Post #1336181

2026-03-30 20:53 UTC

Someone, perhaps at Apple: Please explain this behavior. I turn on my Bluetooth headphones. I watch a video on my Mac. The video ends. I turn off the headphones. Some other device, perhaps a phone or iPad, elsewhere in the room immediately starts playing music through its speakers using the Music app. I did not ask for this. I do not want this. I think this is an inexplicable design choice. I just turned the headphones off; why is that a signal I want to listen to something somewhere, anywhere that you can find? Baffling.

Replies (6)

@shtrom@piaille.fr 2026-03-30 21:05

@robpike@hachyderm.io @foone@digipres.club the zeitgeist this morning https://digipres.club/@foone/116320096630256445

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@mosen@hachyderm.io 2026-03-30 21:37

@robpike@hachyderm.io it’s actually worse on my Sony headphones because it’s an indeterministic race between all the paired devices to connect, and I get the first two fastest devices until I open the app to cull connections. Bluetooth multipoint just absolutely sucks. Go back to the hifi tuner knob to select inputs or figure something out in software.

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@koushiniku@hachyderm.io 2026-03-30 22:16

@robpike@hachyderm.io My favorite is when I cannot ever bind my phone to the car’s Bluetooth, because when wife or MIL start the car and I’m in the house, my phone switches to it.

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@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 02:53

@robpike@hachyderm.io This happens at work. A coworker is listening to music, then walks away. At that point, the music is now playing through the speaker instead of his BTLE headphones. Very annoying in an open office setting.

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@commaok@inuh.net 2026-03-31 16:37

@robpike@hachyderm.io exhibit A in “if you can’t make magic work reliably, give the user explicit control instead”. Apple burning billions of dollars fixing audio routing would do far, far more for their brand than any amount of AI integration.

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@cpurdy@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 22:04

@robpike@hachyderm.io It's obvious you don't understand and appreciate good UX design.

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