clever ways to use Gemini on Android Auto, the new update will also introduce a host of new functions for that. Google refers to it as Gemini Intelligence, an assistant-like platform that aims to help you keep your attention on the road while it handles a variety of minor tasks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the latest update \u2014 Android Auto 17.0 \u2014 is starting an early rollout to users, but not everyone just yet. Those interested in testing beta builds will be the first to try it all out before it&#8217;s available as a public release. There aren&#8217;t too many big changes in this one,\u00a0per Autoevolution, despite what Google has promised is on the way. It also means that most of the new features won&#8217;t arrive for folks until later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">1. Android Auto is getting dashboard widgets<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2178943\/android-auto-features-look-forward-to-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Android Auto Features You Can Look Forward To In 2026 https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2178943\/android-auto-features-look-forward-to-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-21&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/4-android-auto-features-you-can-look-forward-to-in-2026\/l-intro-1779385890.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-251843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251845,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251843\/revisions\/251845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}