Android Auto update adds full Material You color accents to match your phone [Gallery] – 9to5Google
Google is rolling out a new Android Auto update that delivers full support for Material You color accents based on your phone’s wallpaper, building on previous updates.
As we reported late last year, Google was starting to implement support for Material You color themes in Android Auto 13.4. At the time, though, this was limited to only a couple of colors, not fully matching what was available on your phone’s wallpaper all of the time.
Now, that seems to be changing.
We’ve observed on Android Auto 14.9, the latest beta update, that Material You colors are now respected throughout the experience. You can see this most easily through the Settings app on Android Auto, as well as in notifications as we showed back in December. Alongside the accent colors of buttons changing, the entire background also gets a slight tint.
Unlike how it performed last year, too, Android Auto now reflects changes to Material You color accents whenever you change the wallpaper. It doesn’t always react to manual changes to color themes on Pixel, but it immediately adjusts to any wallpaper changes in our testing.
While we’re seeing this on the latest beta release, it may be available more broadly as some users have noticed the change over the past day. Notably, we didn’t see it on our first attempt, meaning this could be a server-side change. As was the case when Google first introduced color accents, turning off the option to match your phone’s wallpaper on Android Auto disables the accent colors.
However the rollout is being handled, it’s certainly nice to finally have proper Material You color theming on Android Auto.
Have you noticed the change yet?
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