Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device

Pixel 3a / Google Home Mini

Operating System

Android 10

My Question or Issue

At night, I use Spotify to "Cast" to a Google Home Mini in my daughter's room which works as expected. The problem that I have is that when I go to bed, a few hours later, and connect my Bluetooth headphones to my phone, Spotify automatically switches to playing out of my headphones, even without the app running in the foreground. What is worse, is that the speaker then starts talking about how it cannot continue because the account is in use elsewhere which, given my daughter is asleep, is not good!

I am not intending to listen to Spotify on my headphones, I just want to listed to some podcasts using another app which makes this incredibly frustrating.

I can see how this could be useful in some situations but in my use case it is most definitely not. 

Is this intended functionality?

Is there any way to stop this behaviour?