Delete Radio Preset

[SomethingSomething]

I can’t figure out how to delete a radio preset that I’ve added. A station changed format and I no longer want it to be a stop as I cycle through my presets. I can only see how to overwrite an existing preset with another station, but I don’t want to overwrite it, I just want to get rid of it entirely. I’ve tried long pressing, dragging it out of the preset row, can’t figure it out.

Yes I listen to the radio sometimes. Pretty sure this qualifies as “tell me you’re old without telling me you’re old.” In my defense, at least it’s FM…

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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[akoza]

It boggles my mind that you can't delete a station. I get this was also the case with older radios where you had 5-6 physical buttons, but at least there was no flipping through them with steering wheel controls and the number of presets never changed. Here we start off with no stations, and if you accidentally add too many, you have to live with that forever.

I was looking around in the settings and thought this may potentially work. I didn't want to test it myself though in case something went wrong (I don't feel like going to the dealer). If you're brave enough and don't mind seeing the dealer if anything goes wrong, give it a try.

First write down all your presets so you don't forget them since this will probably reset your presets
- Go to General Settings > System > Detail Information > App Manager
- Scroll down to Radio
- Tap Storage
- There are big green buttons at the top for Clear Data and Clear Cache. Clear data gives you a warning that it will log you out of everything and delete settings (this is probably standard Android jargon so I don't know how much pain it will actually do).

Please let us know the results if you do end up trying this.

Alternatively you can just duplicate your existing stations so rotating through the entire list will go through each one twice (but then you'll run into the same problem if one of your current ones changes format).

 

[SomethingSomething]

I had high hopes for the "Clear Data" approach but unfortunately it didn't seem to do anything. I've found other Honda forums complaining about the same issue. They mentioned that in some cases if enough people had complained to Honda it might have gotten fixed in some OTA update but I won't hold my breath. I suspect a full reset of the head unit might be the only solution and that feels more drastic than I care to try given all the settings I'd need to redo. It'd be cool if I could somehow back up and restore all my settings but unfortunately that'd probably restore the preset I don't want.

I did find something in the owner's manual called TuneMix that seems to allow deletion of presets but it seems to be specific to SiriusXM.

Agree, it's really hard to believe you can't delete a preset, it seems like such an obvious thing if you can add a preset. But I'll also say that in a couple Kenwood AA/CP head units I installed in the last couple years in other cars, those also lacked the ability to delete a preset. I ended up just duplicating other existing presets, and that's likely what I'll do here. I may also call Acura and complain just in case.

 

[SomethingSomething]

I chatted with Acura and they confirmed there's no way to do it, perhaps an update could come that would allow it.

On the bright side, it's a funny prank to pull on a Honda-owning friend right? Give them eternal presets they don't want? The gift that keeps on giving.

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