Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by gunapologist99 on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:09PM (#28406049)

I have Airpods as well as Jabra Elite 65t, Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro, and various Plantronics. The Apple are the only ones that are wonky. There seems to be some other protocol for them that needs to be enabled, but I didn't bother and just switched to the Galaxy Buds Pro (the Jabras are excellent as well.)

The very first DDG result for "airpods linux bluetooth" is this one: https://askubuntu.com/questions/922860/pairing-apple-airpods...

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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by istingray on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:16PM (#28406150)

Does the mic work in any of these? I found it to be impossible

Re: airpods linux bluetooth -- CLI commands to get bluetooth headphones just to play sound is not viable for Linux to take off.

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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by gunapologist99 on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:26PM (#28408294)

You have to change the profile from "headphones" (high quality audio) to "headset" to have a microphone. It's a matter of a few clicks.

I'm just pointing out that Apple was doing something different. As far as that being not viable for Linux to take off... well, I respect your opinion.

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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by istingray on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:21PM (#28408916)

The instructions you linked state that to connect Airpods one needs to:

Set ControllerMode = bredr or ControllerMode = dual by editing /etc/bluetooth/main.conf file using sudo nano /etc/bluetooth/main.conf command (or another text editor of your choice)

sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

Try to pair again.

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