AutoGoogle Assistant not reading out your WhatsApp messages in Android Auto? You’re not aloneThe Google Assistant is having issues when it comes to reading out new messagesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
AutoGoogle Assistant not reading out your WhatsApp messages in Android Auto? You’re not aloneThe Google Assistant is having issues when it comes to reading out new messagesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
The Google Assistant is having issues when it comes to reading out new messages
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Having theGoogleAssistant read out new messages while you’re driving is a great way to keep in touch with your contacts in a safe, distraction-free way while driving.
Unfortunately, it seems like the voice assistant hasn’t been behaving itself recently, withAndroid Autousers reporting how it is failing to read out incoming messages.
The issues appear to have begun in early February, withAndroid Autousers posting on Google’s help forums about the problem. When asking the Google Assistant to read out new WhatsApp messages, the system responds with: “You need to authorise personal responses for this car”.
This seems like a simple thing to do, but there’s actually no option in the Android Auto andGoogle Assistantsettings menus to do this. One user said: “The setting does not exist anywhere in my Android Auto settings nor in my phone. Pretty frustrating.”
When something like this happens it’s hard to work out exactly what is at fault. It could be WhatsApp, it could be Google Assistant, or it might be the Android Auto system itself, which runs on the smartphone but is interacted with via the car’s dashboard display.
For that, we’ll need to wait for either Google or WhatsApp parent Meta to come up with a solution. In the meantime,Google is askingfor everyone suffering from the problem to provide information like their car make and model, phone type, Android OS version, Google app version and the country they are in. Google began collecting this data on 2 February, right after the issue first cropped up, so hopefully it’ll be working on a fix and rolling it out soon.
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