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Carrier 1.10.1 reduces how much an idle Messenger tab interferes with Bluetooth audio on macOS.

Bug Fixes

• Fewer Bluetooth audio dropouts while Carrier is open (partial fix). Messenger keeps a Web Audio context running even when nothing is playing, and macOS treats that as an active audio session: it competes with whatever you are actually listening to for the Bluetooth route (each swap restarts the stream, which you hear as a dropout), and its always-on silent render can stall the shared output device under load, muting AirPods system-wide. Carrier now suspends that context whenever Messenger has nothing to play and resumes it the moment a sound, call, or media stream needs it. Notification sounds are unaffected: they are played by macOS, not by the page.

This is a mitigation, not a full fix. On macOS 27 WebKit restarts the audio render about a second after the page suspends it, below anything the page can see or control, so the context still spends part of its time active. If you notice a dropout, quitting Carrier for the duration of a call or listening session remains the reliable workaround. Progress and the underlying WebKit finding are tracked in [#234].