Apple has shown the way with its AirPods, but owners of Android smartphones can also simplify the Bluetooth connection with wireless headphones. Google’s Fast Pair is hardly known, although more and more manufacturers are relying on the standard.

Google Fast Pair: Fast Bluetooth pairing on Android

When Apple presented its first AirPods, the Android community was amazed. Such a simple and quick pairing of the wireless mini headphones with the iPhone was a real novelty. Google has long since followed suit for the Android world and now has an improved and polished user interface for Fast pair presented. This means that Bluetooth devices can also be connected quickly and easily under Android.

With Fast Pair, the location of the Android smartphone in relation to the Bluetooth device plays a decisive role. For example, if there are headphones in the immediate vicinity, the Pairing with a single tap on the display of the Android phone. In many cases, a matching picture of the headphones is displayed on the smartphone so that the wrong device is not accidentally connected. Paired devices are now also saved in the Google account to make connecting even easier.

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Meanwhile you can more than 100 devices Simply connect different manufacturers via Fast Pair. In addition to headphones, smartwatches and speakers are also supported. In addition to Google, OnePlus, Fitbit, Bose, Sony and JBL rely on Fast Pair. The list is likely to get longer in the future.

Google Fast Pair: keep an eye on the battery

Fast Pair can do more than just provide a fast pairing via Bluetooth. If at least Android 10 is installed on the smartphone, the charge status of the Batteries of the connected device keep an eye on. If you want, you can give the wireless headphones their own name here. Support for Google’s Find My Device is also included.