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Disable other annoyances

The more modern cars are, the more annoying they become

Mute the seatbelt chime

Toyota's seatbelt chime in this Camry has to be the worst in this industry. It's not a chime, it's a fucking siren. Either Toyota Techstream (if you can get your hands on it) or the Carista app over any generic ELM327 OBD Bluetooth/Wi-Fi adapters can turn the buzzers off. Each buzzer for driver/front passenger/rear passenger can be turned off separately

Turn off Body Control with Torque Demand

The car by default cut torque when it thinks there's too much pitch and bounce. I don't think you know better than I do on the roads I travel, and this feature causes throttle response to be wildly inconsistent. Put "Body Control with Torque" into Google and there are many people having the same issue. Again, Techstream/Carista can turn this off

Bypass motion lockout

I can kinda understand CarPlay/Android Auto keyboard locked out, but no album art for music player in motion, WTF? TBW, found something on Toyota forums but haven't been able to verify that the pinout of my Camry's Panasonic head unit (for JBL sound system) is consistent with other markets

NAViKS and Beat-Sonic sell wiring harnesses to bypass lockout for around $200 if you want the path of least resistance