{"id":254028,"date":"2026-05-24T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/i-optimized-android-auto-for-long-drives-and-now-i-cant-go-back\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:15:10","slug":"i-optimized-android-auto-for-long-drives-and-now-i-cant-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/i-optimized-android-auto-for-long-drives-and-now-i-cant-go-back\/","title":{"rendered":"I optimized Android Auto for long drives, and now I can\u2019t go back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/optimized-android-auto-for-long-drives-and-now-i-cant-go-back\/\">I optimized Android Auto for long drives, and now I can\u2019t go back<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/optimized-android-auto-for-long-drives-and-now-i-cant-go-back\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/optimized-android-auto-for-long-drives-and-now-i-cant-go-back\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-24 08:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I changed to make those drives calmer and less frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tWhy Android Auto is still a love-hate relationship for me<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I can&#8217;t quit it, and that&#8217;s what makes it so frustrating<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"reorganizing-the-launcher-reduced-unnecessary-distractions\">\n                        Reorganizing the launcher reduced unnecessary distractions<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"928\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Assistant on Android Auto\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/04\/google-assistant-on-android-auto.jpg?q=49&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=2\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/04\/google-assistant-on-android-auto.jpg?q=49&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=2\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><\/p>\n<p> By default, Android Auto tends to fill the launcher with apps I rarely use while driving. Some of them are useful, but not enough to deserve space on the main interface during a long drive.<\/p>\n<p>On shorter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/optimized-android-auto-for-long-drives-and-now-i-cant-go-back\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I optimized Android Auto for long drives, and now I can\u2019t go back https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/optimized-android-auto-for-long-drives-and-now-i-cant-go-back\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/driver-using-android-auto-navigation-on-a-car-dashboard.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-254028","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\/254028"}],"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=254028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254032,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254028\/revisions\/254032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}