Sometimes, it's the little tech annoyances that sting the most

I got a new phone in January, a Pixel 8a, after my previous phone's touch screen died. I never had issues with my old phone playing music.

When I played music over Bluetooth, the new phone would bug out after a few songs and make odd muffled sounds. I would have to reconnect the speaker and restart the app and it would play another song or two before bugging out. I tried a bunch of suggestions online, nothing helped.

Then there was an Android update and the problem went away. Joy!

Now there's another Android update last week. Suddenly my music app doesn't change the actual music that's playing when I click play on a song. The UI says it's playing the new song, but it keeps playing the previous song.

It's such a mess. I don't know how there could be churn in the simple, standardized system for playing music. I certainly don't notice any new features or improvements.

It's macOS re-enabling Apple Intelligence [1] and bluetooth [2] everytime I update the OS that annoy me.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/21/ios-18-updates-...

[2] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255520964?sortBy=rank