Android Auto is essential if you want to access your phone from your car's infotainment system without ever having to glance at the screen. But as convenient as it is, all those notifications that keep popping up while you're driving are more than a little annoying—they can also be a dangerous distraction. While Android Auto has a built-in option to turn off message notifications, it's not perfect if you still want alerts from specific apps or people. Fortunately, there's a more advanced way to customize these notifications while driving—but the catch is that the option isn't inside Android Auto itself. This setting turns on Do Not Disturb when your phone connects to your car If you hate getting notifications while driving, this is the option to enable One of the biggest annoyances I've had since I started using Android Auto is all the notifications I keep getting while I'm driving. While I don’t mind being notified if one of my parents is calling or messaging me, I don’t really appreciate the distraction caused by my friend's back-to-back Discord messages appearing on my car's screen. By default, Android Auto lets you turn message notifications on and off, and you can even silence group chats, but it still lacks the more refined settings that many of us crave. Thankfully, most newer Android phones have a special Driving mode that you can enable in the phone's settings. It's separate from Android Auto, but it integrates really well because it turns on when your phone recognizes that it's connected to an Android Auto display. I wish Android Auto had these 4 CarPlay features CarPlay is still the best way to use your phone in the car. The exact way this option behaves varies between phone brands. On my OnePlus 15, the option just enables