The XL automatically goes into pairing mode when turned on

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The XL automatically goes into pairing mode when it’s turned on. This is not a regular design choice. The pairing mode should be initiated by the user by long pressing the ANC button only. It should never be automatically, absolutely never. Why? Because if I’m in a busy train and I turn on my XL, but forgot to turn on Bluetooth on my FP4, or turned Bluetooth off myself but forgot to turn off my XL, then someone else has the opportunity to connect to my XL. If this happens to someone that doesn’t understand what’s happening it could be hard for someone to fix it, since the auto-connect will also look for that newly connected device after restarting. It’s more secure and user friendly if pairing mode is initiated by the user only, not automatically when the device is turned on and doesn’t find a previously connected device in the first 3 seconds.

I reported the issue and it was forwarded to the product team.

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Can more people reproduce this? Or do I have a faulty chipset or something like that? :nerd_face: I’ve factory reset it many times. I can reproduce this issue all the time.

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Can someone try and reproduce this? With this information we can make the Fairbuds XL better :wink:

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Same here. Fairbuds XL 2025. When there’s no BT available (turned off on my phone) they go into pairing mode about 5 seconds after I turn them on.

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same here, it bugged me for so long..
i feared the made them like this to be more ‘newcomer’ friendly.. but yeah..

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I can confirm as well. I’ll contact support again, let’s what they say.

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Hi, my Fairbuds XL (AUHEAD-1GR-WW1) from September 2024 have the same behaviour.

I agree that user-controlled pairing mode would be a better UX design and I would like to “pitch-in” on this feature request. Does anyone know if there a specific way to request features on the Fairphone website besides contacting support?

According to Fairphone’s documentation, long-pressing the ANC button is primarily intended for adding a second device via dual-point connectivity, not as the main way to initiate pairing. So this seems to be intentional design rather than a bug.

Also, I couldn’t find any Bluetooth specification or standard that specifically flags this behaviour as incorrect. The closest is a general OWASP principle (4.3.1) recommending discoverability be limited to “when necessary”.