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> switching quickly between phone and laptop like Airpods do?

They do that? Mine can't even switch quickly between my corporate and my own iphone.

Are they on the same iCloud account? I believe that's the magic needed.

Of course not, that's the whole point of having a separate corp phone ;)

But why would switching headphone connections need the cloud... ah... nevermind...

It doesn’t need “the cloud” (switching works offline) but it does need to verify that the device it’s switching to belongs to you, which it does using a keypair associated with your account.

Didn't I previously prove this by completing the pairing process anyway?

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