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Bose QC35 headphones
Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Headphones keep auto-connecting to the wrong device, requiring manual togglingUnreviewed
20192026- Headphones keep reconnecting to a sleeping laptop, forcing a multi-step manual disconnect2022-09-07
- Headphones never pair correctly with iPhone; pairing forced through a separate app2020-12-08
- Audio keeps switching to the wrong connected device, dropping sound unexpectedly2020-07-27
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 15 complaints
- ANC turns on at power-on and the app can't disable that, so user must press twice each time2025-05-16
- Repairing Bluetooth to the Linux laptop is a pain, so user switches to cable2022-09-08
- Headphones keep reconnecting to a sleeping laptop, forcing a multi-step manual disconnect2022-09-07
- Must spend hours resetting services and settings to re-pair after updates2021-11-08
- Button stops working and headphones hiss after switching to call mode unexpectedly2021-05-04
- Endless niggles switching between multiple paired devices, forcing user to limit to phone2020-12-08
- Headphones never pair correctly with iPhone; pairing forced through a separate app2020-12-08
- Button unexpectedly cycles noise cancellation levels unless configured for an assistant2020-07-27
- Audio keeps switching to the wrong connected device, dropping sound unexpectedly2020-07-27
- Call audio is awful in Self Voice mode, which can't be turned off2020-04-05
- Two voice profiles, one disables noise cancellation, confusing when gaming and chatting2020-04-05
- Noise cancellation silently degrades with no cue, and disabling the SelfVoice endpoint is a repeated hassle2020-04-05
- Headphones keep auto-connecting to the wrong device, forcing repeated manual toggling to switch2020-04-05
- Button can't disable noise cancelling without the app, so it's useless without it2020-04-05
- Headphones don't work out of the box until connected to the app2019-11-05