Good news... we introduced switch-on-connect in Ubuntu 17.10 onward. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to backport that feature to 16.04 since it's arguably not a bug fix but we'll note your request for it in xenial.
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1738528 Title: Sound applet reflects volume of different device when bluetooth device auto-connects To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1738528/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs