v0.41.0 — Apple Continuity is a feature, not a patch

Highlights

🎧 AirPods Continuity handoff now works while EQ is enabled. Switch between Mac and iPhone mid-playback the same way you would with any other app — no quitting iQualize, no manual output rerouting, no compromise.

This is a first: every other system-audio EQ that wraps macOS's output device runs into the same wall (Background Music, eqMac — same open, unresolved complaint). iQualize doesn't have it anymore.

Root cause: a process that owns both an active Core Audio tap and a render stream on the same output device gets treated by macOS as non-preemptible infrastructure rather than a normal media app — silently blocking Continuity's handoff. iQualize now splits its audio capture into a separate helper process, so to macOS it looks like any other media app (Spotify, Music) — freely preemptible, exactly as it should be. Full investigation, dead ends, and the isolating experiment that found this are documented in CONTINUITY.md.

Full details in the CHANGELOG (0.40.1 → 0.41.0).

Install

1. Download iQualize-0.41.0.dmg below and open it
2. Drag iQualize to the Applications folder
3. Important: iQualize isn't notarized with Apple, so on first launch macOS Gatekeeper blocks it. Run this one-liner in Terminal, then open iQualize normally:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/iQualize.app
   

Requires macOS 14.2+ and System Audio Recording permission.