All Devices AirPods don't connect automatically

[zorinlynx]

When I first acquired my AirPods a few years ago, they would automatically connect to the last device I used them with, and the audio would be transferred to them automatically. However, at some point this stopped, and now I have to go into control center and set the audio destination to be the AirPods.

Was this a change in iOS 13? Does anyone's AirPods still connect and transfer the audio automatically? I'm wondering why this may have stopped, and if there's a way to enable it again.

 

[itsmilo]

that never worked for me to be honest. I always have to manually switch between my iPad and iPhone. It always remembers the wrong one

 

[papbot]

I use mine exclusively, except for one or two instances, with my Apple Watch, and several times a day. If I don’t bring up control center on the watch to select them the connection fails at least 50% of the time. It was this way before 13 but got considerably worse after, so now I make certain to select them first in control center before starting any audio.

 

[minimo3]

They used to automatically switch? They’ve never done so for me, I’ve always had to do it manually. Not sure what the W1 chip buys over regular Bluetooth

 

[ActionableMango]

When I first acquired my AirPods a few years ago, they would automatically connect to the last device I used them with, and the audio would be transferred to them automatically. However, at some point this stopped, and now I have to go into control center and set the audio destination to be the AirPods.

Was this a change in iOS 13? Does anyone's AirPods still connect and transfer the audio automatically? I'm wondering why this may have stopped, and if there's a way to enable it again.

Your initial behavior has always been the case for me, and still is with iOS 13.

That being said, in about 1 year of ownership there were a couple of times that I had connection glitches, which were fixed by "forgetting" the AirPods in all* Apple devices and then re-pairing them with the case button. So you might give that a try.

* It is important to do this in all of them, or else the old corrupted pairing can "helpfully" migrate back to other Apple devices on their own.

 

[akash.nu]

From time to time my AirPods disconnects from my phone and refuses to reconnect unless I put them back in the case for a minute and then bring out again.

 

[papbot]

From time to time my AirPods disconnects from my phone and refuses to reconnect unless I put them back in the case for a minute and then bring out again.

That’s what works for me as well. But first I do have pull up control center, on my watch, and use the Air Play icon to select the Air Pods or the connection fails at least half the time. I only use the pods with my watch a couple times every day but still need to do this Each time. And every now and then that doesn’t work and back in the charge case they go.

 

[chris4565]

Luckily for me my AirPods connect automatically to the last device I used.

What I hope very much for the future is that Apple adds a feature where the AirPods automatically connect to the nearest device/the device you are using right now. I guess there's a lot of fine tuning involved in order not to get a lot of false positives but I guess with Apple's ultra wideband tech and some smart software implementation that should work.

 

[FlyingDutch]

When I first acquired my AirPods a few years ago, they would automatically connect to the last device I used them with, and the audio would be transferred to them automatically. However, at some point this stopped, and now I have to go into control center and set the audio destination to be the AirPods.

Was this a change in iOS 13? Does anyone's AirPods still connect and transfer the audio automatically? I'm wondering why this may have stopped, and if there's a way to enable it again.

I’m using AirPods (Pro model now) and beats headphones on many devices (MBP, iPad Pro and iPhone) and fortunately everything works as expected.
I had some minor glitches , AirPods related mostly, but every time it just needs to put them in the case to reset everything.