![]() ![]() It’s easy enough to check the battery of devices sitting nearby without the help of AirBuddy, but it’s nice that I can also see that the battery of my iPad sitting two floors above me is running low and should be plugged in if I want to read in bed tonight. There is a Mac Today widget that provides battery status for your Mac and any headphones or iOS devices you’ve ever connected to your Mac too. It also allows you to connect them to your Mac with a single click. Instead, once you’ve adjusted the app’s handful of settings to your liking, the app appears almost immediately when you open your AirPods case near your Mac or turn on your Beats headphones.ĪirBuddy doesn’t just provide the status of your AirPods though. The app runs in the background as a helper process, so you won’t usually see a window or dock icon while it’s running. That means in addition to AirPods, AirBuddy can also control Beats headphones that have a W1 wireless chip. The app works with a Mac that supports Bluetooth LE and is running macOS Mojave and any headphones that include Apple’s proprietary W1 chip. AirBuddy solves that problem, making it as trivially easy to connect AirPods to a Mac as it is to do the same with an iPhone. AirPods connect almost instantly to iOS devices, but the process of pairing them to a Mac is not as simple, often requiring fiddling with your Mac’s Bluetooth settings from the menu bar or System Preferences. Although The Verge and other sites report that the new headphones will begin shipping on October 30th in the US, currently lists the ship date as October 29th during the pre-order checkout process.ĪirBuddy by Guilherme Rambo is one of the handiest Mac utilities I’ve tried in a while. The Solo Pros come in six colors: light blue, red, dark blue, ivory, black, and gray. The Solo Pros charge with a USB-A to Lightning cable for the first time too. The company also says that a ten-minute charge provides up to 3 hours of battery life. If those features are turned off, the company says the battery life lasts 40 hours. According to Beats, the headphones, which are turned on and off by unfolding and folding them, get 22 hours of battery life with noise cancellation and Transparency turned on. The Beats Solo Pros feature active noise cancellation to filter out external sound and what Beats calls Transparency that uses external microphones to allow some sounds through, so users remain aware of their surroundings when using the headphones. Unfolding and folding the Solo Pros turns them on and off. You can purchase the app directly from the AirBuddy website for $9.99 for new users, $4.99 as an upgrade from the first version of AirBuddy if you bought it in 2019, and for free if you purchased the app in 2020. Not only can you quickly connect headphones, so they’re immediately ready for a meeting or for listening to music, but the app helps keep you on top of the battery status of every connected device.ĪirBuddy has been available for pre-order since last month, but today is its official release date. With AirBuddy 2, the app’s functionality has been greatly expanded beyond anything Apple offers, making it indispensable for anyone who connects multiple wireless devices to their Macs. It’s also worth noting that AirBuddy 2 also includes a widget that works with both Catalina and Big Sur to display the battery status of each of the devices it tracks.ĪirBuddy started as an app that brought an iOS feature for headphones to the Mac. AirBuddy 2’s Catalina widget (left) and Big Sur three sizes of widgets (right). ![]()
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