Does anyone know why CAPTCHA or human identification checks on your MacBook while browsing would pause the music playing on your phone.
I am asking this here because a quick search hasn't really returned anything concrete to stop it from happening. I may look like a bot sometimes, but I am a human I swear!
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iPhone 16 Pro
I have confirmed this is a hand off issue. Looks like any request for audio playback or audio routing (even muted audio or CAPTCHA audio verification that isn't auto-launched) causes the Mac to trigger a "control request" to my AirPod Max 2s that are connected to both my iPhone and my MacBook.
Turning off hand off appears to be the only solution, but I wish this were handled better across the entire ecosystem.
Turn off audio handoff/routing between devices
Force the Mac to use only local speakers
I have confirmed this is a hand off issue. Looks like any request for audio playback or audio routing (even muted audio or CAPTCHA audio verification that isn't auto-launched) causes the Mac to trigger a "control request" to my AirPod Max 2s that are connected to both my iPhone and my MacBook.
Turning off hand off appears to be the only solution, but I wish this were handled better across the entire ecosystem.
Turn off audio handoff/routing between devices
Force the Mac to use only local speakers
It appears to be related to the audio hand off between devices not the actual verification itself. Still not sure why a verification requires a device control audio at all though. Still investigating.
Music pauses to "verify" me in browser and does not resume
