I plan to upgrade my phone from an iPhone 12 to the Galaxy Z Fold 5 but before I spent all of that money I wanted to be sure that the Android Auto app would work on the phone and on my car (2022 Jeep Wrangler). The Jeep docs say it is capable of running Android Auto. Since I don't yet have the phone I decided to try using my Tab A7 Lite. It is running Android 13 and my understanding is that AA is built into all Android OS version 10 and later, and I could not find AA for the tablet in the Google Play store.
But when I connected the tablet to the car AA would not run. The tablet gave me a message telling me that there were no apps on the tablet that worked with this system. I got out an old Android phone (Motorola G7) running Android 10 and tried that. It worked and I could run the apps on it on my Jeep, but when I tried using the Tab A7 Lite I again got the "no thank you" message.
Is there some reason AA won't work on the Tab A7 Lite? Or could it be that the Android OS version is too new? Or does AA only work with phones? I don't want to spend all of that money only to find out that I can't use Google Maps through my Jeep to help me avoid getting lost when in places I am not familiar with.
