See safe mode (device recovery).
Verification of premium ownership may fail if there’s a problem communicating with the Google Play Store app, try rebooting the device. See premium page for further information.
The background service responsible for running the flows shouldn’t use much battery. However, editing flows often on the flowchart screen do use more battery. Reset the battery statistics, don’t use the graphical user interface for a while, then check the statistics again.
Also, if your flow has a loop in it, make sure there’s a “When …” block somewhere (see Proceed option), otherwise it will run continuously.
A flow should only stop if an error occurs, or you explicitly stop it. Remember that in order to keep a flow running, the last block has to be connected with a path back to the beginning creating a loop. A flow will stop when it reach an unconnected dot.
Apps that are enabled as Device administrator can’t be uninstalled until disabled. Disable it in Automate settings or the system Device administrator settings.
Automate will install permission contained within it’s own package (apk) if Unknown source is enabled in your phones security settings. If the Install button doesn’t respond in the package installer app, try disabling all screen filter apps used to lower the brightness, as they may interfere with the button.
If a flow stops working, with an “Failed to read…” error after you’ve upgraded to a newer Android version, you’ll have to reconfigure all the App start shortcut and Plug-in blocks. This happens when Android has changed its internal data format.
If Automate crashed when starting a flow, try increasing the stack size in Automate settings.
The Automate “running” notification must be showing because Android require it to keep a background service running, without it Automate would become very unreliable. Disabling notification for Automate in the device Apps settings will prevent all notifications from showing, including the Notification show block, it may also prevent the Toast show block from displaying “Toast” messages.