I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones, which I have been using since 2022. Today, I was sitting on the bus when some random person connected to them and started playing Free Bird.
It was a bit funny, but I don’t want this to become a regular thing. Is there a way of locking the headphones to certain Bluetooth addresses? Or a way of making it not show up automatically on phones (similar to a hidden WiFi network)?
The headphones in question are the JBL Tune 510, which have a USB-C port. However, I don’t know if this can be used to flash firmware.
If there’s already a comment telling me to “just use wired” or something, please don’t tell me again. It’s the best solution, but my phone doesn’t have a headphone jack (fuck you, Apple).
This is probably becuase the headphones have a bug that can be exploited - normally this should not be possible at all.
JBL does have an app (at least for my android), so I would recommend getting that and checking for any firmware upgrades.
Other then that there isn’t probably any easy way for you to prevent it (well except for the wired-only mode as you say - through lighting to jack and female jack to usb-c cables).
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This is probably becuase the headphones have a bug that can be exploited - normally this should not be possible at all.
JBL does have an app (at least for my android), so I would recommend getting that and checking for any firmware upgrades.
Other then that there isn’t probably any easy way for you to prevent it (well except for the wired-only mode as you say - through lighting to jack and female jack to usb-c cables).