Audio cutting out on M5 Pro MacBook Pro using AirPods Pro 2

[Justinwhitlock528]

I have a problem that I have been dealing with for the last 2 weeks. I have an M5 Pro MacBook Pro that I got the week of launch and recently my AirPods Pro 2 have been cutting in and out on my Mac only. It is not consistent, so I don't know what could be causing it. It started with Apple music, and I had to put my airpods in their case and then connect them again, but now it also does it for other audio now too. I have reset my AirPods to factory defaults, and it is still giving me this issue. I am running the latest version of Tahoe. Sometimes it takes a while for them to start cutting out, and sometimes they start cutting out a lot sooner. It is not an issue on my iPad or iPhone. Just my Mac. Thanks for the help.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Does this behavior persist if your iPhone and iPad (or anything else that may have been paired with the APP2 in the past) are turned off?

 

[benholt]

Sounds like the Tahoe HFP/A2DP transition bug. Open Audio MIDI Setup and check the AirPods' format right when the cutout starts — bet they're stuck in 'Headset' (16/24kHz mono) instead of 'AirPods' (44.1k stereo). What's happening: some app briefly asked for the mic (Loom, Zoom, FaceTime, or a Safari tab that had once requested it), bluetoothd switched the codec to HFP, then never switched back to A2DP. Quickest non-reset fix is sudo killall coreaudiod in Terminal — daemon respawns and renegotiates without you having to unpair.

 

[Justinwhitlock528]

Does this behavior persist if your iPhone and iPad (or anything else that may have been paired with the APP2 in the past) are turned off?

I turned off everything, and that stopped the audio from cutting out. Is there a way to prevent this from happening again because I don't want to have to shut down my iPad and iPhone every time I use my AirPods with my Mac. It also does this on golden gate too.

 

[Justinwhitlock528]

Sounds like the Tahoe HFP/A2DP transition bug. Open Audio MIDI Setup and check the AirPods' format right when the cutout starts — bet they're stuck in 'Headset' (16/24kHz mono) instead of 'AirPods' (44.1k stereo). What's happening: some app briefly asked for the mic (Loom, Zoom, FaceTime, or a Safari tab that had once requested it), bluetoothd switched the codec to HFP, then never switched back to A2DP. Quickest non-reset fix is sudo killall coreaudiod in Terminal — daemon respawns and renegotiates without you having to unpair.

They are saying 48 kHz

 

[BrianBaughn]

I turned off everything, and that stopped the audio from cutting out. Is there a way to prevent this from happening again because I don't want to have to shut down my iPad and iPhone every time I use my AirPods with my Mac. It also does this on golden gate too.

In the iOS or iPadOS Bluetooth settings you can change the APP2's "Connect to This iPhone" settings from "Automatically" to "When Last Connected to This iPhone/iPad".

I do NOT know what the negatives are with that setting.