Headphones not working?

[⭕⃤ Griz]

It was working yesterday, I get home from working today and I connect my headphones, audio still goes through the steam deck speakers. When I switch to settings and use “external device” or “headphones” still won’t work.. and yes the headphones do work, they work on my pc. Thanks I. Advance everyone.

[Fibbitts]

You have to use desktop mode to switch to wired headphones initially, then after that if you don’t touch the audio settings again they will continue to work. However doing this will make it so that for the dock and any Bluetooth headphones, you need to manually switch to them in gaming mode, then set it back to default to “initialize” your audio devices again.

I suspect the cause of this is that both the speaker and headphones are using the same path or what not for onboard audio, as they both fall under the same audio compressor. I’m sure it was done this way for a reason, but man is it annoying they still haven’t fixed this yet. The Deck’s gaming mode can’t tell them apart because of it. I spent almost an entire day fiddling with this.

[⭕⃤ Griz]

That worked thanks, that’s an an irritating thing to do just for headphones to work.. hopefully they fix it soon