Marco Arment

I mean, one, these controls being split up in all sorts of weird places is not great, but two, it continues to frustrate me that you can't even get to these controls unless you have the AirPods, like, essentially connected to your phone and in your ears at the time. Um, and the other thing is like, so this is under like, you have to look at the press and hold thing.

I mean, one, these controls being split up in all sorts of weird places is not great, but two, it continues to frustrate me that you can't even get to these controls unless you have the AirPods, like, essentially connected to your phone and in your ears at the time. Um, and the other thing is like, so this is under like, you have to look at the press and hold thing.

And then for the left and right AirPods, and there are separate sub menus for the left AirPod and the right AirPod, because I assume there's your specific instructions down there, but the noise control selections, whatever you do on the left is mirrored on the right.

And then for the left and right AirPods, and there are separate sub menus for the left AirPod and the right AirPod, because I assume there's your specific instructions down there, but the noise control selections, whatever you do on the left is mirrored on the right.

Because I kind of wish that it was the opposite, uh, that you could do them separately because then you could have the left ear, like every, every mode would be one click and hold away. You know what I mean? You'd have two on left ear. Yeah. and two on the right ear. So no matter what mode you're in, you'd always be one tap away. I guess you could be two taps away. But anyway, it doesn't matter.

Because I kind of wish that it was the opposite, uh, that you could do them separately because then you could have the left ear, like every, every mode would be one click and hold away. You know what I mean? You'd have two on left ear. Yeah. and two on the right ear. So no matter what mode you're in, you'd always be one tap away. I guess you could be two taps away. But anyway, it doesn't matter.

It's a bad UI for multiple reasons. And one of them is if you go into the left ear and change some stuff, when you go into the right ear, well, look, those changes you made in the left ear are mirrored there, but only for the noise control section.

It's a bad UI for multiple reasons. And one of them is if you go into the left ear and change some stuff, when you go into the right ear, well, look, those changes you made in the left ear are mirrored there, but only for the noise control section.

Anyway, this is all moot because since all the promotion of the adaptive mode, I have now, as we stated last time, it is now a mode that's in my rotation. So I have them all turned on. Including, by the way, this is my fall update for my AirPods. My AirPods 4 with noise canceling. One of the reasons I have all four in my rotation is because I discovered a use for off.

Anyway, this is all moot because since all the promotion of the adaptive mode, I have now, as we stated last time, it is now a mode that's in my rotation. So I have them all turned on. Including, by the way, this is my fall update for my AirPods. My AirPods 4 with noise canceling. One of the reasons I have all four in my rotation is because I discovered a use for off.

Other than trying to save battery when I'm in bed at night at the end of the day and I don't have my things charged, right? Turns out that if you go out to walk the dog and it's kind of chilly and you put a hat on, the hat rubs against the microphones that are used for noise canceling and makes a terrible... You know, like it amplifies the noise. You get used to it. Yeah.

Other than trying to save battery when I'm in bed at night at the end of the day and I don't have my things charged, right? Turns out that if you go out to walk the dog and it's kind of chilly and you put a hat on, the hat rubs against the microphones that are used for noise canceling and makes a terrible... You know, like it amplifies the noise. You get used to it. Yeah.

So transparency, transparency, adaptive and noise canceling are a no go when wearing a hat. So off has found a very important role in my life now. I'm very happy for that.

So transparency, transparency, adaptive and noise canceling are a no go when wearing a hat. So off has found a very important role in my life now. I'm very happy for that.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep, this is from Michael Burke. He says, the issue with global keyboard shortcuts requiring a modifier other than option shift only seems to apply to apps using Carbon's register event hotkey API, which doesn't require the user to grant any special permissions in order to work. There is another method that can be used to track global key presses, which is part of the NSN

Yep, this is from Michael Burke. He says, the issue with global keyboard shortcuts requiring a modifier other than option shift only seems to apply to apps using Carbon's register event hotkey API, which doesn't require the user to grant any special permissions in order to work. There is another method that can be used to track global key presses, which is part of the NSN

NSEvent framework, nsevent.add global monitor for events, which I've used, by the way, but it requires the user to grant the app accessibility permissions. Even though the Carbon API has been deprecated, it's stuck around since there's no true modern API that doesn't make you show a dialogue, and a lot of popular packages for global keyboard shortcuts are based on it.

NSEvent framework, nsevent.add global monitor for events, which I've used, by the way, but it requires the user to grant the app accessibility permissions. Even though the Carbon API has been deprecated, it's stuck around since there's no true modern API that doesn't make you show a dialogue, and a lot of popular packages for global keyboard shortcuts are based on it.