You can make the display shutdown with the switch in the dash and then it won't come on again until you tell it. If you just switch off on the switch in the centre consol, it will always behave as you describe.
Push down on the volume keeps it off too.
I'd prefer it if it did work that way, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I'm fairly sure my screen will just come up again next time if I've put the screen down using the dash button.From memory if you push the button on the dash it puts the screen down and it stays down the next time you start the car, BUT if the radio was on it will still be on.
On my A3 if I push and hold down the Volume control it switches of the "Entertainment system" and a message comes up in the top section of the DIS to say it's been switched off. Just a quick press will mute the sound but a longer press will switch it off and lower the screen. It will NOT come on again when the ignition is turned on, only when you select Radio or Media using the MMI buttons.I think I'm right in saying that pushing the dash button simply puts the screen down, and it resets and comes up again next time you turn the ignition on. Pressing the volume knob just mutes the sound, and it resets and un-mutes next time you turn the ignition on.
Pressing and holding the volume knob turns the MMI off (and so puts the screen down). I think this is remembered, and it won't switch on next time you turn on the ignition. You have to press the volume knob to switch it on again.
Just to confirm. The only way to not have the screen pop up when you start the car is to turn off the MMI (hold volume button down for a couple of seconds)
I can't get my head round this annoying glitch either.
I do not want the car to keep playing music every time I start the car - having to reach for the volume knob each and every time to turn it down.
BUT ... I do want the mmi screen on display and phone connected etc ... but I don't think this is possible .... is it ?
Sorry if this is a RTFM, but I'm out and about and just wondered why the stereo is apparently so disobedient.
It always switches on with the ignition, regardless if it was off when the car was last switched off?
I agree that this is one of the less friendly features. And you are correct that turning off the mmi is the only way to prevent it coming on when you start up.....just to add if you do that it switches off everything in the MMI, not just the radio, so phone and sat nav as well
Really? My DIS stays on the selection I want all the time - or am I mis-understanding?actually there are several Audi flawed features where there is no memory, such as the silly Dash Information System between the two main gauges...set it to something you prefer, turn off the ignition, restart, and it goes back to the basic mileage/clock mode....VERY frustrating.
My 2010 VW Golf...poof, it stays where you last had it no mater what!
Arg Audi!
actually there are several Audi flawed features where there is no memory, such as the silly Dash Information System between the two main gauges...set it to something you prefer, turn off the ignition, restart, and it goes back to the basic mileage/clock mode....VERY frustrating.
My 2010 VW Golf...poof, it stays where you last had it no mater what!
Arg Audi!
Geez, this is almost as 'precious' as the member who moaned the MMI screen was distracting and it was all too much effort pressing one button to retract it!! lol
...........The second I get in mine I just wanna rock.......................
but I just wanna hear the engine & exhaust ... I have no interest in the mmi music or radio
Turn it off then
Envious! perhaps you don't have a US version car, or the S3 is different than the A3. Mine ALWAYS reverts back to clock and odometer, no matter if I had it previously set to average MPG, or the radio station presets, or anything in between.I set mine to have the speed with avg mpg.
It's there when I turn it back on...
But it won't be on if you've turned it off.I do
but shouldn't have to as it shouldn't be on in the first place
You can of course send the screen down while keeping the music/radio playing. But you have to do that each time.I have the "Entertainment System" switched off all the time with the MMI screen down. The only time it pops up is when I reverse and it pops up for the reversing camera. As soon as I de-select reverse it goes down and stays down. If I want to listen to anything I just select radio or media and then switch it off when I no longer want it using a long press on the volume control.