My iPhone keeps trying to connect to the audio for my Mac (to be it's audio source) and I want to turn that off -- what can I do? This only started happening since the new update.

I found the answer in another similar thread - you just do this:

Remove the Continuity Camera feature: on iPhone to go General > AirPlay & Handoff > deselect Continuity Camera

This alert is mind-boggling frustrating!

Anytime my phone is near my Macbook Air or iMac this alert pops up on my phone, sometimes in 10-second intervals, sometimes longer, but it pops up at least 200 times a day. I can no longer work with my phone anywhere near me.

When I try to click on disconnect the whole phone just blips and goes back to my home screen (even if I was in another app). And then 10 seconds later the alert is back up with a ding.

I can't find where this setting actually lives so my one chance is just hoping that one day that 'Disconnect' button will actually work. Maybe if I press it for the 1 thousand and 999th try.

I figured out how to disconnect. Go to System Settings->Sound->Output & Input. Select Input, and your iPhone should show up as an input source. Select your iPhone and the Connect screen will pop up on your phone and stay, allowing you to hit the Disconnect button. Once you do that the option for your phone will disappear from the sound input list and have to be reconnected by connecting your phone to your computer via cable.

If your devices are linked together with iCloud the option above may not work effectively. On your Mac go to System Preferences > General > AirDrop & Handoff > click on the toggle to disable "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices" and turn it off.

This has been the most effective for my personal MacBook Air as I was having this issue on both laptops for work and personal. My MacBook Air(work) isn't linked to my iCloud so the the first method worked best and on my MacBook Air(personal) the method above worked best. I haven't had any issues since doing this on either device.

Hi vic_toe,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. Are you seeing your Mac as an option on incoming calls? If so, you can turn that off with these steps:

1. On your iPhone, go to Settings  > Cellular.

2. If your iPhone has Dual SIM, choose a line (below SIMs).

3. Do any of the following:

Tap Calls on Other Devices, turn on Allow Calls on Other Devices, then choose the devices on which you’d like to make and receive calls.

This allows other devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID to make and receive calls when they’re nearby your iPhone and connected to Wi-Fi.

Tap Wi-Fi Calling, then turn on Add Wi-Fi Calling For Other Devices.

This allows other devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID to make and receive calls even when your iPhone isn’t nearby.

4. On your other devices, do the following:

On your iPad or iPod touch: Go to Settings > FaceTime, then turn on FaceTime and Calls from iPhone. If you’re asked, turn on Wi-Fi Calling.

On your Mac: Open FaceTime, choose FaceTime > Preferences > Settings, then select Calls from iPhone. If an Upgrade to Wi-Fi Calling button appears, click it, then follow the instructions.

See more about that here: Allow phone calls on your iPad, iPod touch, and Mac - Apple Support

If you're seeing this happening at other times, let us know more about how your device is trying to connect and what you see on screen. We'll go from there.

Thanks.

Finally figured this out. It is a part of the Community Camera settings that I turned on one time. You can manage it by turning off community camera in your settings.

Continuity Camera: Use iPhone as a webcam for Mac - Apple Support

Okay, I tried all the work arounds on this page thus far and my settings and audio screen is not the same as theirs so they wont work for me. I have a 14 and bought it in October 2022, IOS 16.3.1.

I facetimed a friend from my phone but he didn't answer. Then I facetimed him from my macbook pro and this time he answered. I tried to make the annoying notification come on by doing a live view of a ring camera from my macbook pro. The notification did not pop up. After I hung up from facetime, I tried it again and the notification did not pop up. I logged into this forum which asked for my icloud id and password and it gave me a notification that I was logging into icloud from a new device. I rebooted my phone to reset anything that might reset and tried it again. I closed out of ring, opened ring, and the notification started back with it's annoying Connect to MacBook Pro message.....SO ANNOYING!! But it is all tied to facetime somehow. This time when I clicked DISCONNECT, it actually disconnected. I quit ring and relaunched ring, opened a camera view and the annoying message did NOT appear. Let's hope it is fixed.

If I reboot my phone I will get notification again but when I click on Disconnect, it does. I would rather it stop asking me even once.

Omg! I think this has worked. I can’t tell you how flipping frustrating this has been since I bought my new computer. Every time I go on GarageBand, every time I switch the thing on, the phone won’t stop bleeping at me. I cannot thank you enough. I’m hoping I’ve done it the right way now.

Thank Goodness for that, because I’ve got a gig at the weekend and I don’t want the flipping phone going off whilst I’m working! Thank you so so so so much. !!!

I don't understand the point of this feature. It happens to me when I answer an iphone call from my macbook. But the person cannot hear me. I can't hear them and they can't hear me. The feature makes no sense to me.

omg same here. make it stop

Hi, if you go into system settings, then into sound, and then into input (from your mac), click on the phone which is connecting, and then hit "disconnect" from your phone, I think it removes it from the available input list. Not sure, I just tried it, so we'll see if it stays off. But you could try that!

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Thank you!!!! This literally has made me want to throw my phone.

Dear Apple:

Please don't add features customers don't ask for. I have no idea why anyone would want this as an automated feature.

I just switched off continuity camera. Hopefully that settles it Apple why would you create such an aggravating feature?