I've driven thousands of miles with Android Auto - these 8 tips keep my phone cool

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Android Auto tin origin your telephone to overheat owed to its intensive information usage.
• There are respective tricks you tin usage to support your telephone cool.
• Closing apps, moving your car's AC, and utilizing a caller cablegram tin each help.

Android Auto tin beryllium an incredibly utile tool, but it's beauteous taxing connected your phone. 

When your instrumentality is navigating, streaming music, charging, sending data, and much astatine the aforesaid time, it's nary astonishment it mightiness commencement to tally blistery -- particularly if you unrecorded successful a lukewarm climate. I've seen precocious somesthesia warnings connected my telephone respective times portion utilizing Android Auto, and it's frustrating to person to disconnect oregon adjacent crook disconnected your instrumentality erstwhile you request it most.

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8 elemental ways to support your telephone from overheating

Fortunately, determination are respective tricks you tin employment to assistance support your telephone chill portion moving Android Auto. These mightiness beryllium elemental fixes, but they tin person a large impact. Here's the champion mode to halt your telephone from overheating.

1. Go wired alternatively of wireless

Phones thin to overheat erstwhile they're overworked, and switching to a wired transportation tin help. Android Auto successful wireless mode perpetually uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth together, and utilizing a cablegram takes immoderate enactment disconnected your device.

2. Remove your case

Especially portion moving demanding apps similar navigation and euphony astatine the aforesaid time, your telephone tin usage a small breathing room. This mightiness not marque overmuch quality if you person a mean case, but if you person a rugged oregon dense case, it's a bully thought to instrumentality your telephone retired of its lawsuit for a agelong drive. 

3. Turn disconnected your phone's screen 

Your phone's surface uses a batch of power, which successful crook makes your instrumentality tally warmer. If you're utilizing Android Auto, you apt don't request your phone's surface successful summation to your car's screen, truthful crook disconnected your phone's show oregon astatine slightest little its brightness.

4. Use your car's AC

It's the lowest of low-tech fixes, but if you're consistently seeing overheating problems with Android Auto, constituent 1 of your car's vents toward your telephone (provided you're utilizing AC and not heat). Just arsenic gaming PCs usage CPU fans to support the computer's internals cool, airflow tin marque a important quality successful your phone, too. 

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If you're experiencing overheating issues, you'll astir apt spot an contiguous somesthesia driblet and show boost with a elemental redirection of a vent. There are adjacent phone mounts that clip straight into a vent, and a batch of them treble arsenic wireless chargers.

5. Only usage prime cables

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Cheap cables oregon cables that are worn from years of usage tin beryllium a large origin of your telephone overheating. Android Auto pushes a batch of data, and a atrocious cablegram tin pb your telephone to repeatedly link and disconnect, gully much powerfulness than necessary, oregon conflict to charge, each of which tin origin heat. 

Make definite you person a high-quality cablegram that supports some accelerated information transportation and charging, and that it's not unnecessarily long, which tin origin electrical resistance. (A 3-foot enactment is astir apt best.)

6. Close unnecessary apps

Closing apps you don't request tin beryllium amazingly effectual astatine keeping your telephone cool, particularly connected older devices. Your telephone is already taxed portion moving Android Auto, truthful adjacent immoderate societal media apps that mightiness beryllium refreshing. Photo backup apps, messaging apps, and adjacent buying apps are accustomed culprits, but if you privation to beryllium safe, restart your telephone earlier firing up Android Auto.  

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7. Download maps offline

Especially connected a agelong roadworthy travel oregon a thrust successful an country with spotty service, downloading a representation tin assistance forestall your telephone from overheating (you tin find the instructions here). Navigation apps propulsion a batch of information portion they're successful use, and offline maps tin trim immoderate of that strain. As agelong arsenic you inactive person a connection, you'll inactive get features similar real-time postulation and mishap reports. 

8. Disable accelerated charging

Fast charging generates much vigor connected your device, and portion your telephone tin usually grip it conscionable fine, it tin origin occupation if it's doing respective different things simultaneously. Without accelerated charging, your telephone inactive charges, conscionable astatine a slower gait that creates little heat. 

Repeated sessions charging successful a blistery car tin beryllium atrocious for your artillery anyway, truthful adjacent if you're not seeing overheating issues, it's a bully thought to usage dilatory charging successful a vehicle. To disable accelerated charging, hunt for it successful your settings and toggle it off.