At home, we usually have friends and family get-togethers quite frequently. During these, always seeking to liven up or create a good atmosphere, we took advantage of a Bluetooth speaker connected to a Galaxy to broadcast music. The speaker is powerful enough for a living room like mine, but there is still one thing I hate about this system, and this is something that happens when I change applications on my mobile.
When you switch to an app like TikTok, the Bluetooth speaker stop playing music to switch to audio in this app. This is very annoying, because it limits the use of the Galaxy connected to the speaker. The best thing is that the Samsung Galaxy has a function that directly prevents this from happening. I’ll tell you how it works.
With One UI we can “separate” the sound of different applications
Samsung uses One UI on its devices, a custom layer based on Android. Without discrediting what other manufacturers do, the truth is that the cape of the Korean firm stands out for its offer many options for the user when customizing almost anything. It hides many interesting tricks, like the one we showed you to use one of the best paid features of YouTube Premium for free.
The tip I referenced above is also part of One UI. In other words: we don’t need to install anything at allnot even use a Samsung app. Everything is done via a somewhat hidden tool, but very simple to configure. Here are the steps we need to follow to do this:
- We access the “Settings” of our Galaxy.
- We scroll down and click on “Sounds and vibrations”.
- In this menu, click on the last option of all, called ‘Independent application sound‘.
- The next step would be to enable the option.
This way we can play one app through the Bluetooth speaker (or headphones) and another through the Galaxy speakers. At this point we must configure the applications for which we want to take advantage of this function. To do this, simply click on ‘Application‘ and select one or all we want.
All that remains is to add the Bluetooth devices that we want to take advantage of this tool. It’s simple: Just pair and select them on the same screen.
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