I use Bluetooth headphones, but almost never use or bother to set up the associated app. So hopefully Bluetooth pairing alone isn’t enough. Looks a lot of these details are collected through a companion app.
Yes me too. I really never install such apps, because they are always bad in many ways. I just wanna a bluethoot speaker or headphone. I really don't care for the mostly useless fancy software things. And most of the times, it's even possible to use these things also with a 3.5mm jack
Sometimes these apps are necessary though. For instance you can only turn the Google Assistant button off on Sony headphones in their app, there's an additional (better!) noise reduction mode only available through the app, firmware updates are through the app, etc. (I get the firmware updates because I'm vaguely hoping that one day they will fix the hilariously annoying flaw that they turning them on always activates noise cancellation.)
When I got my bose headphones they would not connect as bluetooth headphones until I installed the app. After that they would but I still had to sign up and accept location access the first time.
I see a number of people saying this but I was able to pair mine without an app. Installing the app didn’t require location access.
There’s also several people saying their experience was like mine.
It’s pretty obvious different people are getting two distinctly different experiences with the company. It’s not a spectrum, just one or the other. That is strange and I wonder was the cause of that is.
I think I can answer this. My mum got the Bose QC 35 and out of the box they worked fine without the app. I got the exact same thing about a few months later and after turning it on it just repeated some audio telling me to connect to the app which did not happen on the exact same product my mum had. Perhaps mine came with a newer firmware version OOTB.
As for location, android requires it for an app to scan for bluetooth devices (Not required if you connect via android settings). Maybe you use iOS?
