[BUG] Android: All permission grants lost on any navigation away from session (screen off, app switch, in-app navigation)

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What's Wrong?

[BUG] Android: All permission grants lost on any navigation away from session (screen off, app switch, in-app navigation)

Bug Report

Product: Claude mobile app (Android)
Device: Samsung Galaxy S24, latest software update
Claude Code version: Latest as of March 2026

Description

Permission grants for a Claude Code session are not persisted across any form of session interruption on Android. This includes:

• Android app switcher (switching to another app and back)
• Device screen turning off / screen saver activating
• Navigating away from the session within the app itself (e.g. switching to another conversation and back)

Every single previously-granted permission is re-prompted. In sessions with many tool calls, this means a massive backlog of re-approvals — in my case, 50+ permission prompts that must all be re-confirmed just to continue working.

This makes Claude Code on Android effectively unusable for any non-trivial session.

Related Issues

• #28780 — Same bug, reported on OnePlus 7T. Closed as duplicate, but the issue it was duped against appears to be a Windows-specific permissions persistence bug, which is a different root cause.
• #24381 — Windows permission preferences not persisting across sessions (different platform, different trigger)

What Should Happen?

Expected Behavior

Permission grants should persist for the duration of the session, surviving app backgrounding, screen off, and in-app navigation.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Claude mobile app on Android (Samsung S24)
2. Connect to a Claude Code session that requires directory/tool permissions
3. Grant permissions as prompted (accumulate many over a working session)
4. Trigger any of: screen off, app switch, or in-app navigation away from the session
5. Return to the session
6. Observe: all previously granted permissions are re-prompted

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

No, this never worked

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.71

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Other

Terminal/Shell

Other

Additional Information

This is for remote control via Android of an Ubuntu session running in tmux.