Like most individuals, I’ve (non-Apple) Bluetooth multipoint headphones that may concurrently join to 2 gadgets, and it’ll robotically play audio from both a kind of gadgets (however by no means from each concurrently).
Case 1: related to a PC (works high quality)
If I join it to my PC (any fashionable Linux distro; identical habits on Home windows) and my Android telephone, all the pieces works as anticipated:
- I play one thing on the PC, and the headphones begin taking part in it. Any audio from the telephone is discarded. (Except it begins ringing.)
- I cease taking part in audio on the PC. The audio goes silent. A number of seconds later, the headphones can begin taking part in audio from the telephone.
Case 2: related to a Mac (causes bother)
If I join it to a MacBook and my telephone, immediately I am unable to listen to something from my telephone anymore.
- I play one thing on the Mac, and the headphones begin taking part in it. Any audio from the telephone is discarded. (Except it begins ringing.) Thus far, regular habits.
- I cease taking part in audio on the Mac. Or I finish a video-call. The Mac is now silent. Nevertheless, any audio from the telephone remains to be being discarded. This isn’t what the person expects.
- I flip off my headphones. Then flip the headphones again on. If I begin taking part in audio from the telephone instantly, the headphones do play the audio. Nevertheless, if I pause the telephone for just a few seconds, or if I take too lengthy to begin taking part in, the headphones will once more be captured by the Mac and will likely be busy taking part in silence.
The query(s)
Why does it occur?
Why cannot I exploit my headphones with my telephone though the MacBook is taking part in no audio?
How can I remedy this? Is there any workaround?
Why it issues
It’s common to depart the MacBook at our desk whereas we take a break to go to the bathroom or the kitchen. Throughout this era, the MacBook remains to be hogging the headphones, though there may be nothing however silence.
Non-solutions
Asking the person to all the time shut and restart the video name software program (be it Groups, Zooms, or anything) after every name is an excessive amount of work and counter-productive. Individuals have many conferences per day, and plenty of chats as nicely.
Asking the person to shut and reopen the browser is not well worth the bother. Dozens of tabs should be reloaded. It is also counter-productive.
Asking the person to shut Spotify… Nicely, I wasn’t even utilizing Spotify anyway.
Asking the person to shut the app sending audio is not useful both. The person would not know. There isn’t a indication in any respect. Moreover, there isn’t any audible audio, it is silent, and no utility is taking part in audio anymore.
A workaround is to go to the Mac interface and manually disconnect the headphones. This is not resolution once we are already within the kitchen, removed from the MacBook.
Sleeping is a unique problem
It’s fairly well-known that MacBooks hold their Bluetooth enabled even throughout sleep, and they’re going to hold related the headphones though the system is asleep. (I believe it is silly, however Apple will say it is completely different.) The Bluesnooze app is a well known workaround for this case. Or you possibly can use sleepwatcher to run a script to allow/disable bluetooth.
This query, nonetheless, just isn’t about sleeping. It is in regards to the MacBook nonetheless awake, however not taking part in any audio.
