{"id":471,"date":"2024-06-21T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/?p=471"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:22:13","slug":"new-accessory-setup-in-ios-18-is-good-for-us-and-for-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/new-accessory-setup-in-ios-18-is-good-for-us-and-for-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"New accessory setup in iOS 18 is good for us, and for Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/New-accessory-setup-in-iOS-18.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> first launched <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/airpods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AirPods<\/a> back in 2016, it also introduced a whole new accessory setup process, designed to avoid the usual pain point of <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/bluetooth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluetooth<\/a> pairing.<\/p>\n<p>For almost eight years, it seemed like the company wanted to keep this exclusive to its own headphones, with competitors unable to take advantage of it. But <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/06\/20\/ios-18-api-setup-accessories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all that changes<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/ios-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iOS 18<\/a> \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,airpods,bluetooth,ios-18,opinion\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"955328\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/06\/21\/new-accessory-setup-in-ios-18\/#more-955328\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple first launched AirPods back in 2016, it also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airpods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}