Navigation and radio volume fight

[Ray DG]

Evening all.

I am a pretty new convert to Tesla from Audi and absolutely love my Model 3 AWD LR. However, one issue I am struggling with is balancing the navigation announcements with the radio.

On my Audi's I could set the radio volume and separately set the navigation volume, and when the navigation announced it would hush (automatically reduce) the volume of the radio until the navigation announcement was finished.

In my Model 3 I can set the volumes separately, both of which are at a volume that I can comfortably hear each, but when the navigation announces it seems to just be a fight between that and the radio for which I can hear as they are naturally set at similar volumes.

Is there a feature to hush the radio durning navigation announcements or is this something which would need to be a feature request?

Many thanks.

 

[CharleyBC]

Yeah, my iPhone does the same as your Audi. It backs off the music volume to background level while it speaks navigation instructions, and then the music comes back up again. I keep hoping Tesla will add this in a future update.

 

[Ray DG]

Yeah, my iPhone does the same as your Audi. It backs off the music volume to background level while it speaks navigation instructions, and then the music comes back up again. I keep hoping Tesla will add this in a future update.

Ah ok that confirms it isn't a feature, thanks. I've just been using it with the radio volume low when I have navigation on, but it seems a no-brainer to just reduce the music or radio volume when announcing.

Thanks for your reply.

 

[hari-bhari]

yea its shocking to me that this hasn't been implemented yet. any basic car or phone does it.

 

[Murrayq]

This from Tesla 3 User manual:


Note: If you're playing media and you receive a phone call, or the navigation system is speaking directions, the volume of what you are listening to is temporarily muted.

 

[640k]

there is an option on the navigation setting menu that will change both the volume and if the radio/music volume is lowered during navigation announcements.

couple tips: while the navigation is "announcing", the volume controls ONLY the navigation volume. once the announcement is over, volume controls will resume for music.

i've completely disabled my navigation voice/announcements as it auto-routes me for every appointment now. i don't mind having the blue line but constantly listening to the squawk was driving me bonkers.

 

[Ray DG]

That's great, thanks guys. I'll have a look at more of the settings as I did look but nothing immediately stood out.

Many thanks.

 

[CharleyBC]

This from Tesla 3 User manual:


Note: If you're playing media and you receive a phone call, or the navigation system is speaking directions, the volume of what you are listening to is temporarily muted.

My car needs to RTFM and start working that way!

 

[surfrasch]

I’ve noticed the same issue, but it’s strange......sometimes it does lower the radio volume, other times not. Haven’t figured out the pattern yet.

 

[hari-bhari]

I looked in my car and I can’t find this setting anywhere. Also it’s not mentioned in the manual.

can you post where you see this option?

 

[640k]

I looked in my car and I can’t find this setting anywhere. Also it’s not mentioned in the manual.

can you post where you see this option?

who are you replying to? if you're asking about the NAV volume, it's on the navigation setting screen.

 

[Aellinsar]

there is an option on the navigation setting menu that will change both the volume and if the radio/music volume is lowered during navigation announcements.

couple tips: while the navigation is "announcing", the volume controls ONLY the navigation volume. once the announcement is over, volume controls will resume for music.

i've completely disabled my navigation voice/announcements as it auto-routes me for every appointment now. i don't mind having the blue line but constantly listening to the squawk was driving me bonkers.

Thanks! I didn't realzie I could turn the voice completely off. For most of my nav, I like having it on to check for traffic/accidents/reroute, but once it does that I know where I'm going and don't need it to talk to me. For road trips, I'd turn the voice back on.

 

[hari-bhari]

No I meant lowering the music volume when the navigation speaks

 

[640k]

No I meant lowering the music volume when the navigation speaks

when the navigation is speaking/announcing, you have to wait for the announcement to complete before you can adjust the volume.

 

[Ray DG]

when the navigation is speaking/announcing, you have to wait for the announcement to complete before you can adjust the volume.

I think @hari-bhari may have the same issue as me, which is the nav announcement does not reduce the volume of the radio, which is seems it should. This means when I get a nav announcement when the radio is on it is often hard to hear it as both the nav announcement volume and radio volume are similar, as you would expect. I guess I could set it so the nav volume is much higher than the radio so effectively drowns it out, but that isn't really the solution, it's a bit of a fudge.

I suspect it may be a setting I'm missing or a small bug, but I've tried it a number of times and the radio volume definitely doesn't reduce when the nav announces.

 

[hari-bhari]

I think @hari-bhari may have the same issue as me, which is the nav announcement does not reduce the volume of the radio, which is seems it should. This means when I get a nav announcement when the radio is on it is often hard to hear it as both the nav announcement volume and radio volume are similar, as you would expect. I guess I could set it so the nav volume is much higher than the radio so effectively drowns it out, but that isn't really the solution, it's a bit of a fudge.

I suspect it may be a setting I'm missing or a small bug, but I've tried it a number of times and the radio volume definitely doesn't reduce when the nav announces.

yup, it's a pretty basic feature in every smartphone and car navigation system. automatically decrease the music volume when navi is speaking, and then resume to normal volume when navi is done speaking.

maybe in a future update...

 

[CharleyBC]

The weird thing is it works the other way around, when the car wants to hear you. Click the right scroll button to begin a voice command, and the stereo system pauses. Smart. Simple.

 

[ICE5891]

yea its shocking to me that this hasn't been implemented yet. any basic car or phone does it.

It was shocking in 2019, it is still shocking in 2023. Waze does this so well and is so simple. I really wish tesla would implement it on its on navigation or allow us to use waze as navigation system.

 

[Tripper]

My 2015 MS has always not only reduced media volume but also put navigation voice in the drivers side channel for clarity. Just had mcu1 upgraded and the feature has stopped working. Googled it and found this thread. Hoping it is a setting but can confirm that it is or was a feature that worked really well