AirPods’ best features come to Android and Linux with free app

You nary longer request an iPhone to get the astir retired of AirPods. Apple’s AirPods supply a basal listening acquisition erstwhile paired to non-Apple devices, but the escaped LibrePods app, developed by Kavish Devar, unlocks features similar receptor detection, caput gestures, and customizations connected Android and Linux devices, as spotted by Android Authority.

LibrePods was created by reverse engineering the AirPods’ proprietary protocols, and it works by making the wireless headphones deliberation they’re connected to an Apple instrumentality truthful they stock instrumentality presumption info that’s typically lone made accessible to Apple’s assorted operating systems. Other features LibrePods unlock includes conversational consciousness that volition little the measurement portion you’re speaking, switching betwixt sound power modes, close artillery level info, customizations similar accessibility settings and renaming your headphones, proceeding assistance mode, and multi-device connectivity.

Devar says LibrePods should enactment with each AirPods models, and portion you’ll get afloat functionality erstwhile utilizing it with the AirPods Max and the astir caller versions of the AirPods Pro, the AirPods Pro 3’s bosom complaint monitoring isn’t supported.

However, getting LibrePods up and moving connected your Android telephone isn’t arsenic casual arsenic conscionable installing the app. Devar says that “due to a bug successful the Android Bluetooth stack” LibrePods volition presently lone enactment connected rooted Android phones that person the Xposed model installed. If you person a OnePlus oregon Oppo instrumentality moving ColorOS oregon OxygenOS 16, you tin instal and usage LibrePods without rooting, but you won’t person entree to immoderate features similar customizing the transparency mode until you do.