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AirBar - Connect to your AirPods in a click

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I use my AirPods with my iPhone and Mac extensively but was always disappointed that the "seamless switching" would not automatically pick the audio source to use with my AirPods. To ease the pain of manually switching bluetooth devices on Mac I created this small utility to allow to force connect to my AirPods on my Mac from a tap on the menubar.

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This should be built into MacOS. Nice work, .
Maker
Appreciate it Ryan! Hope it will be soon enough (and AirBar won't be needed anymore 😢 😸 )
It's already. Enable sound shortcut in menu bar in sound settings, and AirPods will be there and you can switch between AirPods and Speakers. :)
agreeeeeee!
Not really. You still have to connect it via the Bluetooth menu so the AirPods switch from your iPhone to your Mac.
Nope, with continuity you don't have to do it ! You have to wait few seconds before the AirPods appearance.
Maker
Hey 👋 AirBar was a challenge / weekend project for myself to build & launch a product in less than 12 hours. The idea was to... 1. Find something to improve on from my personal experience 2. Build & ship in 12h or less. Hope this is useful to someone else as well!
How about making this work with android also in similar fashion? :)
Looks like it doesn't support versions below 10.14, and I see that folks who've upgraded to Mojave are also experiencing issues. Can you put up an update on this? Thanks and best wishes!
This sounds awesome, but I can't seem to get it to work. I'm on 10.14. It launched, shows up in the menu bar, then goes away after a few seconds.
same here.. running on mojave
+1 here.... 10.14 as well
ditto mojave
Same here not working for mojave
same here not working on Miojave
this is kind of like but free!
Only 10.14 😞
get up there then ;[)
Not always possible if it's a business machine ;)
Hi Are you aware of this issue? I get this message on my MacBook Pro `You have macOS 10.13.6. The application requires macOS 10.14 or later.`
I have the same issue (10.12) on an older mac.
As opposed to two-clicks?
Haha, I thought the same thing, this is the method I currently use. Also cool, my initials are JP and I named my airpods the same thing 😂
Ha! You've got good taste. Unfortunately, my mother, brother and sister all have the initials "JP" so the Bluetooth menu can be super confusing at family reunions. :)

You click and activate your AirPods. It's free. It works.

Nothing more to say.

Pros:

Brilliant - and free.

Cons:

It's free. What con could there possibly be?

Hi, and thanks for this. This app is crashing when I run it. I am using Mac OS 10.14... Any suggestions?
Crashes as soon as I click it with the pinwheel of doom. I want to love this.
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