![]() He is thinking of support for the Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard from Apple. ![]() Guilherme Rambo says on Twitter that he wants to expand AirBuddy with more functionalities in the future. Handy, because with a simple click you can immediately check the battery percentage of all your Apple devices. Even if your iPhone and/or iPad are nearby, you can see how full they are in the widget. ![]() This allows you to check how full your AirPods are, and at the same time you can see how long your Mac will last with the current battery percentage. ![]() It’s best to just eliminate the issue altogether by telling it to connect for output only when connecting AirBuddy allows this, and macOS alone doesn’t.Also useful is that there is an AirBuddy widget for the Notification Center on your Mac. It does this randomly, even with nothing open that could possibly need the microphone and certainly nothing actively using it. Sometimes, when connecting my AirPods, macOS likes to choose the AirPods for both output and input, which given Bluetooth 4.2’s reduced bandwidth means atrocious output audio quality until you manually switch the input back to the built-in mics. Unless Apple has begun blacklisting certain high-profile incidents like these, and I don’t know why it would/should, these edge cases will continue to be a nuisance for the foreseeable future, pending updates on developers’ end.Īn example of something that AirBuddy 2 allows that macOS Big Sur doesn’t is so-called “connection modes,” which resolves a major nuisance for me, an iMac user stuck on Bluetooth 4.2. It’s still a mess on the Mac - rapidly improving, but enough of a mess that I have had to disable sound effects on multiple apps and even websites so that (for example) a new chat sound effect from Facebook’s website doesn’t cause audio to switch over to my Mac from my iPhone while playing music. Yes, I’ve been testing automatic device switching since it was available and kept my Mac updated. Then what on earth are you basing your posts on? Have you been running the last 11.0.1 beta (likely GM) since it came out and actually tested these BT functions? If not, then what? Just pulled something out of the air for sh*ts and grins? AirBuddy users who purchased the AirBuddy app in 2019 can upgrade for $4.99 in the app, and AirBuddy users who purchased the original app in 2020 will get a free upgrade to AirBuddy 2. You can connect iPhones, iPads, and other Macs running AirBuddy 2 to your main Mac to monitor battery life, and in addition to making it easy to swap devices with headphones, it's also designed to make it simple to transfer a Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, or Magic Keyboard between Macs with a click.Ĭustom connection modes are available to set listening mode, volume, and microphone access when AirPods connect to a Mac, and the app offers up historical data about headphone usage such as listening time, call time, and battery life for 12 hours, 24 hours, or the prior day.ĪirBuddy 2 can be purchased from the AirBuddy website for $9.99. Battery life is displayed in the menu bar or in the Today center, and a swipe lets you change to a new listening mode. When AirPods are near a Mac with AirBuddy 2 installed, a window pops up that lets you click to connect. App developer Guilherme Rambo last year released AirBuddy, an app that's designed to bring iOS-like AirPods integration to the Mac, and today, Rambo is releasing an updated version of the app, AirBuddy 2.Ĭompared to the original version of AirBuddy, the updated app features a redesigned user interface, reliability improvements, and several new features like historical usage data and custom connection modes.ĪirBuddy 2 is meant to make connecting AirPods and Beats headphones to a Mac as seamless as connecting to an iOS device.
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