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Bluetooth multipoint is not an official specification but a proprietary implementation that varies by manufacturer, leading to inconsistent switching behavior between devices. The industry is currently navigating this unreliability while awaiting potential improvements from the migration from Bluetooth Classic to LE Audio. For tech professionals, this highlights the gap between marketing claims and standardized protocol capabilities in consumer audio hardware.

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Frustrated with your Bluetooth? How multipoint works - and why it sometimes won't

ZDNetJune 3, 20267 min read

Why is dual-device wireless connectivity for your headphones and earbuds so unreliable? It's the gaping chasm between actual product specs and marketing speak.

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Bluetooth dual device connectivity, aka "multipoint," isn't an official feature or spec. It's an application of Bluetooth technologies, and each manufacturer wields it differently. Further migration from Bluetooth Classic to LE Audio promises improvements. Bluetooth multipoint is a key selling point used by headphone and earbud manufacturers to entice consumers. This feature allows one pair of headphones to maintain individual connections with two (sometimes three) devices and switch audio between them without manually unpairing and re-pairing devices. Also: What is Bluetooth 6.0? How the latest standard fixes audio problems we'd learned to live with However, this feature can be unreliable, disconnecting from the device you want to stay connected to…

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