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by VLM 3362 days ago
I've owned two devices where bluetooth audio and wifi interfered with each other. This is not even remotely unusual.

Every time I drive past that retail store with the saved wifi it tries really, really hard to connect to the store causing pause/stuttering on the bluetooth audio for about 3 seconds about 90% of the time.

People are good at pattern matching, after a couple hundred events on a couple hundred commutes you pick up on the exact telephone pole I drive by where I expect my audio playback to stutter.

For something like a podcast or audio book its just a word or two hardly noticeable, but for music its very annoying and I'll shut off the wifi to avoid the interference.

If you try hard you can find just the wrong spot in the gym or office or restaurant where the phone goes nuts trying to connect to a very weak wifi over and over and failing and causing chaos in which case you have to shut off the wifi to get any work done over the more reliable data plan.