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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.

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.