The vast majority of Android Auto users still don’t seem to have Gemini

Ben Schoon | Jan 31 2026 - 5:00 am PT

Google announced the rollout of Gemini for Android Auto in November 2025 and, a couple of months later, it still doesn’t seem to be available for the majority of drivers.

As Google Assistant crumbles in the car, drivers are eagerly awaiting access to Gemini on Android Auto. The feature was first announced in May 2025, with Google confirming rollout plans in November 2025. At the time, Google said the feature would start rolling out that month, but wouldn’t arrive for everyone for a bit longer, with the full rollout happening “over the coming months.”

That’s a vague timeline used pretty frequently by Google, but with Assistant in the state that it is, most people certainly expected it to start sooner than later.

No one thought it’d still be missing for most drivers over two months later.

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Not a day goes by on discussion boards such as the r/AndroidAuto subreddit where drivers mention they still don’t have access to Gemini. In a poll of 9to5Google readers earlier this month, a whopping 92% of respondents said they did not have Gemini on Android Auto yet. Some have reported success with forcing their way into the Android Auto beta program (which we don’t particularly recommend), but there’s no obvious way to get access.

That’s out of nearly 7,200 total votes cast, with a mere 3% having seen Gemini arrive in “the past couple of weeks.”

On the one hand, this could be intentional. Early reactions to Gemini on Android Auto have been mixed, to say the least. While I’m personally a big fan of the conversational nature of Gemini while behind the wheel, there are also bugs such as Gemini continuing to speak after you’ve already completed an action on the touchscreen. Some users have also noticed that Gemini Live both talks to itself and cuts itself off.