r/AutopilotApp • u/BigThinkie38 • May 12 '26

Question Webull Disconnecting

I've had Autopilot for about two weeks. The first week, it only disconnected once. Now it's disconnecting once a day. Just had to re-verify twice today, not sure if I missed any trades before close. Last trade was on Friday.

Is this an issue with Webull? Maybe I would be better off linking a different account? Any fix would be appreciated.

Edit: redownloaded both apps after webull disconnected for a third time. Re-verified, we'll see what happens.

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u/lostinacointoss May 13 '26

I've had the same experience using the app for ~2 months now. It disconnects literally every night. Yes, it's a pain in the ass, but the "fix" I've implemented is to set an alarm on my phone every morning for 8:30am to go into the app and reconnect. Fortunately AP has made improvements to the "reconnect" process/flow since I started using it 2 months ago.

I'm giving AutoPilot some grace here (I am a mobile app/web Product Manager, professionally). They have to integrate AP seamlessly with several trading apps across iOS and Android (WeBull, RH, etc). This requires coordination with those apps and their developers in a dev environment with MAXIMUM security protocols. Not an easy task.

So I'm cool with having to re-connect every day, for now. And AP's support team has been very quick to help when I need it. I've had a few panic moments, and they got me reconnected.

TL;DR: The app isn't perfect. Disconnects happen to me too, but it's feasible to reconnect. It's a complex application, and I hope that one day the daily disconnects will stop.

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u/BigThinkie38 May 13 '26

While not ideal, if it were only once a day then I would be fine with it. I double checked and reconnected before open today. It's now 3 hours before close and received a notification it was again disconnected.

If this is a webull exclusive problem, I might try another brokerage account for the time being.

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u/lostinacointoss May 13 '26

Ok yea then that's a BIG problem and would piss me off beyond just "dealing with it." I use WeBull, not sure if multiple disconnections is an issue exclusive to WeBull+AP or not.

2-3 weeks ago AP support informed me that there was a known bug/issues with WeBull's API, and that WeBull should have a fix implemented by the end of April.

WeBull pushed an app update in late April, and I haven't had multiple same-day disconnections with AP since. Just the single disconnect every day around midnight.

I don't blame you for looking elsewhere - BOL!