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Rainer Selvet

AirBar - Connect to your AirPods in a click

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I use my AirPods with my iPhone and Mac extensively but was always disappointed that the "seamless switching" would not automatically pick the audio source to use with my AirPods. To ease the pain of manually switching bluetooth devices on Mac I created this small utility to allow to force connect to my AirPods on my Mac from a tap on the menubar.

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Ryan Hoover
This should be built into MacOS. Nice work, @tiivik.
Rainer Selvet
Maker
@rrhoover Appreciate it Ryan! Hope it will be soon enough (and AirBar won't be needed anymore 😢 😸 )
Thibaut
@tiivik @rrhoover It's already. Enable sound shortcut in menu bar in sound settings, and AirPods will be there and you can switch between AirPods and Speakers. :)
Laurens
@tiivik @rrhoover agreeeeeee!
Antonio Carusone
@tiivik @rrhoover @thlbaut Not really. You still have to connect it via the Bluetooth menu so the AirPods switch from your iPhone to your Mac.
Thibaut
@tiivik @rrhoover @aisleone Nope, with continuity you don't have to do it ! You have to wait few seconds before the AirPods appearance.
Rainer Selvet
Maker
Hey 👋 AirBar was a challenge / weekend project for myself to build & launch a product in less than 12 hours. The idea was to... 1. Find something to improve on from my personal experience 2. Build & ship in 12h or less. Hope this is useful to someone else as well!
Shivam Dewan
@tiivik How about making this work with android also in similar fashion? :)
Praval Singh
@tiivik Looks like it doesn't support versions below 10.14, and I see that folks who've upgraded to Mojave are also experiencing issues. Can you put up an update on this? Thanks and best wishes!
Antonio Carusone
This sounds awesome, but I can't seem to get it to work. I'm on 10.14. It launched, shows up in the menu bar, then goes away after a few seconds.
Jean K. Villalobos
@aisleone any fix for this?
Juan Buis
this is kind of like ToothFairy but free!
MORPHINE
Only 10.14 😞
Haig Nalbandian
@photomorphine @laurens_laudowicz Not always possible if it's a business machine ;)
Armen Mkrtchian
Hi @tiivik Are you aware of this issue? I get this message on my MacBook Pro `You have macOS 10.13.6. The application requires macOS 10.14 or later.`
Joshua Pinter
As opposed to two-clicks?
John Peele
@joshuapinter Haha, I thought the same thing, this is the method I currently use. Also cool, my initials are JP and I named my airpods the same thing 😂
Joshua Pinter
@johnwpeele Ha! You've got good taste. Unfortunately, my mother, brother and sister all have the initials "JP" so the Bluetooth menu can be super confusing at family reunions. :)
Chris Frantz
Crashes as soon as I click it with the pinwheel of doom. I want to love this.
E.T.Cook

You click and activate your AirPods. It's free. It works.

Nothing more to say.

Pros:

Brilliant - and free.

Cons:

It's free. What con could there possibly be?

Paul Michaels
Hi, and thanks for this. This app is crashing when I run it. I am using Mac OS 10.14... Any suggestions?
Timmu Tõke

Love it

Pros:

Works like magic

Cons:

Could also work with other bluetooth headphones

Timmu Tõke
This is epic, I've been struggling with my AirPods for way too long already!
Roland Clifford
I like It,,
John Foster
can be useful
Jerre Baumeister
Just a headsup @tiivik: "AirBar.dmg is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous"
Artyom Mihelson
You Are A GENIUS!
Kaspar Tiri
Looks awesome! Great job, @tiivik 🙏
Erna V Waterman
Looks good
Raffi Muradyan
cool
Marwan
Well this is just perfect 😍