While Android 11 did bring a series of welcome improvements for everybody, it also introduced several critical bugs on Android Auto, and one of them concerns phone calls.
Shortly after Google released Android 11 to the very first batch of phones, users started reporting issues with making calls from their cars when Android Auto was running on the screen. Most of them complained that using voice input to request Google Assistant to start a call to a specific contact just returned them to the previous screen, with some explaining that the whole thing only worked when their devices were unlocked. Needless to say, unlocking the phone while driving just to make a phone call isn’t really the most convenient and recommended workaround, but the good thing is that Google has already looked into the problem and figured out what’s causing it. So the company has recently confirmed tha
Shortly after Google released Android 11 to the very first batch of phones, users started reporting issues with making calls from their cars when Android Auto was running on the screen. Most of them complained that using voice input to request Google Assistant to start a call to a specific contact just returned them to the previous screen, with some explaining that the whole thing only worked when their devices were unlocked. Needless to say, unlocking the phone while driving just to make a phone call isn’t really the most convenient and recommended workaround, but the good thing is that Google has already looked into the problem and figured out what’s causing it. So the company has recently confirmed that