Now that I’ve used the AirPods for several weeks I’ll bring you up to date.
If you’ve paired with an iPhone and an iPad as I have putting the AirPods back in the ear it will open the device last used….swiping up from the bottom of the iPad or iPhone will bring up the windows that allow the AirPod to be connected to the other device, you don’t have to open the device, go to settings, go to Bluetooth, and choose AirPods to make the switch, it’s quick and works every time. If you take either of the AirPods out of the ear it will pause the book or music…perfect. Putting it back in the ear it will resume the recording…I accidentally found if I cup my hand that is holding the AirPod it will begin the recording, I can’t do the cupping…. If the speaker gets too much ear wax it will stop playing, I couldn’t understand one morning why I had mono rather than stereo until I looked and found the wax, upon removal it started working again. I have also noticed the range of these from the iPhone is huge, I don’t have any other wireless earbuds that come even close. I pumped gas in the car tonight, the pump told me to go inside for the receipt, without thinking I walked inside the building and had a line to wait my turn. I continued to listen to the book the entire time and didn’t realize I had left the phone in the car until I got back…I have two other brands of wireless earbuds, neither wouldn’t begin to keep the connection at the distance I was away from the phone. Carrying them around with me in a small flip phone pouch makes control and accessibility a breeze. I slap the iPhone on the magnetic bracket at the top of the windshield when entering the car, open the pouch and put in the AirPods and the tone tells me they are connected and the phone lights up, all I need to do is hit the play arrow…15-20 seconds at the most. There is a time period of disconnect that will not bring up the last book or Ted talk, or whatever, I then have to go into Apple’s Books App to start the recording, but the timeout period is very long as normally the book opens and starts playing…if it’s a short time, like paying at a drive through, inserting the Pod will cause the recording to start immediately. Using Siri to send a verbal text, book pauses and starts again when the text is complete. Receiving a phone call, book pauses and then resumes at the end of the call. I simply can’t say enough about these, they are fantastic… I am on the “Speak Up” group of a major audio firm in this country, and they have ask the info they have wanted me to comment on not be talked about but I will say there is something coming that may be an alternative to the AirPods but I’m not sure as they haven’t yet made it clear how the audio will be private yet clear with the design they are proposing….if it works it will be a simple way to carry around our listening devise but nothing as discrete and flexible as the AirPods. And I do get a few “looks”, I’m thinking they wonder why I was released from the institution but if they are an Apple geek, they know. John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
