Google has made Android Auto work more like your phone — for better or worse

Five years after Android Auto launched, Google announced the platform’s first major refresh at Google I/O earlier this year. That refresh — which brings an updated layout, app launcher, a notification tab, new typeface, and dark mode by default — is starting to arrive on Android phones across the world this week. By and large, Android Auto looks and feels a lot more like your Android phone now, with big, colorful icons that better highlight all the things you can do rather than have you go hunting for apps under various tabs.

In the old version of Android Auto, there were small icons along the bottom navigation bar that split everything into categories: navigation, calls, home screen, music, and exit. Now, everything is condensed into...

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