My mornings tend to start with a fairly consistent routine. I grab my coffee, get in my car, and hit the gym. Before leaving the driveway, I usually unlock my phone, open my maps app, start the music, and enable do not disturb, making sure that everything is ready to go before I start driving. These are simple tasks, but fairly annoying to do every day, first thing. That’s why I put together a simple automation using Android’s built-in tools so that I didn’t have to do any of these steps manually again. My goal was to achieve all of this using Android’s built-in tools so that it would work reliably instead of depending on an app that could fail because of battery optimization algorithms. In 2026, my phone should be able to recognize when I’m driving to the gym at a consistent time every morning and set all the modes and rules automatically. Turns out, the tools have always been there. I wasn’t using them. Since then, I’ve been using the automation for the last couple of weeks, and it’s been rock-solid and exactly what I was looking for. It has become my favorite feature on my Google Pixel phone. I started automating these routines on my Google Pixel and streamlined my daily routine My Pixel predicts my entire day now My phone knows when I start driving A Bluetooth connection is the perfect trigger The entire routine revolves around a very simple idea. My phone already knows when I’ve started driving, so it should enable my preferred features and modes when I get in the car. The goal was to set my car’s Bluetooth connection as the trigger for everything else. As soon as my phone connects to my car’s Bluetooth, the wireless automation kicks in. Instead of