Fedora 43: Spam Request to Access Macbook Pro Microphone

Fedora 43 was released in October 28 and my only gripe against this update is their inclusion of ROAP, some feature to connect to Apple devices. It was honestly annoying because my microphone would stop working once the video platform demands if I wish to connect to someone’s Macbook nearby.

Within my audio settings in the quick access menu on the top right of GNOME Desktop shows various Apple devices that can be used for audio output:

It is not clear to me if Fedora purposely included this Pipewire module or it came packaged in the Pipewire version they selected. Regardless, it’s plain annoying. While not the same, others appear to have encountered the same issues. Following another approach from Reddit, I at least have gotten their weird Microphone request prompts. Though I can still Apple devices as potential audio outputs, I can live with Apple polluting my audio settings. The solution is to delete the offending package pipewire-config-roap