The XL automatically goes into pairing mode when turned on

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.

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

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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