My 2020 IV phev doesn't, according to the spec, support wireless Android Auto.

 

However, at some point, I managed to enable it anyway, and it worked.

 

Recently it's stopped working properly, so I want to disable it again.

 

But I can't find where I turned it on in the first place to turn it off again.

 

Anyone know where the option is in the car menus? I must have gone through all of them a million times.

 

I guess I could unpair the phone and see if that works if I have to; I'd rather someone was able to say "it's in settings, press tyre pressures seven times and open the boot, it's easy, dumbo" or whatever.

From my limited experience of wireless AA you can't disable it. At least you couldn't on the hire car (honda?) I had in the states. Only ways past it were to turn off Bluetooth on the phone before getting in, remove my phone from the settings or plug it in. I used option 1 and 3 depending on what we were doing.

Well that's a blow. I know I actively enabled it, so it seems bizarre that doing so removes the toggle I used to do it, wherever that might have been.

 

Ah well.

Edited 24 November, 20241 yr by crankcase

Well, just in case anyone cares, some digging.

 

It was originally turned on or off via the phone.

 

Then everyone's Android phones got updated, and Google hid the wireless Android Auto toggle away, in Developer options.

 

Then they updated Android again, and the toggle has gone completely.

 

So no, if it's on, you can't just turn it off, and it's not and never was in the car menus.

 

That might save someone prodding about endlessly, as I did.

Thank crank. Worth knowing you can't turn it off at all now. In addition to my description of the usage above, it also rinsed the battery on my phone while connected wirelessly. Even with it in a wireless charger. It got really hot too. All of that might be phone specific but it's a pixel 7a so not abnormal.