A lot of pain points in Bluetooth can be easily addressed by simple UX research: Phones and computers try to decide when to connect to a Bluetooth device. Just

A lot of pain points in Bluetooth can be easily addressed by simple UX research: Phones and computers try to decide when to connect to a Bluetooth device. Just giving users an option like: "Connect to this device automatically" and unchecking it by default goes a long way. I had a Bluetooth speaker. An unknown neighbour was connected to it and there was no way for me to use this speaker, remotely, until I moved to another place. At night, I play sleep music on my Sonos wireless speaker. If I restart my Linux laptop, it connects to the speaker's Bluetooth interface, playing an annoying sound for my sleeping wife. I should remember to disconnect from it, or my music will be played to her. If you have a Bluetooth speaker, every time you turn it on, you have to find the phone/laptop that has connected to it, disconnect, and then connect the one that you want to use at the moment. Makes me wonder: do designers of these products use their products in any capacity?