2007 ES350

Is there a way to make the default navigation go straight to the Climate or Audio settings on car start up? Right now the display goes straight to the screen where you have to hit "Agree" than it goes to the navigation map

Yes but not sure if it works on pre-refresh models. There is a function in Setup - Vehicle Personalization where you can turn off the system from going back to the map. If you set that up, the system will stay on the last screen you were on, in your case Audio or Climate, so when you turn the car on, it will be on that menu item.

Only side effect is Vehicle Maintenance reminders that you manually program in the navigation will not show up until you go to the Map and Accept the terms and conditions.

Hmmm- I have that turned off and the agree thingy still comes up. I'll give it one more try. I know I usually stay on Climate before turning the car off

I may take a trip to the dealer and see of they may have an answer if this doesn't work

Correction, I looked into the Setup settings. The feature I mentioned is found under General in Setup. “Auto Screen Change”

The screenshots are from a 2010 RX450h, but the menu structure should be the same.

If your navigation defaults to the safety screen, then you do not have the Auto Screen Change set to OFF.

Yep, did that. Still goes to that accept terms screen. So annoying.