Is there a way to connect to two Bluetooth devices to a single phone?

Factual Questions
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Hello Everyone,

I have a Samsung A21 and I use Bluetooth to connect to wireless earbuds. If I have a friend that would like to listen to whatever I’m playing on my phone through their earbuds is there a way to stream to two different Bluetooth devices from a single phone? At present I can only choose one device to connect to.

2

You can connect multiple bluetooth devices to a Samsung device, but you can only listen through one device at a time. So no, your desired situation cannot occur.

3

According to this article, the new Bluetooth standards will allow you to share music from one device to multiple headphones, but no, as Omar_Little said, it’s not possible with the current standards.

4

Some of the Samsung phones have “dual audio” – where you select output device, you just select two output devices. The hardware has to have hardware support for two bluetooth connections.

“Broadcast audio” was new 6 months ago, there are a lot of headphones and devices now, because it was just a software upgrade.

5

If you have the integrated bluetooth connected to an audio device, does the headphone jack still work? My guess is that the answer is no… but if it does still work, a workaround would be to connect an auxiliary bluetooth transmitter to the headphone jack.

6

Thanks for the replies. I figured this was the case. I guess I’ll just continue to bop around my work solo.

7

Another factor worthy of thought is that the security risks are increased if you can have multiple devices accessing a Bluetooth simultaneously.

8

While looking for something else, I came across Bluetooth range extenders. A lot of them offer connections to at least two devices at a time. One is BRO4 from Nulaxy on Amazon.

9

Gotta be careful with terminology …

2 “devices” is not the same as 2 “audio headsets” or 2 “audio headset/mike combos”.

There are lots of bluetooth “devices” that are not earbuds.

My phone can support a bluetooth headset/mike, an OBD connector to my car, a keyboard, a mouse, and a credit card reader simultaneously. And probably even more different gizmos if I owned them.

But it won’t connect 2 headsets simultaneously.

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My answer would be no, but maybe someone had already thought abou that, so I’d say try to find some app, if you wont find one, there is no such thing…But it might work through a laptop