{"id":284035,"date":"2026-06-30T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/i-stopped-an-android-auto-disconnect-loop-by-modifying-one-background-power-setting\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:00:16","slug":"i-stopped-an-android-auto-disconnect-loop-by-modifying-one-background-power-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/i-stopped-an-android-auto-disconnect-loop-by-modifying-one-background-power-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"I stopped an Android Auto disconnect loop by modifying one background power setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-stopped-an-android-auto-disconnect-loop-by-modifying-one-background-power-setting\/\">I stopped an Android Auto disconnect loop by modifying one background power setting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-stopped-an-android-auto-disconnect-loop-by-modifying-one-background-power-setting\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-stopped-an-android-auto-disconnect-loop-by-modifying-one-background-power-setting\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I use Android Auto practically every time I drive, and it&#8217;s been infinitely useful for longer drives where I want easy access to my media and navigation.<\/p>\n<p>So understandably, random disconnects have quickly become one of my biggest frustrations with Android Auto.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>The connection drops without warning, interrupts my navigation, music, and calls before reconnecting a few moments later.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I could connect it via USB, but I like my wireless Android Auto.<\/p>\n<p>After trying the usual fixes, I found one overlooked battery setting on my phone that was causing this problem.<\/p>\n<p>Changing the setting took less than a minute, and since then Android Auto has stayed reliably connected. Here&#8217;s what I changed.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThe Android Auto settings that stopped my calls from cutting out<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">After endless cable swaps and resets, I found the real reason Android Auto kept disconnecting<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-android-39-s-battery-optimization-was-causing-the-problem\">\n                        Why Android&#8217;s battery optimization was causing the problem<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"allowing-unrestricted-background-use-is-the-fix\">\n            Allowing unrestricted background use is&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-stopped-an-android-auto-disconnect-loop-by-modifying-one-background-power-setting\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped an Android Auto disconnect loop by modifying one background power setting https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-stopped-an-android-auto-disconnect-loop-by-modifying-one-background-power-setting\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/01\/android-auto-in-car.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284035"}],"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=284035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284037,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284035\/revisions\/284037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}