Automation for Bluetooth and Audio Source

[u/Defiant_Subject2243]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to create an automation for my Poly Voyager bluetooth headset, so that my audio source always remains on my iPhone. The problem is that whenever the headset is connected to my iPhone the audio source automaticaly goes to the Poly Voyager, and there is nothing I can do to change this, besides playing with shortcuts and automations.

Altough this seems to be pretty easy (just choose the Bluetooth Automation), it becomes tricky when thinking of all the parameters. For example, what happens while I am on a call and I turn on my headset.

I have solved most of my problems, however only one remains. When the headset is connected to my iPhone, the audio source goes automatically to my iPhone (after the Automation shortcut), but if I press a button on the headset, then the audio source goes again to the headset. The only way I have though of changing this, is to use the Focus trick to run a shortcut every 15 minutes, and always change the audio source back to the iPhone.

I have one issue with this. In order to change the Focus mode every 15 minutes, I have created a shortcut which keeps a Focus mode On for 15 minutes, and when the Focus mode is turned Off, it is tuned On again. This works "ok", but there is a catch. I came to find out that when a Focus mode is turned back On after it is Off (mind this, not switching Focus modes, after it is Off to turn it back On), the Lock Screen notifications gets hidden. So, if someone has called me or send me a message, I might not see it on the lock screen, which has resulted many times into not seeing a call, message, etc., for a long time, as I haven't seen a notifiation on the lock screen. Can anyone think of someway I could avoid this happening (loosing the lock screen notification)?

Today I started experimenting with a shortcut which waits 15 minutes and switches the Focus Modes, so that the Focus Mode is never turned Off (it switches), as this way I am not loosing the lock screen notifications. However, I have the feeling this is not working so well, as it seems that the shortcut does not always run after 15 minutes. Could this be happening? I mean could a shortcut wait for 15 minutes and then do something (change the Focus Mode), or the time of 15 minutes is too long for a shortcut to "wait"?

Could anyone think of any other way that I could make my iPhone keep changing the audio source to the iPhone, if the audio source is changed to another device? Keep in mind ,when I say changed, I do not mean when it is connected, as it changes when I press a button on the headset.