Meta has spent nine months pressing Apple to open up to rivals the way it pairs devices like AirPods, and won't take Apple's excuses for an answer.


Facebook owner Meta has previously been trying to use European Union regulations to get it access to iPhone user data that it cannot possibly have a legitimate use for. But now it's been revealed that the company has also pressed for potentially more reasonable help on pairing its devices.

"We would like to be able to pair a Meta device with an iPhone or iPad," writes the company in its formal EU interoperability request, "and have it automatically available and paired on other iPhones and iPads associated with that user by coordination via Meta's own cloud services."


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