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Could be bad design, or could be good shared-space / privacy-focused design. Letting someone else yoink a connected input device in a hypothetical coffee shop o
by kemayo 6y ago
Could be bad design, or could be good shared-space / privacy-focused design. Letting someone else yoink a connected input device in a hypothetical coffee shop or office with 50 people nearby is a recipe for annoyance or even for privacy-invasion. (Even if it only lets you grab devices you've previously been paired to, that's still an easy thing in an office where a lot of the equipment is more communal.)
My recollection is that the magic keyboard / trackpad insta-pair if you connect them via wire. Would plugging them each in to a lightning cable for a second to switch their allegiance work better for you than manually unpairing? Obviously it's still a hassle.
- lemming 6y agoMy recollection is that the magic keyboard / trackpad insta-pair if you connect them via wire. I didn't know that, thanks - I'll try that. It's still a pain, but less so than having to track my wife's computer down. It does beg the question of why I'm going wireless at all, of course.