You posted, and Volvo listened. After years of embracing the touchscreen-everything philosophy, the Swedish automaker is admitting that putting nearly every function behind a display may not have been such a brilliant idea after all. Physical controls are coming back. Well, at least some of them, anyway.
Speaking during the Q&A session following the Strategy Update 2026 this week, the company's returning design boss said the goal is to rethink how drivers interact with their cars. The lack of physical controls is one of the areas Thomas Ingenlath wants to address after returning to Volvo, with the company acknowledging that customers and journalists have become increasingly critical of screen-heavy interiors.
