Can you imagine opening Android Auto and you can’t use some of the most important apps like Waze or WhatsApp? Well, that’s exactly what happened to some users like our colleague Manuel Naranjo from Territorio Samsung.
A new Android Auto error is both curious and frustrating: some apps disappear both in the Android Auto app drawer in the car and in the Customize Apps menu in the mobile settings. Fortunately, there is a solution.
Apps disappear in Android Auto
Android Auto adapts compatible apps to display on the car’s screen, making them as useful as your apps. And if suddenly Apps you use on Android Auto disappear for no apparent reason? Then you will suffer from the latest Android system error for the car.
The symptoms are: you connect your cell phone to the car and you realize that apps that were there before no longer appearlike WhatsApp or Waze. It’s as if you didn’t have them installed on your mobile and, therefore, they don’t appear in Android Auto. Or as if you had gone to the Android Auto settings to hide these applications, although those who suffer from this error have had the unpleasant surprise that the applications do not appear there either and therefore cannot be reactivated.
We have received reports that this bug has been fixed at least on some Samsung, Realme and Xiaomi phones. This does not seem to be too widespread, but since it affects mobile phones with Android layers as different as the previous ones, it seems clear that it is an error of the system and not of the mobile in question.
And how is this solved? Typical solutions to Android Auto problems, such as updating to a later version, don’t seem to work, although something as simple as uninstalling the app that disappeared and reinstalling it does. It’s not optimal, but in a desperate situation, it’s easier than other tasks.
Manuel, on the other hand, arranged it differently: enable permission for the app to run in the background Available in some layers. This shouldn’t affect whether or not the app appears in Android Auto, but if you encounter this error and nothing fixes it, you can try seeing if your layer has this setting.
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