Airplane mode is a feature that has been around in phones for a very long time. The name comes from the idea that the radios in phones can interfere with airplanes, so this allows you to turn them off without powering down the phone completely. Airplane mode has other uses, of course, but it\u2019s not a terribly nuanced tool: one tap kills all radios. However, in Android 11 R, it may get a little smarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This blanket approach can be annoying if you want to quickly disable cellular and Wi-Fi, but you\u2019re listening to music over Bluetooth. If you\u2019re familiar with ADB, there\u2019s already a method for customizing which radios are turned off with airplane mode. Of course, that\u2019s not a consumer-facing feature and not something most people will bother with. A new commit in the AOSP Gerrit is titled \u201cContext-aware Bluetooth airplane mode\u201d and it sounds like a much-requested feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do not automatically turn off Bluetooth when airplane mode is turned on and Bluetooth is in one of the following situations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bluetooth A2DP is connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bluetooth Hearing Aid profile is connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Android will be smart enough to realize that if you\u2019re currently using Bluetooth you probably don\u2019t want to disable it when toggling airplane mode on. \u201cA2DP\u201d is the profile used for most Bluetooth earbuds and headsets for media streaming. The commit has not been merged yet, but we can expect to see it in Android 11 R, the next major version of the OS. This is a small thing but it can make a big difference if you use airplane mode and Bluetooth a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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