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can you connect wireless headphones other than airpods to apple watch?
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Yes any Bluetooth headphones will connect just fo to settings
How does the phone-to-watch handoff work for non-Apple bluetooth headphones?
Would the headphones, if paired with both devices, remain active with the iPhone until the phone was out of range and the headphones disconnected? Or does Apple have some smarts built in to allow the iPhone to elegantly disconnect if the watch starts audio playback?
Would the headphones, if paired with both devices, remain active with the iPhone until the phone was out of range and the headphones disconnected? Or does Apple have some smarts built in to allow the iPhone to elegantly disconnect if the watch starts audio playback?
I had some Bose Soundsports that I connected to my Apple Watch. They worked fine but not as seamless when I try to connect.
I have cheap Bluetooth headphones. At one point they were paired to both (they would announce "pairing... connected" and a couple of seconds later "secondary pairing... connected"), so I thought they just played whatever sound is sent to them from either source. But this morning while running they were only playing the phone audio and I heard the watch announcements coming straight from the watch speaker. I did have to erase and re-pair the watch to my new phone, so bluetooth may have reset and I may have to re-pair the headphones to the watch. I'll try it again on my next run.
I have JBL Bluetooth headphones and it works correctly.
As for re-pairing, I had to remove pairing from iPhone and then to pair headphones with Apple Watch.
If you use iphone, apple watch , macbook etc with headphones then headphones with the W1/H1 chip work really well when switching devices.
I have a set of Beats x in-ears mainly due to the W1 chip and also like that they charge with a lightning cable so I don't need to take a micro usb cable as well as my iphone cable.
I have a set of Beats x in-ears mainly due to the W1 chip and also like that they charge with a lightning cable so I don't need to take a micro usb cable as well as my iphone cable.