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Find My cannot find my AirPods Pro 2

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Aleksid1

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Does Find My work with your AirPods Pro 2?

I thought I lost my AirPods Pro 2 during recent taxi ride. Find My showed the last GPS coordinates of the AirPods 30 miles from my house. The function of playing sound from the charging case did not work.
I had already said goodbye to my AirPods. But the next day I accidentally found them in the pocket of a fabric suitcase. It turns out that Find My could not detect the AirPods Pro 2 in the charging case, which was in the same room as me, being fully charged.

Maybe I do not understand how Find My is supposed to work?

I have an iPhone SE 2022.
 
I have had Find My lose the ability to find my APP2 as well. Clicking the button to have them make a sound would just spin forever trying to connect. I ended up forgetting them in my bluetooth settings and then doing a factory reset. When it connected again, it worked as expected.
 
jared52 said:
I have had Find My lose the ability to find my APP2 as well. Clicking the button to have them make a sound would just spin forever trying to connect. I ended up forgetting them in my bluetooth settings and then doing a factory reset. When it connected again, it worked as expected.
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Thanks for your reply. I just checked again - Find My doesn't work yet for my AirPods Pro 2.

I reconnected AirPods to my iPhone. Find My cannot produce the sound. But when I opened the case, AirPods started to generate a sound. So it seems to be useless when earphones are being inside the lost case.
 
I just opened my AirPods Pro 2 case and it said "Not your AirPods Pro". Looks like some update has broken something. Had to re-pair.

While they were in this state, FindMy couldn't find them either.
 
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Do you have more than one device and do they all use the same Apple ID to login?
 
Yes, I use one Apple ID for all my devices.

After I re-paired the AirPods Pro 2 with my iPhone (iOS 18.1), I now get panicked messages every day from Find My telling me that I've left my AirPods in a different location. I just left my AirPods at home when I went to work. I don't know how to fix it.
 
Aleksid1 said:
Yes, I use one Apple ID for all my devices.

After I re-paired the AirPods Pro 2 with my iPhone (iOS 18.1), I now get panicked messages every day from Find My telling me that I've left my AirPods in a different location. I just left my AirPods at home when I went to work. I don't know how to fix it.
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You need to set Trusted Locations. Open Find My on your iPhone, go to Devices, then your AirPods, tap "notify when left behind" and there should be an option there to set Trusted Locations.
 
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Night Spring said:
You need to set Trusted Locations. Open Find My on your iPhone, go to Devices, then your AirPods, tap "notify when left behind" and there should be an option there to set Trusted Locations.
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Thanks, I did that. Should I do the same for all the places I travel to (hotels)? Or turn it off altogether?

Also sometimes I hear a strange quiet "ding" sound from the AirPods Pro 2 case (once or twice) when I put the AirPods back in the case. Even if it's fully charged. Never happened before.
 
Aleksid1 said:
Thanks, I did that. Should I do the same for all the places I travel to (hotels)? Or turn it off altogether?
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Up to you. The feature is there for your convenience/peace of mind. Use it however makes the most sense to you.

Aleksid1 said:
Also sometimes I hear a strange quiet "ding" sound from the AirPods Pro 2 case (once or twice) when I put the AirPods back in the case. Even if it's fully charged. Never happened before.
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Sorry, can't help with this. I can't hear those dinging sounds because of my hearing loss, so I don't know anything about them. My AirPods could be dinging or not when I put them in the case, I haven't any idea.
 
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