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> At least with iOS there's usually two modes: it either connects or it doesn't.

Those two modes aren't quite good enough, though. One recent fun episode occurred when I walked up to our house and started doing some work outside, while both I and someone inside were listening to music. For some reason, my phone automatically disconnected from my headphones, and connected to the bluetooth speaker inside, somehow disconnecting whatever it was originally connected to. So, for the person inside, the bluetooth speaker stopped playing their music and started playing something random, which proceeded to start and stop a few times, and then get louder and louder and LOUDER while I was standing outside, fiddling with my phone and headphones, trying to figure out why my music stopped playing.

My guess is that the root cause is that there's a crippling design flaw at the root of the Bluetooth spec: Its original designers apparently never considered the possibility that multiple people might share their electronics.