{"id":287184,"date":"2018-11-28T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=287184"},"modified":"2018-11-28T09:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T07:12:40","slug":"android-bluetooth-fast-pair-feature-now-works-on-multiple-devices-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/287184-android-bluetooth-fast-pair-feature-now-works-on-multiple-devices-at-once.html","title":{"rendered":"Android Bluetooth Fast Pair feature now works on multiple devices at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2018\/11\/fast-pair-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google has announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it will be updating its Fast Pair tool to allow users to pair Bluetooth devices with multiple Android phones and tablets, as well as Chromebooks, at once.<\/p>\n<p>When you pair with one Google device, all devices in the vicinity that are connected to the same Google account will also be linked.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, your Bluetooth devices will automatically remember which devices they have connected with previously, and will connect to them again when close by.<\/p>\n<p>Google said it is working with a variety of companies in the Bluetooth audio space to implement support for this new feature.<\/p>\n<p>Apple already allows for this functionality through its AirPods, which let users switch between various devices connected to the same iCloud account.<\/p>\n<p>This update has begun rolling out to devices that run Android 6.0 and higher.<\/p>\n<p>Chromebook users will have to wait until next year before the functionality is added.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/287168-the-next-oneplus-smartphone-will-be-a-mclaren.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The next OnePlus smartphone will be a McLaren<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google said it is working with a variety of companies in the Bluetooth audio space to implement support for this new feature.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":268787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,2622,47028],"class_list":["post-287184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-chromebook","tag-fast-pair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287200,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287184\/revisions\/287200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}