I will be switching from my iPhone to a Samsung Z Flip 5, and wondering if anyone has any experience using airpods and an apple watch with android. I don’t want to have to buy new accessories at the moment, and read everything works with android but not sure to what extent.

  • strongr_togethr@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Apple watches don’t work with android at all. You can use air pods with android though and you can download a third party app to have most of the air pods functionality.

  • InevitableWriting4@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not sure of any program that connects with the Apple Watch, but I do know about Airpods, although I don’t have Airpods so I cannot really help on things like its feature set.

    There is a program that is being maintained called CAPod, which is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that connects with Airpods ranging from 1st Gen to Pro.

    If you want faster updates, you might want to use F-Droid, which acts like an app store for FOSS software. It’s gonna take Google for a while to review and approve new updates. F-Droid’s own app might not appeal to you, so you can use F-Droid clients like Droid-ify.

    Anyways, that was a bit of an unnecessary tangent about F-Droid, just use the Play Store release of CAPod to not get too much hassled.

    • emmedup1119@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Thanks both for the feedback! So looks like Airpods are fine then. I am seeing people connect the watch if they are using bluebubbles or a similar service for imessage but not sure if it is worth the hassle.