Customise Android Auto and Apple Carplay
More and more new cars now come with Apple Carplay and Android Auto built in. These big-screen interfaces for your phone let you control it more safely when driving as they give you big, chunky controls to jab at instead of the smartphone’s fiddly buttons. They also let you manage these controls via buttons on your steering wheel, and can read out incoming text messages, which you can respond to using your voice.
At first glance, though, you may find your newly installed apps don’t show up on the car’s built-in screen. To resolve this, IOS and Android give you extensive control over the apps that appear on the screen.
If you’re using Android Auto, open
Settings on your Android device and tap ‘Connected devices’, followed by ‘Connection preferences’, then Android Auto. To change the range of apps that show on the dashboard screen, tap ‘Customize launcher’, then use the tick boxes beside the name of each app to show or hide it. Notice, also, the option to ‘Add a shortcut to the launcher’ at the top of the screen (see screenshot below left). Tap this and you can add a button to call a contact or carry out an action using Google Assistant. This lets you, for example, call a family member to tell them you’re on your way home or get the latest weather forecast for your destination with just one tap.
On an iphone, open Settings and tap General followed by Carplay. Select your car in the list of registered vehicles, then tap Customize. Use the ‘+’ and ‘-’ buttons to add and remove apps to the choice that’s shown on the car screen, and hold down on the three bars to the right of each one to drag them into your preferred order. from www.snipca.com/37595) it provides additional photo-editing options for Android users.
If you’ve already signed up for Google One, open the photo you want to edit using the Google Photos app on your Android phone or tablet, then tap the edit button (an icon with three adjustment sliders) on the bottom toolbar. You’ll now find a range of smart editing options when you tap Suggestions (see screenshot above), and extra editing features under Adjust.