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How to Use Precision Finding to Locate AirPods Pro 2 With Your iPhone
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well how long after you got your airpods did it show up on Find My or even update its firmware? I got mine 3 days ago 9/26 and I'm writing this on 9/29. Airpods brand new come with 5A374 firmware and 5A377 is the first update. Obviously no idea of when to update as you simply charge your airpods and have your phone nearby. But of course I have no idea if that affects the airpods not showing on Find My and my phone is still on the latest IOS 15 as I'm not ready for 16 just yet. Honestly maybe another week and then going to the store if they have anything else to do or just use my Applecare sooner if it is really the Airpods that are malfunctioned.
FWIW - I decided to be too lazy to forget/reset/re-add and just tried doing step 2 and it worked. To recap, I only had to do step 2... disable and re-enable Find My on my iPhone. After doing that, my Airpods Pro 2 magically appeared correctly in the Find My app.
Hey apparently this worked but I did something else. So the method you posted of all the steps I did multiple times with no luck and it got frustrating. After debating, I finally decided to upgrade my iPhone to IOS 16 which I of course knew of some issues especially battery usage. Obviously they'll fix it down the line but upgrading and then turning off and on Find My, the airpods were able to show. Now I think its clear IOS 16 was probably what did it because for the newer airpods, they had certain features like the sound of the case beeping which was a new IOS 16 feature.
I wasn’t planning on getting the AirPods Pro 2, since my first Gen Pros are still doing really well.
Then, for the first time since launch day, I lost the case while wearing the buds. The lack of Find My for the case alone was a real problem. I ended up finding it after nearly strip-searching my car, but it definitely had me thinking of upgrading!
Then, for the first time since launch day, I lost the case while wearing the buds. The lack of Find My for the case alone was a real problem. I ended up finding it after nearly strip-searching my car, but it definitely had me thinking of upgrading!
Hey nice to hear! Yeah it was your post in the first place that really got me into fixing this. You and I had the same problems but I can't believe the IOS was the solution. So mainly some graphics changes to the lockscreen and other things looking new but as for battery as long as you don't do much the battery will last but heavy usage it drops a little more so turn on battery saver. But its apple so they'll release more updates to fix stuff. Glad my pods show and now can play the sound.
Thanks. With the update from 15.6 to 15.7, which I did the day before 16.0 dropped, my 13 pro Max battery decreased slightly with use and standby. So, I just don't want to go to iOS 16.x yet, not until 16.1x or later, depending on user reports.
For the first 6 days on 15.7 my Avg "screen off" time tripled from 3-4 hours to 9-11 hours of screen off time, with a consistent 5-6 hours of screen on time. I was continuously hitting below 20% after 16 hours off the charger, instead of 30-40% remaining. Then on day 7 I reset network settings, and after that my "screen off" time dropped back to 3-5 hours, with 4-5 hours of screen on, and I used only about 50% of my battery each day.
Today I'll see how my battery does. But I just won't take my AirPods Pro 2 out of the house until I can use Find My with them. They sound better than the APP 1 so I'll use them with my MacBook at home until then.
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Having similar strange issues with my AirPods Pro 2nd Gen £250. I can go on the 'find my app' on my iPhone and Watch it shows the location no problem but if I go on the same app on my iPad, iPod touch, MacBook Pro & even signing into iCloud.com they don't show up!!! Basically if I lose my phone and AirPods then I have no way of tracking them.
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this feature is VERY UNRELIABLE.
it fails a lot. and requires me to "forget device" and re pair them to get it to work.
Lost them for a week. They were in the same room. Luckily my human eyes saw them. I called Apple to troubleshoot. They claim that interference makes the findmy feature fail.
They also specifically told me that the Pro Gen 2 case was not as good as a real Airtag.