Temporarily turn off/stop Android Auto?

[gduprey]

Howdy,

Often use Waze via Android Auto for navigation, especially in areas where I'm not familiar. It's great, but it runs my battery down and heats my phone up, even when attempting to charge the phone at the same time. It's an acceptable trade-off for being able to have Waze do it's routing magic.

But when I know the area or expect to want to use a DC Fast charger, I want to use the native Ford Nav. Which I can, easily enough, but even when Ford Nav is running, once Android Auto starts, I cannot see a way to "stop" it for a given trip.

I don't want to disable Android Auto's default "auto start" policy - I use it easily 80% of the time.

I'm just looking for a way that, once it starts, I can shut it down for a trip and it actually stops running (and stops draining/heating my phone)

I've tried swiping the Android Auto "tile" on the MacheE down (for the garbage can) and it goes away, but the phone is still running Android Auto. I've tried stopping it on the phone, but it "springs back" to life within seconds.

I really don't want to have to dig through settings to turn auto-start off and then back on each time, so hoping I'm missing something "obvious" (or at least "clever") on how to stop it for just a single trip

Thanks for any pointers

Gerry

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[GuliblGuy]

Go to settings, phones, click on your profile, click the android auto button, and it will disconnect.

 

[gduprey]

I feel I tried that and it just reconnected, but will give it a shot! Thanks!

 

[hack-e]

Go to settings, phones, click on your profile, click the android auto button, and it will disconnect.

I have used this many, many times. It works great.

 

[JamieLV]

I just tried this and it worked for me. My Android Auto happened to update to Coolwalk yesterday, so don't know if it was different before. I had navigation going in Waze. My first attempt was just to use voice to open Ford navigation. Kept getting the message it was not loaded yet and to wait. What did work was just clicking the Ford Sync icon in AA then navigation and I was quickly out of Waze and in Ford navigation.

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