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.
I have no personal reservations about dev options. I ran Cyanogen/Lineage rooted for years and now Graphene, so yeah I’m familiar with things like disabling bootlock. I’ve just never had much reason to mess with Bluetooth before this.
I just prefer to avoid having my partner go into her dev options each time. That’s probably just as inconvenient as re-pairing.