Hearing a Mysterious Chime From Your AirPods Pro Case? It's a Feature

[Analog Kid]

Is it a "chime" or is it a series of tones? I hear my Airpods go through a sequence of tones when I put them in the case. There's a chime it makes when it's on the charger, but I turned that off.

Learning I'm not sure what the word "chime" really means...

 

[geminicon]

I'd describe it as a more electronic sound similar to a noise a tamagotchi or some other small electronic toy would make.

 

[dominiongamma]

Why isn't it smart enough to know that 2 AM is probably not a good time for this test.

Should have the ability to disable it honestly

 

[XboxEvolved]

Somewhat about my 4 ANCs? Sometimes they chirp sometimes they don’t.

 

[Avenged110]

Some sounds can be disabled by connecting the AirPods to an Apple device, going to Settings, tapping on the AirPods icon, and turning off Enable Charging Case Sounds.

That option is always grayed out on all my devices. Oddly, though thankfully, even though the toggle is locked in the 'enabled' position, the feature seems to be disabled.

 

[FontGeek]

For the half a second of a few quiet tones?

For me, they’d regularly chime in 15 minute increments after I placed them on the charger. It woke me up enough times to make me rethink charging them overnight.

 

[jbattan]

Good to know! I thought I was going crazy! I searched high and low around my office trying to figure out where the sound was coming from.

 

[chandler55]

would it have killed them to give us a popup abotu this. i was going mad

 

[jarman92]

Didn’t knew it was a mystery. I like it as I know it’s charging, that was a pain with my beats buds and AirPods Pro original. I had few occasions when I thought it was charging but didn’t, especially in rental cars.

The article is talking about an entirely different sound.

 

[LuissCM]

I use my AirPods Pro like only once a week and work on cyber security. I've been wondering until now where that soft chime was coming from man, the conspiracy theoriesI had in my head...

 

[blucar1]

Legit thought I was hearing things...turns out I was

 

[anakinfan8]

Oh THAT'S what that was?! It sounded like a friggin Tamagotchi that I thought was hiding in my desk drawer

 

[Techwatcher]

Well it’s stupid and annoying

 

[alchemicapper]

Umm… so something has to listen to the speaker.
That means that the microphone is activated (briefly) at unpredictable times when the AirPods are in the case.
This cannot be disabled? 🤔

 

[MakaniKai]

I thought my brother hid a noise maker under my nightstand…

 

[Rainshadow]

I've been quite curious about this actually. I learned quickly not to leave them on my nightstand charger at night.

This ^^

I left my AirPods on there and my wife couldn’t sleep all night cause of some noise. Then I heard it in the morning and I was just blown away they were doing that. I figured at first it would just notify me they were done or something… nope. Constant… incessant… ding… over and over. Even after charged.

Glad it can be turned off. Ridiculous “feature”.

 

[budselectjr]

Whoever came up with this feature should be let go last week and it’s needs to be removed immediately.

 

[Hank001]

An entire article about a sound....and then the journalist forgot to post...the sound. Amazing.

 

[DailySlow]

Whoa. I'd be happy to hear these things make a noise. My 2 Pro pods (backup for real hearing aids Black Friday special) are useless for me since I cannot get my phone to ring through the pods. Padcasts, vids, etc. audio works ok. A nice little chime would be better than nothing.

 

[awisdom]

More stupid crap from Apple. How does this make sense?

 

[RdWing]

It's like a Tri-tone beep. I have been trying to track it down for months. Glad to know, mystery solved.

 

[svish]

There should be an option to turn it off, if required. Surprised that this is not on the new AirPods 4.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I'd describe it as a more electronic sound similar to a noise a tamagotchi or some other small electronic toy would make.

Thanks grandad 😉

 

[SoldOnApple]

This was driving me crazy.

 

[Moukee]

What the hell Apple?

So that's what that annoying quick triple-beep at different frequencies is.

How do you not clearly indicate that such a "feature" is enabled and why can't it be disabled?