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.
Lots of ways to stop Android from auto connecting to BT devices. Search it up, or poke around the Developer Options on the phone.
On her phone or mine? I’m happy to tinker with mine, but I’m not going to ask her to turn on developer options.
EDIT: It might be worth asking her to turn off auto-connect in the dev options. That’s fine if it’s just a one-time toggle.