The best reason to install Android Auto 9.3 is this tweak that lets you open your favorite apps faster

This week the latest installment of Android Auto 9.3 has arrived on our Android phones, so it is no longer necessary to use the Android Auto beta program or to pull its APK: if you want, you can download it Normally. Among the new features of this latest version is a new setting that you will greatly appreciate in your daily life: Starting the application. We tell you how it works and what you can do with it.

What is “Start Application” and what is it for?

Once you’ve updated to Android Auto 9.3, you’ll find a new setting in your phone’s app: start requestwhose location you can see just below these lines.

Once inside, you can choose which apps are compatible with Android Auto that will open as soon as Android Auto starts, which has two very practical consequences for users: choose third-party applications before those configured by default and on the other hand, streamline the user experience.

This new setting is great for choosing your favorite apps. Let’s see this with some examples. The normal thing when opening Android Auto is usually to choose to open the browser, in which case the default option is Google Maps. What do you prefer Waze?

Thanks to this option, you can configure it by default to be your main browser.

That you can’t drive without music and the first thing you do is open Amazon Music or Spotify?

In this case, you already know that the procedure is a bit long, especially if you were listening to music on your mobile before getting on the bike and you want to continue listening to it: in addition to configuring the ‘Start music automatically’ so you can keep listening to what’s playing on your mobile (this is one of the settings I recommend enabling for music lovers), now when you enter the vehicle it will appear on your screen to save time.

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