Streaming bluetooth audio on an iPhone?

[bitchstewie]

I'm contemplating an iPhone and currently use Android.

When I'm in the car I use the TuneIn Radio to stream music to the car audio over bluetooth.

On Android this works fine, and of course Android does proper multi-tasking so I can go into email, texts, whatever other app I need when the situation permits (no I don't do this whilst driving before anyone suggests it).

My question is about the limited multi-tasking/background app support that I think iOS has.

How does it work if you're streaming audio and you go into a different app?

[Digitalize]

Works exactly as you'd expect, unless for some reason the app designers don't allow it.

There's very little an Android device can do an iPhone can't, Including multitasking.

[sjg]

How bad do you think it is?

Yes, that all works fine. Supports the track info display and controls via Bluetooth, and can be paired to many Bluetooth devices at the same time too.

[bitchstewie]

sjg said:

How bad do you think it is?

Yes, that all works fine. Supports the track info display and controls via Bluetooth, and can be paired to many Bluetooth devices at the same time too.

When I last used an iPad I used the iPlayer app and part way through a program I pressed the "home" button and went into Safari to google something I'd seen on the program.

The iPlayer program didn't continue to play in the background, it stopped completely and started from scratch when I went back into it, which I didn't expect.

So I know of course that it'll play and stream, what I wanted to know is what happens if I pull over and go into email or texts? Will the audio continue to stream?

[gregs656]

bhstewie said:

So I know of course that it'll play and stream, what I wanted to know is what happens if I pull over and go into email or texts? Will the audio continue to stream?

Yes

[Dodsy]

It will continue. I use a bluetooth speaker so kick off a playlist then get on with doing other things on my iphone. Not found anything that interferes with playback.

[bitchstewie]

Thanks, and being pedantic this is the same with a third-party app such as tunein, it's not just with iTunes?

[Digitalize]

Like I said, that was the creator of the iPlayer apps choice to stop content playing when you were no longer in the app.

I've never used TuneIn, but I'd be shocked if it didn't work like Spotify, or the Music app etc.

[mr_spock]

I use TuneIn on my iPhone. Works fine in the background.

[AC43]

I use Tunein, Spotify and Soundcloud on both Android and iOs and in both cases I can multi-task without interrupting the audio stream.