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Usually, automatically connecting your AirPods to iPhone or iPad is a quick process. As long as your AirPods are out of the case and in your ears, you'll see them on the list. You will now see a list of all available devices. Here, tap on the 'AirPlay' icon located at the top right corner of the Now Playing widget. If you're using a device with a home button, swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Swipe down from the top right corner of the screen to drop the Control Center on iPhones with Face ID or iPads. You can connect your AirPods to your iPhone or iPad using Control Center without needing to use the Settings app. In a few seconds, you'll hear the familiar chime and your AirPods will be connected to your Mac. Here, select your AirPods from the list, make sure your AirPods are in your ears for quick switching, and click the “Connect” button. To manually connect AirPods to Mac, you can use the Bluetooth setting in the menu bar.

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Once you've paired your AirPods or AirPods Pro with an Apple device, they'll show up on all devices linked to your Apple ID. We'll discuss third-party alternatives below. The first option is built into Macs, iPhones and iPads.

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Additionally, you may want a manual way to switch between Apple devices. For example, if you just ended a call on your iPhone and pick up your iPad to start a video, your AirPods should automatically switch to iPad.īut, at the time of this writing, this feature had not yet been released. Once the feature is launched, your AirPods will automatically connect to the device you're using.

It should be released in the fall of 2020. Use the Bluetooth menu and AirPlay optionsĪpple is launching a new seamless switching experience for AirPods and AirPods Pro in iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOS Big Sur.

Use the automation of shortcuts on iPhone and iPad.

Use the Bluetooth menu and AirPlay options.

If the device doesn’t support it, you’ll need to pair and unpair it each time.

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There’s no software that is going to your initiate your Bluetooth devices to switch from one device to another - you can only imagine the security implications!īottom line, to easily switch between devices without complex the re-pairing as you describe, you need devices that support multiple pairings. There are many other brands (Bose, Apple AirPods, Sony, etc.) that have this functionality. Sennheiser headphones (my personal choice) can pair with up to 8 devices total and with 2 simultaneously. However, products like the Logitech MX series as well as the K380 (typing on it right now) can pair with up to 3 devices and switch with the press of a button. The Magic Keyboard, Mouse, and Trackpad are designed to be paired with a single computer (they make no reference to multiple device pairings). You purchase Bluetooth devices (keyboard, mouse, headset, etc.) that have multiple device support. I would like to seamlessly switch my Bluetooth devices (headphones, magic keyboard, touch pad) between work / personal Macs without complex repairing. Hope this helps, post a comment if it works or experienced other issues. When reconnecting pairing and connecting is run (unpair in beginning just in case) When disconnecting from currently connected device unpairing is done to avoid reconnect back and connection issues with other device. P.S the script sometimes hangs when trying to connect, in such case I turn off and back on the keyboard and run again.Įxplanation: first it is checked if we are connected if we are we disconnect and if not reconnect. Now, whenever you want to switch between devices run the script first on the device currently connected to keyboard and then run on the other device and viola! keyboard now connected to other device.

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Copy script to second device, make sure to update the blueutil_folder correctly.

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Enter script (notice my shell is zsh, so if yours is different either install it or update command to fit your shell, such as 'if' statement of parenthesis):.

In automator Create new automation of type 'Application'.

Run blueutil -paired and identify device address, this is the device id used below, just substitute '-' with ':' (e.g 40:e6:4b:8d:52:12).Install blue util (can be done via 'bower install blueutil').This works by installing blueutil and creating an identical automator script on both devices: Well, after much playing around I was able to find something that is pretty close.