No. Just pushed once will enable it. What I've discovered, that may be your situation, is that if you turn the headlights off manually, like if you're sitting in the car someplace for a while, and then get out of the car, once you get back in and drive off, you will need to re-enable the high beams (by pushing the stalk once) for auto high beams to work again. In other words, once you turn off the headlights, when they're turned back on, auto high beams needs to be re-enabled.