My partner keeps the Bluetooth antenna of her Android Pixel 4a (5G) on because she wears a Fitbit. On the occasion I want to use Bluetooth (e.g. in my car or via portable speaker), devices will ALWAYS connect to her phone over mine if she’s anywhere nearby. Sometimes it even steals the connection when I was already connected.
Why is this? Is there some way to steal the connection back?
It happened when I had a Pixel 4a (non-5G) and with a Pixel 8a. It’s especially maddening when it’s the audio stream in my car. I believe I’ve tried unpairing both phones, pairing mine first and then hers, and hers still ends up taking priority.
EDIT: Tech Support answers only, please. If I wanted to get trolled there are plenty of other places for that.
U can just go to it Bluetooth and connect to the device if ur already paired it should kick ur partner off and connect you. Newer Bluetooth protocol allows multiple devices to connect simultaneously ie my headphones can connect to my phone and laptop at the same time and take priority from each other on certain events. A play/pause/phone event will give whatever device made that event priority. Eg I’ll be gaming on my laptop and that’s through my headphone but if me phone is called my phone will take priority.
It depends what Bluetooth protocol version ur using(it will be the highest version that both devices support). Then I suggest reading the doc on that version/asking an LLM about that specific version.