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Has anyone actually TRIED using the AirPods in some form programmatically? It's impossible, you lock down your phone TouchID/FaceID and attempt to do a simple list by voice and "you need to unlock your Phone first" ... there is no trust in the pairing of hardware. I wanted to do a delivery platform based ONLY on the AirPods for all parties (pickup/dropoff/billing) but it's just not possible. I hope it changes in the future to reflect some of what is in this post.

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The Apple Watch is a lot better at this. It is considered trusted because it locks as soon as you take it off your arm

Given that airpods already know when they get removed form your ears, I wouldn't be surprised for the next iteration to have a form of "unlocking" once you unlock your phone or watch while connected to the airpods. There's no reason for you to not be able to do tasks as long as you don't remove the airpods.

The Apple H2 chip - featuring EarID ;-)

Voice fingerprinting (ideally done locally) would also pretty much solve the issue.

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