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0 pointsnpunt3y ago0 comments

100%, somehow iOS/MacOS do exactly the wrong thing when it comes to handling audio streams. Two more:

1. when you turn on your car and it connects to iPhone via BT, it just starts playing what was last played in Apple Music, even if you were most recently listening to an Audible book and had paused it before.

2. Another is when you're playing music and then open a YouTube video. The pause button on the keyboard should pause the music (in the background) not the video (in the foreground), yet Apple insists on a simple foreground=control rule.

Apple OSes just have no mental model for what we want to be playing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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CharlesW3y ago· 1 in thread

> when you turn on your car and it connects to iPhone via BT, it just starts playing what was last played in Apple Music, even if you were most recently listening to an Audible book and had paused it before.

This must be vehicle- or Audible-specific, because my complaint is exactly the opposite: My phone continues playing the last thing played, which is often not what I want.

For example: When connecting to my car in the morning, the iPhone continues playing my sleep noise instead of one of my preferred choices for that Bluetooth context — music or podcasts. It sort of astounds me that annoyances like this can persist for years.

EDIT: Whoa! I did some digging based on this conversation and, at some point, Apple added the ability to trigger an Automation in response to connecting to a specific Bluetooth device. Maybe this will help you too, @npunt?

npuntOP3y ago

Ooh thanks I'll take a look!

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