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Google is pulling the plug on Android Auto updates for some older phones

Google is pulling the plug on Android Auto updates for some older phones

Update: 2025-10-17
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If you have an older Android phone, there's a chance it might not support the latest versions of Android Auto much longer. In July 2024, Google announced that to run the newest versions of Android Auto, your phone would need to be running Android 9.0 or higher. However, it never actually made the change, and its latest updates continued to support Android 8.0 and above. Fast-forward more than a year later, and that is finally about to change.

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Google is pulling the plug on Android Auto updates for some older phones

Google is pulling the plug on Android Auto updates for some older phones

Craig Donaldson