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TL;DR
- Google is testing new Android Auto icons to display cellular status, in line with Android 16’s icon design.
- We’ve spotted a range of new icons that display the phone’s cellular connectivity strength on the car’s screen.
- The new icons also affirm Google’s work on a light theme for Android Auto, which has been a work in progress since last year.
Google has lately been working to bridge the feature gap between phone navigation and Android Auto. It has recently been testing a color-changing menu for the vehicle right within Android Auto. Now, we’ve spotted another visual change that brings Android Auto closer to the phone.
We recently identified a new set of icons in Android Auto to indicate signal strength. The icons appear rounder, distant from the currently sharp-edged ones you see on Android Auto. We also see new typography indicating the cellular network type, and individual bars for signal strength instead of a shaded triangle.