{"id":1657,"date":"2025-10-07T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:37:54","slug":"toothfairy-2-8-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/07\/toothfairy-2-8-8\/","title":{"rendered":"ToothFairy 2.8.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"app-icon\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/images\/2.8.7\/toothfairy-icon@2x.png\" height=\"128\" width=\"128\" alt=\"ToothFairy Icon\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"store-right-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/store\/mac-app-store\/toothfairy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/images\/mac-app-store.svg\" alt=\"Download on the Mac App Store\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"store-right-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/store\/setapp\/toothfairy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/images\/setapp.svg\" alt=\"Available on Setapp\" style=\"width: 122px; height: 40px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n<p>Version 2.8.8 of <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/\">ToothFairy<\/a> is now available.<\/p>\n\n<p>ToothFairy streamlines using AirPods and other Bluetooth devices with your\nMac. No more digging into menus or Control Center. Your headphones, mouse, and\nkeyboard can get their own icons right in the menu bar, and you can always see\nat a glance whether they\u2019re connected or disconnected and what the battery\nlevel is. Connect or disconnect with a single click or keypress. See the\nstatus update and show where your Mac\u2019s audio will play from. ToothFairy can\nmake music and videos sound better by using a higher quality codec for audio\noutput. It can also run scripts when Bluetooth devices connect or disconnect.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is a free update that includes the following changes:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/images\/2.8.8\/bluetooth-connect@2x.png\" title=\"Select a Bluetooth device for use with ToothFairy.\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"Select a Bluetooth device for use with ToothFairy.\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/images\/2.8.8\/bluetooth-connect-thumb%402x.png\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a>Due to a bug in macOS Tahoe 26, sometimes a Blueooth device will be correctly paired with the Mac but not shown in the Bluetooth selector dialog when you try to <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/help\/adding-a-device\">add the device<\/a> in ToothFairy. If that happens, go to <strong>System Settings \u2023 Bluetooth<\/strong> and click the <strong>i<\/strong> button next to your device. Then click <strong>Forget This Device\u2026<\/strong> and then <strong>Forget Device<\/strong>. Then re-pair the Bluetooth device with your Mac. Now it should show up in the Bluetooth selector dialog in ToothFairy. The dialog now includes some text explaining this.<\/li>\n\t<li>Removed an unused icon file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/images\/2.8.7\/\/battery-status@2x.png\" title=\"See multiple Bluetooth devices at once, including their battery levels.\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"161\" alt=\"See multiple Bluetooth devices at once, including their battery levels.\" src=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/images\/2.8.7\/battery-status-thumb%402x.png\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a>ToothFairy 2.8.8 works with macOS 10.13 through macOS Tahoe 26 and requires a <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/help\/requirements\">Bluetooth device<\/a>. In-depth information about ToothFairy is available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/downloads\/manual\/ToothFairyManual-2.8.8.pdf\">manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you enjoy using ToothFairy, please take a moment to review it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/store\/mac-app-store\/toothfairy\">Mac App Store<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macupdate.com\/app\/mac\/58564\/toothfairy\">MacUpdate<\/a> or to mention it on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toothfairymac\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/indieapps.space\/@toothfairymac\">Mastodon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/toothfairymac\">Instagram<\/a>, Facebook, or your own site. We\u2019d really appreciate it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 2.8.8 of ToothFairy is now available. ToothFairy streamlines using AirPods and other Bluetooth devices with your Mac. No more digging into menus or Control Center. Your headphones, mouse, and keyboard can get their own icons right in the menu bar, and you can always see at a glance whether they\u2019re connected or disconnected and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}