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Bluetooth prioritization is broken

Supratim Samanta
Geek Culture
4 min readJan 27, 2023

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Annoying issues with Bluetooth prioritization.

Today I want to discuss an issue, which has been pestering me for a long time. I have seen a lot of people talk about it, in forums, and Q&As, but there is not a single usable solution in sight. We have learned to live with it.

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Give you a few scenarios…

You are listening to some music in your headphone and are totally in the mood, your small kid opens the other pair of your truly wireless headphone pair. Suddenly, you can’t hear anything. The music is now playing on your other pair.

You are having your headset on and in an important call, you get into a car and the call is directed to the car. You may not want it. You were planning to route the call via headset only.

You are driving and your kids are sleeping and you want to listen to some music on your headphone, as soon as you start the music, it starts loudly on the car stereo, though you just put on the headset on your ear and you were expecting as the headset was added later point of time and thereby would have higher priority than the car stereo so you were expecting the audio to come to form the headset.

All these scenarios I have faced and that has always annoyed me immensely. We know this is an…

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Supratim Samanta
Geek Culture

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