Android Auto won't connect with VPN on

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Hi all. Due to absurd censorship laws on my country, certain sites (including Reddit) are blocked. For this reason I always keep a VPN, specifically Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 enabled on my phone.

My phone usually connects just fine to my car’s Android Auto. This morning however it suddenly just won’t connect if the VPN is still on. Having to keep turning on and off my VPN kinda defeats Android Auto’s convenience of automatically connecting.

I’m wondering if anyone else had this problem? What’s the solution? Or any suggestions? Thanks.

Edit: things I have tried include:

  1. Removing my phone from AA and vice versa, and then pairing the devices back
  2. Disabling and reenabling Android Auto from my phone
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Does your vpn have split tunneling? You need to tell the vpn to allow AA to go through.

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I’m confused, setting a custom DNS server is not a VPN?

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I think it was an android auto update as I had the same message on my phone a few days ago

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Some VPN apps, like PIA, allow for excluding certain apps to be routed via VPN.

See if yours has it and if it does, exclude the AA app.

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I don’t have any problem with a VPN or DNS settings with AA. It will even run fine when offline in an underground garage…I don’t think your issue is related to the VPN.

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I think it does but to set it up I can’t just choose the app I want to exclude, it asks me for either an IP address or a domain. Does Android Auto even have those? I’m not sure how things work here

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I can confirm that. Years ago I have to bypass AA (on my Wireguard client settings).

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OP is mixing up using a DNS with using a proxy. Using cloud flares 1.1.1.1 is not equal tu using a proxy, it just calls a different Domain Name Server than the regular google DNS. The DNS has one job, and it’s nothing like a VPN- it tells your browser what IP address you are trying to reach when you type the human understandable www.something.com - the machine needs to is to be translated to an IP address like 172.123.4.5

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Exactly this. I had the same issue when I first installed adguard but excluding aa from protection fixed my issue instantly.

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Setting your DNS server to 1.1.1.1 or anything else is not a VPN

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I excluded Android Auto but it’s still giving me the same problem with adguard.

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You’re probably right but the error notification I got from AA only mentions VPN so…

In any case I’ll try to see if there’s a solution for AA blocking my setting a DNS server