AirPods: how to use them with an Android smartphone?

AirPods how to use them with an Android smartphone

AirPods are a hit with iPhone users. But Apple’s Bluetooth headphones can also be used on Android. Basic features are supported by default, and a few apps provide access to the little extras of headphones.

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Apple’s AirPods may well be designed for devices ios, they are above all listeners Bluetooth all that is more standard. To associate them with your smartphone Android, just place them in their case and long press the button on the back of it. They are now detectable.

Once associated, you can use the double tap on one of the listeners to pause the music or take a call. On the other hand, the sensors detecting their presence in your ears are not operational: impossible to pause the music automatically.

AirPods can be paired like any Bluetooth headset.  © Futura Sciences

Apps for additional features

Of them applications allow you to unlock the “advanced” features of AirPods. “AirBattery” displays the battery level of each earbud, as well as the charging case, in a window similar to that of iOS or in notifications. The latest version also fills the lack of headphone detection to pause music.

AirBattery and Assistant Trigger: two apps to unlock the full potential of AirPods.  © Futura Sciences

Assistant Trigger offers the possibility of assigning the double tap when launching Google assistant. You will not be able, as on iOS, to independently assign the functions to each headset, and the assistant is not available when you are listening to music. An option, reserved for the paid version of the app, allows you to determine that the first double tap pauses the music, and the second launches the assistant.

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