A new iPhone setting will stop CarPlay from stealing your AirPods’ audio

Turn this enactment connected to forestall different wireless devices from stealing audio from your headphones.

If you’ve ever recovered yourself successful a concern wherever the euphony you’re enjoying successful your AirPods abruptly starts playing done your car’s speakers erstwhile you commencement it, you’re seemingly not alone. Apple has introduced a elemental solution to the occupation successful iOS 26, arsenic spotted by MacRumors, that should besides enactment with immoderate different brace of wireless headphones connected to your iPhone.

Open your iPhone’s Settings app and navigate to the General > AirPlay & Continuity section. In determination you’ll find a ‘Keep Audio with Headphones’ enactment you tin crook connected that keeps the audio playing done your wireless headphones adjacent aft your iPhone connects to devices similar Bluetooth speakers oregon CarPlay-compatible stereos.

Having the enactment turned connected doesn’t permanently forestall you from listening to euphony oregon podcasts done your car’s stereo. You tin power to listening done your vehicle’s stereo astatine immoderate clip utilizing iOS’ Control Center oregon wrong the CarPlay interface, and you’ll inactive person entree to different CarPlay features portion the audio from your telephone is routed to your headphones.