Anker Earbud Question
2Do I read this correctly - If I am listening to say - a podcast from my ipad and then get a phone call on my iphone - I have to turn off bluetooth on the ipad and turn it on on the phone to connect. And by that time the call has gone to voice mail. Is that correct?
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Well…yeah. I don’t think any Bluetooth speaker can receive two signals at once. So you would have to be listening on the device you got the call on in order to take the call without needing to reconnect to that device.
Or, if you’re not currently using them on the iphone you would just pause the podcast and pick up the phone with your hand.
@SpecialK that’s one of the nice features of the AirPods, they can automatically switch between devices, you just have to sleep the iPad and respond to the phone call and they switch to answer the phone call without you doing anything else.
@SpecialK While working from home, two of my coworkers have complained about their (over-ear) headsets sometimes messing up and switching to their phone for something trivial when they would rather have stayed properly connected to our meeting.
So I know that some out there do some form of that… but I don’t know how common it is. Or how well it works. Personally, I’ve just dealt with it the pedestrian way (plug in a boring chorded headset for when I really need to use a microphone and can’t risk failures).
@SpecialK @xobzoo There are expensive business class headsets that can do multiple connections. My previous job bought everyone in my group $350 jabra sets that could have 4 connections: usb, 3.5mm, and 2 Bluetooth. Unfortunately they were pretty uncomfortable so I stuck to a comfy gaming headset and just moved the plug as needed.
Maybe it’s just me but I’d just pull out an earbud and, you know, answer the phone normally. I’d find this easier; no connecting and re-connecting, and just put the bud back in your ear when the call ends.