[Potential Bug] Seam & AirPods connection
In my recent post about the AirPods connection bug and phone calls, I believe Apple’s automatic AirPods transition from devices detects Seam as a genuine audio output application. This forces it to connect immediately.
I’ve noticed this behaviour ever since I started reopening my laptop from sleep mode. It instantly connects my AirPods straight away even though I’m listening to music on my iPhone.
To Recreate this issue:
Ensure your mac is “asleep”
Play some music on your iphone/ipad or other devices other than the Mac with Seam.
Open your mac and it will connect it straightaway.
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Ramzi
Sep 3
Update on this: I traced it in the system logs, and Seam is not the cause.
The real chain is: the Mac unlocks, that gate lifts, the AirPods advertise, and because they are in your ears and idle, macOS claims them.
Seam does play a short sound at unlock, on the built-in speaker. You can turn it off in Settings, Lock Screen. It will not change the AirPods behaviour.
One thing I could not reproduce: every wake in my logs had the AirPods idle rather than streaming from the phone. If you see it steal them mid-song, run this right after and send me the output:
/usr/bin/log show --last 5m --predicate 'process == "audioaccessoryd"' --style compact | grep -E 'EvaluateNearby|FindHeadphone|Evaluator: connect'
mchung
Sep 3
This is under all my assumption, I could be wrong.