Connect AirPods (or other Bluetooth headphones) to your Mac with a single click or keypress.
AirPods are great, but they don’t work quite as smoothly with Macs as they do iPhones. You can’t tell at a glance whether audio will play from the AirPods or your Mac’s built-in speaker, you have to dig into a Bluetooth submenu to connect, and then you have to go back to the menu to see when the AirPods are ready for use. ToothFairy streamlines this: just click an icon in the menu bar (or press a hotkey) to switch to the AirPods, and the icon always shows whether they’re connected.
– Works with AirPods, as well as any Bluetooth headphones, speakers, or headset that you can connect to your Mac.
– Click the hollow AirPods icon in the menu bar to switch to AirPods. It fills in to show they are connected and also displays a battery indicator.
– Supports multiple Bluetooth audio devices; you can choose a different icon and hotkey for each.
– Get the best audio quality. macOS will normally use the SCO codec if it thinks you’re going to use the microphone. ToothFairy can ensure that it uses the higher quality AAC codec when you only care about audio output: listening to music or video or playing a game.
– Disconnect a Bluetooth device by clicking the icon (or pressing the hotkey) again, so that you can switch back to your phone. AirPods and Beats devices with an Apple W1 chip do not need to be manually disconnected, and you can set them to “Connection only mode” to avoid accidental disconnetions when pressing the hotkey multiple times.
– ToothFairy automatically launches at login, so it’s always there when you need it.
– Optionally hide the Dock icon so it only appears in the menu bar. With the Dock icon hidden, you can right-click (or Control-click) the menu bar icon to access the settings.
– Run a shell script when the AirPods are connected or disconnected.
Note: ToothFairy works with devices that can be connected via the macOS Bluetooth menu. Please make sure the devices you want to connect have been paired to the system correctly before using them with ToothFairy.
What’s New:
Version 2.8
- If a Bluetooth audio device is connected but is not selected as the sound output device—as can happen if you are using Automatic Device SwitchingToothFairy now shows its menu bar icon as solid but faded out.
- Telling ToothFairy to connect to a Bluetooth device that’s connected but not the current sound output device will now set it as the sound output device instead of disconnecting.
- ToothFairy is better at detecting when a Bluetooth device has connected or disconnected in cases where macOS did not notify it.
- ToothFairy now converts carriage returns to line breaks when saving a script, as improper line breaks can prevent scripts from running.
- Updated the “How can I turn off Automatic Device Switching?” section of the manual.
- Worked around a macOS issue where sometimes a Bluetooth audio device would connect without being set as the sound output target.
- Worked around a macOS issue where an incorrect Bluetooth device name could be shown after disconnecting and reconnecting.
- Worked around some macOS issues that could cause crashes when reading battery information or adding a new Bluetooth device.
- Fixed a bug where the spinning progress indicator would be drawn for Light Mode when the Mac was running in Light Mode but the transparent menu bar was showing a dark desktop picture underneath. ToothFairy now treats this as defacto Dark Mode to make the progress indicator easier to see and match the rest of the menu bar content.
- Fixed a bug where the progress indicator for a device icon could be drawn on top of it.
- Fixed a bug where a connection or disconnection script could be run multiple times for the same event.
- Fixed a bug where device names were prematurely truncated in the preferences table view.
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