Users of both the desktop and mobile app find their Discourse sessions auto logout after a period of time. Is this configurable, and if so, how?

Do you have “persistent sessions” checked and “log out strict” unchecked ? Are you frequently rebuilding? Do you have any integrations set up? You said “period of time”, that implies that this happens after a very specific interval?

How to change the auto logout function?

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) January 22, 2026, 12:09pm 2

Admin - Site Settings - Login - Maximum session age

This amount is in hours so the default is 1440 hours → 60 days

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How to change the auto logout function?

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