New iOS 26 setting prevents audio automatically jumping from AirPods to car speakers

Sometimes CarPlay is trigger happy and starts blasting out your audio before you've taken off your AirPods, or even got into your car. One new setting in iOS 26 should fix that forever.


There are two things that Apple has created tremendous technology for, but which don't work. One is how when you say "Siri," all your devices compare notes to figure out which one you didn't want, and then make that respond to you.

The other is that there is a brilliant feature across iOS, macOS, and iPadOS, that means your AirPods can automatically switch to whichever device you want to listen to. But while it works and usually works well, there is a problem — or there has been until iOS 26.


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