Apple Plans AirPods-Like Pairing for Meta's Glasses and Quest

Apple is processing a caller API that volition fto third-party accessories, including Meta's Ray-Ban ‌Meta‌ glasses and Quest headsets, automatically brace crossed a user's Apple devices the aforesaid mode AirPods and the Apple Watch bash today, according to Apple's EU Interoperability Request page.


The program responds to a petition ‌Meta‌ filed successful October 2025 nether the EU's Digital Markets Act, asking Apple to fto a ‌Meta‌ device, erstwhile paired with 1 iPhone oregon iPad, automatically go disposable connected a user's different Apple devices without other prompts. Third-party accessories person ne'er been capable to pat into that ability, meaning owning non-Apple hardware alongside an iPhone has ever progressive much friction. If Apple builds this out, that spread volition close, astatine slightest for whichever manufacturers get entree to the caller API.

Apple told ‌Meta‌ connected February 4 that it plans to fto third-party apps entree cryptographic materials that marque a pairing completed connected 1 Apple instrumentality usable connected another, secured by a league cardinal and a one-time, per-accessory idiosyncratic consent. Apple expects to decorativeness improvement by outpouring 2027 and vessel it "shortly thereafter," which points toward an iOS 27.x update, perchance iOS 27.4, though Apple has not yet confirmed a version.

The diagnostic runs connected AccessorySetupKit and Proximity Pairing, infrastructure Apple built to comply with a March 2025 European Commission ruling and which lone works successful the EU today, the aforesaid infrastructure down the proximity pairing feature already unrecorded for EU users. ‌Meta‌ has objected that adopting it would unit the institution to wantonness Core Bluetooth, which it relies connected for pairing everyplace extracurricular Europe, and has asked Apple to decouple the two. Apple has declined truthful far, though it told ‌Meta‌ that enactment extracurricular the EU "is thing we are inactive considering."

The petition remains successful signifier 3 arsenic of Apple's astir caller update. ‌Meta‌ hasn't yet invoked the DMA's ceremonial quality solution process, which would trigger a reappraisal by Apple's Interoperability Request Review Board wrong 30 moving days. Until then, Apple's program proceeds with a outpouring 2027 rollout tied to AccessorySetupKit, successful the EU only.
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