[trissylegs]

Another frustrating behavior form Apple is:

* My macbook will leave bluetooth on while it's closed and asleep.

* My BT headphones will connect to my phone and laptop if they're both on me. (It supports 2 simultanous connections)

* If I play music or podcasts I can pause through the headphones

* If I try to play it again it the "Play" action goes the macbook. (Which is effectively off so nothing happens)

* I now cant play anything on my phone. Hitting play on the app will fail.

* If I open the macbook now it will open Apple Music

* Otherwise I can hit the play/pause on my headphones then hit play on my phone it will work again.

What a bizarre useless behaviour. Why not just turn bluetooth OFF when my laptop is asleep. (It will also remain connected to wifi hotspot prevent my phone from auto-disabling wifi hotspot which has caught me a few times)

[DrammBA]

Hello, I also hate that bluetooth stays on while my mac is sleeping, a few years ago I found this utility to fix it: https://github.com/odlp/bluesnooze/, my only issue with it is that if I sleep and wake the laptop in quick succession sometimes bluetooth stays off, but I can live with that.

[ohhai]

Fix this with bluesnooze: https://github.com/odlp/bluesnooze

[CharlieDigital]

As a MBP user (for dev because the hardware is so good), it annoys me to no end that macOS comes up short in so many basic ways that requires patching with so many third party tools to make it not annoying. Even basic window tiling is just terrible and requires a third party add-on to make it functional.

[throw03172019]

That is a frustrating experience for audio. However, I do enjoy tapping my external BT keyboard / trackpad to wake my MacBook while it’s in clamshell mode connected to my monitor.

[semi-extrinsic]

If only there was a way for the OS to distinguish input devices from output devices...

[aclimatt]

This behavior is extremely frustrating. I have a pair that only supports one device, and on the occasion that I connect them to my MacBook and forget to unpair or turn off Bluetooth afterward, they will permanently be usurped by Apple Music -- computer awake or asleep -- and my phone never stands a chance.

[freedomben]

I actually think Apple is the reason why newer headphones are starting to support two devices. Apple makes a decision for themselves and it forces entire industries to move that direction. As someone who hates the Apple approach (please give me the Woz machine: more ports, more open, more hackable, more mine), it is painful to watch. Yes I'm still bitter about headphone jacks :-D

[xenophonf]

I've gotten in the habit of explicitly disconnecting my headphones from all but the device I'm actually using, typically my phone. I haven't had these kinds of problems since, but what I gain in control, I lose in flexibility. Typical Apple.

[avree]

Thieves in San Francisco take advantage of the first one to check if there are goods in cars.

[iknowstuff]

Whoa how do we know about this?

[Gigachad]

Honestly I doubt they bother with that when they can just randomly smash open 10 cars to check them in the time it would take to do a Bluetooth scan.

[mdavid626]

Exactly. Thank you. Apple please fix this. I buy 300$ headphones and >2000$ laptop and can’t listen to music.

[sbuk]

Out of interest, what is the model of headphones? Asking as I’ve not seen this with Beats, Apple or Sony.

[xrisk]

Huh I’m glad I have AirPods, they work perfectly in this scenario. One of those Apple ecosystem things I guess.