iOS 26: Keep AirPods Connected When You Get in Your Car

[Wando64]

There are a few angry reactions around, but drivers need to ask themselves how many times they've been pissed off because a pedestrian was away with the fairies listening to their headphones and they nearly hit them as a result. Now imagine you're driving with noise-cancelling on and fail to hear an approaching siren or a pedestrian shouting an alert.

How exactly do you conflate a functionality to stop automatic audio switching with someone driving with noise cancelling?
There was nothing to stop you doing that even before this functionality was added, just like there is nothing to stop you from watching a movie on your phone while you drive, or nothing to stop you from keeping you car audio volume so loud that your ears bleed.
I am just going to give up on this thread because it’s all getting rather silly now.

 

[CrashTestWalrus]

You guys all realize that deaf people exist, and they can drive cars. I don’t think that necessarily means it’s a great plan for everyone to have audio up so loud they can’t hear anything but that audio, AirPods or not, but it does show that hearing isn’t necessarily something that you have to do in order to drive your car.

 

[Astuces iOS]

First of all it is LEGAL in most places (not some).

But also, considering it is ILLEGAL to use a mobile phone while driving in just about ALL places, following your logic should Apple deactivate the phone screen while in a car for "security reasons" and allow only CarPlay functionality?


I don't even understand why there is even a discussion about this at all.
If somebody is keeping the earbuds on while entering the car, presumably they are doing so for a reason and therefore moving the connection to the car audio is undesirable.
Connection should happen automatically only the moment the earbuds are removed from the ear.

All of that said, every driver has a duty to drive responsibly and within the laws and regulations of their country.
It is not complicated.

Around the world there is many places where it's not legal, only 1 AirPod legal or not recommended... If in many places in usa it's legal well I guess make the feature only available in usa bruh

 

[Astuces iOS]

You guys all realize that deaf people exist, and they can drive cars. I don’t think that necessarily means it’s a great plan for everyone to have audio up so loud they can’t hear anything but that audio, AirPods or not, but it does show that hearing isn’t necessarily something that you have to do in order to drive your car.

Do you realize that deaf people have hearing aids devices and they might need a special license to drive... do you have that no!

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

You should NOT be driving with Airpods in the car. It’s better to use your car speakers, even if you lose continuity.

What’s the difference between blasting your speakers or having AirPods in with transparency mode on? I can still hear stuff.

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

I think this feature is good in theory but I don’t use it for 2 reasons.

1. When I start the car, the audio does stay in my AirPods but then if I try to pause the music, it automatically plays again. It does this 3 or 4 times before it understands and actually pauses. Not sure why.

2. When I turn my car off, the audio still pauses on disconnect. Annoying. I want it to be seamless. I want to get in and out of my car with no interruptions.

Also, I use transparency mode, and never use noise canceling when in the car and I don’t blast my music so don’t tell me I’m being dangerous. It’s no different than listening to car speakers.

 

[Ctrlos]

How exactly do you conflate a functionality to stop automatic audio switching with someone driving with noise cancelling?
There was nothing to stop you doing that even before this functionality was added, just like there is nothing to stop you from watching a movie on your phone while you drive, or nothing to stop you from keeping you car audio volume so loud that your ears bleed.
I am just going to give up on this thread because it’s all getting rather silly now.

It boils down to this: don’t drive with AirPods in your ears as it is unsafe!

 

[dogrivergrad68]

There are a few angry reactions around, but drivers need to ask themselves how many times they've been pissed off because a pedestrian was away with the fairies listening to their headphones and they nearly hit them as a result. Now imagine you're driving with noise-cancelling on and fail to hear an approaching siren or a pedestrian shouting an alert.

Many people drive with headphones for the purpose of protecting their hearing, so it also isn’t as cut and dried as a lot of the people on this thread seem to think it is.

 

[jjudson]

I'm curious if this works with screen mirroring or Airplay. It would be nice to cast streaming video to a hotel TV and listen to the audio through the AirPods.

 

[EightBitLover]

How about "Keep audio with iPhone" as a setting as well?

If my phone is being used to drive CarPlay, using other apps on it (like Facebook) will take over my car audio.

And no, it's not the driver using the phone.

 

[Ctrlos]

Many people drive with headphones for the purpose of protecting their hearing, so it also isn’t as cut and dried as a lot of the people on this thread seem to think it is.

They make products specifically for that though. Sennhaiser make a great set of earplugs for about $20. It’s one thing to dampen or block out the noise of the city and another to replace it with a distracting podcast that does so.

People who are deaf can legally drive a car with no issues and I’d never deny them the chance because their other senses fill in.

 

[dogrivergrad68]

They make products specifically for that though. Sennhaiser make a great set of earplugs for about $20. It’s one thing to dampen or block out the noise of the city and another to replace it with a distracting podcast that does so.

Anyone dumb enough to turn their headphones up loud enough so they can only hear a podcast are likely to do the same with their car audio system, so what’s the difference? Modern vehicles have hundreds of pounds of sound deadening material and have factory sound systems that can be painfully loud. Much louder than any earbuds I’ve ever owned. That should be illegal too using your logic.

The headphones that seal off the ears and have adaptive noise suppression are probably the better solution if one doesn’t want the standard plugs and a bone conduction headset with their crap runtimes.

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

Anyone dumb enough to turn their headphones up loud enough so they can only hear a podcast are likely to do the same with their car audio system, so what’s the difference? Modern vehicles have hundreds of pounds of sound deadening material and have factory sound systems that can be painfully loud. Much louder than any earbuds I’ve ever owned. That should be illegal too using your logic.

The headphones that seal off the ears and have adaptive noise suppression are probably the better solution if one doesn’t want the standard plugs and a bone conduction headset with their crap runtimes.

So true

 

[Wando64]

Around the world there is many places where it's not legal, only 1 AirPod legal or not recommended... If in many places in usa it's legal well I guess make the feature only available in usa bruh

I said it is legal in MOST countries. This is a fact.