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See batteries, connect AirPods, control what’s playing, and move peripherals between Macs—all without leaving what you’re doing.
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AirBuddy 3
Launched this week
AirBuddy 3 brings over 150 new features and improvements, including a new design, powerful new ways to keep an eye on your devices, deeper media integration, revamped Magic Handoff, and many new options for automation and customization.
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I hunted AirBuddy 2.0 six years ago — and I've been following it's evolution ever since then. v3.0 is a massive upgrade and for anyone that uses Apple peripherals, you should really check this out.
Not only that — but I built a Raycast extension for AirBuddy so you can control all your devices from the comfort of your keyboard!
This is one of those apps you don't realize you need until you've used it. I especially like the battery pop-up and quick controls. Curious, was there a particular macOS limitation that was the hardest to work around while building AirBuddy?
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@aamirxv2 Thank you for the nice message!
For AirBuddy 3, this was definitely the now playing integration. Apple locked it down on macOS in the middle of the AirBuddy 3 beta cycle. The only way to work around that was to rewrite the integration to route all now playing data through a proxy background process instead of doing it in the main app process, which would have been a lot easier to do had it not happened after it was already implemented.
Moving peripherals between Macs without re-pairing is the feature I actually want - the usual Bluetooth handoff flow (unpair, forget, re-pair) is where I lose the most time switching machines. Is that peripheral move instant, or is there still a short handshake delay on the target Mac?
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@omri_ben_shoham1 It's still doing that under the hood, but in my experience it typically takes less than 3 seconds. Most users rely on it for switching between work and personal Macs once or twice a day, in which case that short delay is acceptable.
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yeaaah AirBuddy is one of those apps i forget i'm using until i'm on someone else's Mac haha. question – i jump between 2 Macs all day, does 3.0 auto-switch my AirPods when a call starts or do i still tap manually? that's the one thing that always breaks my flow
If i got it right - it solves the problem of apple keyboard repairing between home/work macbooks?
I’ve been using a more cumbersome solution for this. This looks like the lightweight version I was looking for.