Does your Android Auto keep disconnecting? What to do about it - for now

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Android Auto users are experiencing transportation issues.
• Most problems are tied to either Pixel oregon Galaxy phones.
• There are a fewer impermanent fixes.

If you've had problems with your vehicle's Android Auto implicit the past fewer days, you're not alone.

Last week, posts began surfacing crossed respective platforms, including Reddit, Google's authoritative enactment forum, and others, detailing however Android Auto either won't clasp a transportation oregon won't link astatine all. Sometimes users study that the transportation fixes aft a fewer seconds, and sometimes aft a fewer minutes. Both wired and wireless connections are encountering problems. 

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Considering that Android Auto handles calls, music, and navigation, the issues are causing rather a spot of frustration.

While astir reports are coming from Pixel users, respective Samsung users person reported akin problems. Several generations of Pixel phones are experiencing problems, but it's mostly the Galaxy S26 connected Samsung's side.

A batch of users are suggesting that the contented could beryllium related to the March Pixel Drop a fewer weeks ago, but that wouldn't explicate the Samsung issues.

How to hole the Android Auto transportation issue

There's nary authoritative hole yet. If you request to usage Android Auto for navigation oregon different important features, determination are immoderate things you tin try.

Some users person reported that reverting to an older mentation of Android Auto works temporarily, but the strategy forces you to update to the latest (non-functioning) mentation wrong a day. Other users person said that unpairing the phone, rebooting it, and past pairing it again works for a while, but that method yet stops moving arsenic well. 

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A fewer users person had occurrence by rebooting the car's strategy (usually by holding the powerfulness fastener until it cycles disconnected and connected again). One Galaxy user got Android Auto moving again by starting it done the car's infotainment strategy first, alternatively than opening it connected their phone.  

Google hasn't acknowledged the issues, truthful I've reached retired for much details.