# Is there a way to connect to two Bluetooth devices to a single phone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 13, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991 "2020-08-13T12:28:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/1 "2020-08-13T12:28:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/2 "2020-08-13T14:20:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![yearofglad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b782af/32.png) [@yearofglad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yearofglad)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/3 "2020-08-13T14:50:24Z")
According to [this article](https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/bluetooth-le-audio-ces-2020/), 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. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/4 "2020-08-14T00:20:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/5 "2020-08-14T02:29:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/6 "2020-08-14T11:52:22Z")
Thanks for the replies. I figured this was the case. I guess I’ll just continue to bop around my work solo. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/7 "2020-08-14T12:03:50Z")
Another factor worthy of thought is that the security risks are increased if you can have multiple devices accessing a Bluetooth simultaneously. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/8 "2020-08-14T19:00:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/9 "2020-08-14T21:22:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mirik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@Mirik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirik)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-connect-to-two-bluetooth-devices-to-a-single-phone/917991/10 "2020-08-18T11:15:42Z")
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