Casey LissHow is it the year 2024 and I cannot hand off current playback between my Mac and my iPhone?
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Chancerubbage@caseyliss you HAVE used handoff successfully to your pleasure before, no?
For what ‘handoffs’ did handoff seem to work?
@Chancerubbage Safari, Messages, Mail
@caseyliss I think it is just a more difficult problem with large actively streaming data. Packet timing. Opening one door closing another.
Asynchronous services like a web url or email have natural pauses to switch the lever on the trolly rail.
@Chancerubbage tell that to my Sonos which can add/remove speakers on the fly with zero latency between them
@caseyliss I’m not sure what permission you would need to get handoff to hand off, but I can imagine scenarios when I don’t want the podcast on my phone to go to my MacBook. Or keep the music in the other room even.
Do you ‘give permission’ for a hand off? I often want my car Bluetooth to continue the podcast I’ve been listening to, but frequently Apple Music breaks line instead.
@Chancerubbage In actual Handoff™ scenarios, yes, it is a response to user action.
@caseyliss one solution would be to stream to the available devices anyway, but only adjust ‘Speaker Volume’ on proximity. Which may be a trick Sonos uses.
Personally I’m not certain I would want to automatically hand off audio streaming to a cpu which might be chugging along on something else at the time.
Sören@Chancerubbage @caseyliss not stream the music. Copy the playlist, and the progress in the current song. Just a bunch of text, really.