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This toggle is annoying because what was once 1 press to turn on BT is now 2. It gets me every day.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You're not wrong, but you just reminded me to setup some Tasker events to manage my BT enabled state.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

my phone does single tap to toggle and tap on the down arrow or longpress for settings page

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Going through the comments, I think it's clear to conclude this should be a choice to configure this tile. Some people prefer single tap to turn off, some don't

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I prefer this. I've been annoyed by having to go to the settings every time I wanted to swap device I want to connect to. I rarely turn off BT anyways.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Before it was a single tap to turn Bluetooth on/off, and a tap+hold to open the Bluetooth settings (or any quick setting tile in your notification tray). Maybe you just didn't know about that feature but the old way was 100% better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I knew about it but still prefer this new way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't like it, but I like it more than the old way of holding the button down to get to the menu. I do hate that the "see all" menu doesn't just expand the current menu, it takes you to the old menu. There's definitely hints of windows95 creeping into Android.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can we talk about how space inefficient the UI is? It takes up the entire screen to essentially show 6 buttons. And I bet like the Internet toggle that it moves the buttons around when it detects new networks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's actually 9 buttons + DONE button. Each device has the option to connect to it by clicking its name, or enter Settings by tapping on its gear icon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I stand corrected. My brain must've been switched off at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That was my first thought. Which skin of Android is this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is not a skin, it's a pure android probably on pixel device

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah right! I'm a fair few versions behind now so didn't recognise it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think Android 12 is where this was introduced, and 13 where they made the buttons even bigger

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So, maybe a weird question, but what are you doing with your phone exactly that you need to turn on Bluetooth on a daily basis?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This was pointed out already that I could just unpair my personal phone to my speaker, but I have 2 phones. I have a speaker at work both are paired to. So every day I turn bluetooth off so when I turn my speaker on I'm not announcing connection to my personal phone because it violates cell phone policy. Because it announces connection to both, I turn bluetooth off before I go inside. Since I have a work phone, I'm good to use that one, just not my personal phone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I sometimes use Bluetooth headphones but turn off Bluetooth to save battery.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I will never understand wireless headphones as a concept. They seem objectively worse in every way.

Lower sound quality, more battery intensive, have to be charged, less comfortable, easier to drop and way easier to lose. Also, makes you look like you're talking to yourself all the time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I thought some of these things initially, but then I noticed I wasn't constantly accidentally getting the cord hooked on things and yanking them out of my ears all the time. That bit has been super nice. Plus I have a pair that sounds absolutely fantastic...no issues with sound quality. Maybe I'm just a klutz, but freeing yourself of wires is super nice.

Note that if you only use headphones in a stationary position, a wire isn't very obtrusive. But if I'm doing something like laundry, the dishes, cleaning up, getting some exercise, or even just being seated at my computer (where I would always forget I had wired headphones on and I would yank them off when I stood up), going wireless has been great.

HOWEVER, one of the biggest downsides to wireless headphones has been gaming. The latency makes them unusable for that purpose imo. We just aren't there yet in terms of that tech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I went - kind of - wireless so I’ll never break another connector in my phone and I can change clothes (for work) all day long. My buds are physically connected to each other but not to my phone. Perfect set-up of compromises when I travel and work. (Sony WI-C310)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Sound quality is sufficiently indistinguishable in quality for me, battery lasts way longer than I need, more comfortable because I don't have a cable being snagged on things, never dropped or lost them, and if you can't see my over-ear headphones then no wire is going to help you.

Additionally I can connect to multiple devices (computer and mobile) and I can get up and walk around as I need and not lose audio.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I think however this is just based on how the average user interacts with this toggle. Very few users actively turn off their BT, ever, as they have frequent situations where they want their BT to just work immediately.

OTOH, this means that in some cases, they need to swap which device to connect to, hence opening the menu on the first tap.

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