After Effects refuses to recognize headphones m4 macbook

Just curious if anyone has ever encountered this: you plug in headphones to your macbook m4 and you can hear internet audio and Adobe Premiere audio through your headphones but when you go into After Effects you can hear the sound playing through the computer speakers and not the headphones while all other audio goes through headphones. Just me? After Effects 25.0.1 (Build 2), Mac OS Sequoia 15.1.1

yes ive definitely done a restart and shut down. this has persisted for a few days now. not sure when the issue started but couldnt have been that long ago since I recently bought this m4 macbook maybe 2 weeks ago