If you live in a Bluetooth-heavy world, it’s a no-brainer. With AirBuddy 2, the connection process of AirPods to the Mac is taken to the next level with a refreshed user interface, improved reliability, and many new features. It also comes with a new widget for showing battery levels, optional battery alerts and support for Shortcuts on the Mac.ĪirBuddy 2.5 is a free update to the $9.99 app. Created by developer and 9to5Mac contributor Guilherme Rambo, the app has now been. ![]() Handing off input devices isn’t something I do regularly, but it can be handy if you work across a desktop and laptop Mac or run a headless Mac server, for example. AirBuddy is a popular macOS app that enhances the experience of using AirPods and Beats headphones with a Mac. The latest version of the feature will even attempt to wake a target Mac up if it’s in sleep mode. It actually became more of a pain because it was freezing the auto-switching. I find that the new auto-switcher feature works better and Big Sur is already easy to connect the AirPods to. Today’s update introduces version 2.0 of that feature, which is faster and has been reliable in my testing. I paid for both Airbuddy 1 & Airbuddy 2, but I have it uninstalled now. As I covered with version 2.0, AirBuddy can also transfer your Apple trackpad, mouse, and keyboard connection to another Mac, using a feature called Magic Handoff. Open your AirPods’ case, and the app’s UI for connecting appears immediately. ![]() The newest version of Gui Rambo’s wonderful menu bar app for managing Bluetooth devices comes with some real goodies, as John Voorhees writes:Ĭonnecting to your devices and handing them off to another Mac is noticeably faster with AirBuddy 2.5.
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