Fast Pair now supports earbuds with Bluetooth LE Audio, but seemingly only

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• Google has updated its Fast Pair service to work with earbuds that support the Bluetooth LE Audio standard.
• However, only devices that run Android 15 can apparently use Fast Pair to connect to Bluetooth LE Audio devices.
• This may be because Android 15 has numerous fixes to make Fast Pair work over LE Audio.

Pairing your Bluetooth earbuds to your Android phone can be a bit of a hassle, especially if the process of even getting your earbuds into pairing mode is itself a bit convoluted. To make pairing simpler, Google created Fast Pair, which provides a way for Android devices to quickly pair to compatible Bluetooth accessories. Fast Pair is supported by many different headphones and earbuds, but it currently doesnt work with audio products that use the new Bluetooth LE Audio standard. Thats changing soon, though.

When Fast Pair-compatible accessories enter pairing mode, they broadcast packets over Bluetooth Low Energy that nearby Android devices automatically pick up during periodic scans. These Android devices then perform a look-up in Googles Fast Pair database to find details on the accessory thats broadcasting. Finally, those devices show a pop-up that asks the user whether they want to pair to the broadcasting accessory.




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