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You may find value in this Mac app that disables the microphone input channel on AirPods as part of pairing them, which should in theory permanently resolve you
by floatingatoll 8y ago
You may find value in this Mac app that disables the microphone input channel on AirPods as part of pairing them, which should in theory permanently resolve your issue:
https://c-command.com/toothfairy/ https://c-command.com/toothfairy/
(Note that I neither know how they’re doing it nor have I tried to reverse engineer it. Works well for me in non-VMWare scenarios!)
- zbuttram 8y agoI have Toothfairy and it is amazing as a quicker way to connect my AirPods to my Mac, but I've tried that option for disabling input and it didn't seem to work for me unfortunately. Still absolutely worth the $3 for the other features though.
- mjtsai 8y agoThe only time I’ve seen the input switching not work is if there’s another app that keeps forcibly changing the input back to the AirPods. Some games and virtual environments do that. If you contact toothfairy@c-command.com, I can look into what the issue might be on your Mac.
- geerlingguy 8y agoThat’s great! This kind of app is priced perfectly for what it does. I’m going to give it a try this week, thanks for the rec! I use an external microphone anyways, so on my Mac I never use the AirPods as an input. I do on the iPhone and iPad, but not on the Mac.
- velobro 8y ago+1 for Tooth fairy. I use it to quickly switch between multiple different Bluetooth headsets when at work
- pasta1212 8y agoI do the same thing I think, but with Hammerspoon. The script I’m using in Hammerspoon automatically switches the Input Device back to Internal Microphone when a BT device is connected. Solves the issue for all BT devices w/speakers + mic. I haven’t used it, but I’m guessing ToothFairy does the same thing, although maybe it has some more bells and whistles.