{"id":430,"date":"2024-06-21T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:11:23","slug":"new-accessory-setup-in-ios-18-is-good-for-us-and-for-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/new-accessory-setup-in-ios-18-is-good-for-us-and-for-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"New accessory setup in iOS 18 is good for us, and for Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/New-accessory-setup-in-iOS-18.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> first launched <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/airpods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AirPods<\/a> back in 2016, it also introduced a whole new accessory setup process, designed to avoid the usual pain point of <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/bluetooth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluetooth<\/a> pairing.<\/p>\n<p>For almost eight years, it seemed like the company wanted to keep this exclusive to its own headphones, with competitors unable to take advantage of it. But <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/06\/20\/ios-18-api-setup-accessories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all that changes<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/ios-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iOS 18<\/a> \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,airpods,bluetooth,ios-18,opinion\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"955328\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/06\/21\/new-accessory-setup-in-ios-18\/#more-955328\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple first launched AirPods back in 2016, it also introduced a whole new accessory setup process, designed to avoid the usual pain point of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}