Apple is Stealthily Giving Your Iphone a Neat New Feature

This new ability addresses to Common issue when listening to music on airpods or other wireless headphones.

When Apple Rolls Out ios 26 to Your Iphone This Coming Fall, It’s Going to Ring in the Changes. Some Standouts Includes the New “Liquid Glass” Design, More Simplified Camera App, and Both the Message and Phone Apps Will Get Several New Abilities That You’ll Actually Use.

However, AS the Case Whenever Apple Announces A Next-Gegection Operating System, Some of the Most Useful New Features Often Go Unannteded at WWDC and Are Only Revealed by Developers and Early Adopters when the Betas Are Release. And that’s True here.

With ios 26, Apple is introducing the new setting on your iPhone that addresses a common annoyance when streaming music to your airpods or other wireless headphones orbuds.

Keep Audio in Headphones

You’ve at Doubt Experienced this.

When listening to music on your airpods (or any wireless headphones), The Audio Automatically Switches Away and Starts Playing on Another one of Your Bluetooth Devices – Be it a Bluetooth Speaker or Your Car’s Speaker System – When it Ges Turned Turned On.

It’s annooying Because you have have to go through your iphone’s Bluetooth Settings and Manually Switch it.

However, the First Reported by MacrumoriOS 26 will introduce the new setting called “Kep Audio in Headphones” that aims to address this exact issue. The Setting Was Found in the First Developer Beta of IOS 26.

Here’s How Apple Descriptions it: “When Using Airpods or other Connected Headphones, Keep Audio in You Headphones When Other Playback Devices Like Cars and Speakers Connect to iPhone.”

When “Kep Audio in Headphones” is toggled on, if you’re listening to music on your airpods and then toggle on a secondary Bluetooth Device, the audio won´t automaticly switch and will continue playing on your airpods.

This “Kep Audio in Headphones” Setting Will Likely Be Togroged Off by Default. To Change That:

1. Open Your Iphone’s Settings App.

3. Select Airplay & Continuity.

4. Toggle on Keep Audio in Headphones.

WHEN IT’S COMING?

Apple Will Officially Release iOS 26 this Fall, Most Likely in Early SEPTEMBER, When It Annouces The Next-Gen Iphones.

The developer beta of ios 26 is out now, while the public beta is expected to roll other in early to mid-july.

To Learn More About All of Ios 26’s Upcoming Features, Check Out Apple’s Blog Post.

Tucker Bowe has Been on Gear Patrol’s Editorial Team Since 2014. A Tech Staff Writer, He Tracks Everything in the Consumer Tech Space, From Headphones to Smartphones, Wearables to Home Theater Systems. IF IT LIGHTS UP OR MAKES NOISE, HE PROBABLY COVERS IT.