{"id":227156,"date":"2026-03-24T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/does-your-android-auto-keep-disconnecting-what-to-do-about-it-for-now\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:45:12","slug":"does-your-android-auto-keep-disconnecting-what-to-do-about-it-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/does-your-android-auto-keep-disconnecting-what-to-do-about-it-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Does your Android Auto keep disconnecting?\u00a0What to do about it &#8211; for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/does-android-auto-keep-disconnecting-what-to-do-about-it\/\">Does your Android Auto keep disconnecting?\u00a0What to do about it &#8211; for now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/does-android-auto-keep-disconnecting-what-to-do-about-it\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/does-android-auto-keep-disconnecting-what-to-do-about-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 14:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Kerry Wan\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Android Auto users are experiencing connection issues.<\/li>\n<li>Most problems are tied to either Pixel or Galaxy phones.<\/li>\n<li>There are a few temporary fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had problems with your vehicle&#8217;s Android Auto over the past few days, you&#8217;re not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, posts began surfacing across several platforms, including Reddit, Google&#8217;s official support forum, and others, detailing how Android Auto either won&#8217;t hold a connection or won&#8217;t connect at all. Sometimes users report that the connection fixes after a few seconds, and sometimes after a few minutes. Both wired and wireless connections are encountering problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: Your Android Auto just got 5 useful upgrades for free &#8211; and Google isn&#8217;t done<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Considering that Android Auto handles calls, music, and navigation, the issues are causing quite a bit of frustration.  <\/p>\n<p>While most reports are coming from Pixel users, several Samsung users have reported similar problems. Several generations of Pixel phones are experiencing problems, but it&#8217;s mostly the Galaxy S26 on Samsung&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of users are suggesting that the issue could be related to the March Pixel Drop a few weeks ago, but that wouldn&#8217;t explain the Samsung issues.<\/p>\n<h2>How to fix the Android Auto connection issue<\/h2>\n<p>There&#8217;s no official fix yet. If you need to use Android Auto for navigation or other important features, there are some things you can try.<\/p>\n<p>Some users have reported that reverting to an older version of Android Auto works temporarily, but the system forces you to update to the latest (non-functioning) version within a day. Other users have said that unpairing the phone, rebooting it, and then pairing it again works for a while, but that method eventually stops working as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: Google just gave Android Auto its most significant update yet &#8211; and we tested it on the road<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few users have had success by rebooting the car&#8217;s system (usually by holding the power button until&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/does-android-auto-keep-disconnecting-what-to-do-about-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your Android Auto keep disconnecting?\u00a0What to do about it &#8211; for now https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/does-android-auto-keep-disconnecting-what-to-do-about-it\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/807c52fb0643dbcb02f875d2aec555137502c0de\/2025\/11\/20\/68f3b9b8-87f3-4daa-9f32-00f43d63532f\/20251119-113740.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,86],"class_list":["post-227156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227158,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227156\/revisions\/227158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}