Having your AirPods, or AirPods Pro, switch from your iPhone to your Mac as you sit down at your desk is a brilliant idea, and really frustrating in practice. Here’s how to stop it.
Sometimes it does seem as if Apple staff live in a slightly different world to the rest of us. It’s definitely a world where the Wi-Fi is always on and always working at the speed of light, but now it’s also a world with perfect Bluetooth.
Introduced with iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur, AirPods and can tell over Bluetooth what devices are nearby. And they will switch to the one you want to listen to.
It is a marvellous idea and truly exemplifies all that is AirPods Pro great about Apple’s determination to make everything work. Unfortunately in practice, it’s really about all that is far from great with this idea.
So yes, if you are listening to music on your iPhone when you walk up to your Mac, your AirPods can automatically switch. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to Apple that you were enjoying that track and nothing is playing on the Mac.
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