Windows 11 tests Bluetooth audio sharing that connects two headsets at once

Microsoft is bringing shared audio to Windows 11, allowing you to watercourse audio crossed 2 pairs of wireless headphones, speakers, earbuds, oregon proceeding aids. The diagnostic is built utilizing the Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) audio codec, and it’s rolling retired successful preview to Windows 11 Insiders successful the Dev and Beta channels.

Shared audio comes successful useful if you’re watching a movie connected a laptop with your person oregon household member, oregon conscionable privation to amusement them caller euphony that you tin some watercourse wrong your ain wireless headsets. You tin usage shared audio by connecting Bluetooth LE-supported devices to your Windows 11 PC and past selecting the “Shared audio (preview) fastener successful your speedy settings menu.

Microsoft introduced an LE Audio feature connected Windows 11 successful August, enabling higher audio prime portion utilizing a wireless headset successful a crippled oregon call. Other instrumentality makers person added enactment for shared audio arsenic well, with Google utilizing the Bluetooth LE-based Auracast diagnostic to broadcast audio from Android 16 devices to compatible proceeding aids. The institution aboriginal expanded this capability to let Pixel 8 phones oregon newer to link to 2 pairs of headphones astatine once. Samsung besides began gathering Auracast into its phones with past year’s motorboat of the Galaxy S24.

For now, shared audio successful Windows 11 is lone disposable connected prime Copilot Plus PCs, including the 13.8 and 15-inch Surface Laptops and the 13-inch Surface Pro. It’s coming to the Samsung Galaxy Book5 360, Galaxy Book5 Pro, 13-inch Surface Laptop, and others astatine a aboriginal date. You tin besides lone usage the diagnostic with devices compatible with Bluetooth LE, specified arsenic the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro, Buds 3, Buds 3 Pro, and the Sony WH-1000XM6 wireless headphones.