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Re:Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019) by therealdrag0 on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:09PM (#23967087)
I love this feature, but Mac is the bully in this situation. It captures the connection often even when nothing is playing and when Mac is asleep it still tries to connect and probably due to low power mode takes FOREVER for the phone to sync and realize what I actually want is to play audio from my phone not laptop...

I found this project which helps with the later problem: https://github.com/odlp/bluesnooze

Re:Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019) by cactus2093 on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:54PM (#23968182)
Yeah maybe this is another case of walled garden apple stuff where it only works well if you're 100% in their ecosystem. They seem to have very chatty bluetooth headphone code in general, like the airpods are effectively always in pair mode you don't have to hold a button down or anything to get them to start pairing to another device. But the end result is it does work with fewer headaches than my Bose QC35 and is still just as easy to switch between devices. And apparently there are further improvements with that coming in iOS14 too.