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ericg301

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This weekend, I used my airpods with my iPhone 7 on a long road trip. Mainly listened to podcasts via Overcast. iPhone 7 was plugged into a 4-port USB car charger.

Whenever I paused via double tap, and then resumed play, the audio would come out of the phone's speaker -- not the airpods. To get it back to the airpods, I figured out i just had to pull down notification center. No force press on the audio output controls. Literally a pulldown on the notification center will send the audio from the phone speaker back to the airpods.

has anyone experienced this before? what's causing it? i thought maybe the phone was getting confused between the airpod bluetooth and the car's bluetooth, so during one of our stops, i made the phone "forget" the car. but it still continued.
 
This weekend, I used my airpods with my iPhone 7 on a long road trip. Mainly listened to podcasts via Overcast. iPhone 7 was plugged into a 4-port USB car charger.

Whenever I paused via double tap, and then resumed play, the audio would come out of the phone's speaker -- not the airpods. To get it back to the airpods, I figured out i just had to pull down notification center. No force press on the audio output controls. Literally a pulldown on the notification center will send the audio from the phone speaker back to the airpods.

has anyone experienced this before? what's causing it? i thought maybe the phone was getting confused between the airpod bluetooth and the car's bluetooth, so during one of our stops, i made the phone "forget" the car. but it still continued.

Sounds like some general confusion between the Bluetooth signal between your AirPods and your vehicle Bluetooth. The Only thing I can think of, is if your vehicle allows you to under settings, disconnect the Bluetooth option manually and see if that makes a difference. Otherwise, Bluetooth in vehicles is generally automatic or default when it senses a phone, it automatically connects.
 
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