How Android Auto's dual SIM support works

Update after update Android Auto becomes a more and more stable and complete platform thanks to the constant modernization and above all optimization work by Google.

Among the latest innovations that most of all have found consensus, the dual SIM support that finally allows you to make phone calls by choosing which SIM card to use. Let's find out more and see how this new option works in detail.

Dual SIM support of Android Auto

Anyone who uses two SIMs on the same smartphone for work or for other reasons will certainly appreciate the new Android Auto function, announced months ago by Mountain View and recently implemented globally.

If in reception, there were in fact no problems in this regard, because it worked with both SIMs even before this last update, the problem arose however when you wanted to make a phone call from Android Auto using not the main SIM / default, but the secondary.

Here, now this operation is feasible and immediate because, through a pop-up shown on the screen on the car infotainment when the call function of the Phone app starts, it allows the user to independently choose which SIM to use for making calls. . All very simple.

How to get the function

It has now been a few weeks since Google began to distribute this dual SIM support for Android Auto on a global scale and, that applies to any novelty of this kind, it may still be early for everyone to have received the function and can therefore already use it.

It is therefore advisable to update Android Auto from your smartphone, or, for the more impatient, try to join the beta program of the platform, or perhaps force the installation of the latest version available by downloading the latest APK file from APKMirror.

Otherwise, just be patient a little longer because it is probably simply a server-side update which, as always, needs time to arrive on everyone's devices.