Bless you for solving this, it has been causing me fits for MONTHS and this resolved the issue.
How to PERMANENTLY disable Handsfree Telephony for a bluetooth device in Windows 11?
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I need to disable Handsfree Telephony to make my Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones work in MS Teams (as resolved in this thread).
But, the setting keeps being enabled again - possibly during reboot or bluetooth re-connection.
Is there a way to PERMANENTLY disable the setting for this device?
Aside: I'm open to a fix in powershell if anyone knows the API calls for toggling the setting based on BT connection trigger.
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2024-01-27T18:07:58+00:00 -
Anonymous
2024-02-29T14:19:42+00:00 Idk if you still need this, but do right click on "Device and Printers" and select "Open", this will open the devices and not the settings.
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Anonymous
2024-03-12T10:33:03+00:00 Thank you, kind sir.
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Anonymous
2024-04-08T08:38:06+00:00 How do you open the hardware tab?
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Anonymous
2024-04-08T18:05:07+00:00 Not sure if this will help, but for me I was able to permanently disable the handsfree part of my bluetooth headphones by disabling the system device entry for it in the Device Manager->System Devices area on my Windows 11 machine. (Note that the system device is different from the driver and represented by a different icon (for me a computer tower and blue pane monitor):
Simply right-click and disable:
I have noticed that this method requires me to have to hit the connect button in Bluetooth & devices -> Devices more often / almost every time I turn my headphones back on, but it has helped me not have to disable the handsfree device every time which I found just a bit more cumbersome. Teams also now picks up the proper device so I don't lose audio.