I was watching a video on my iPad Pro and I wanted a richer, louder sound, so I used Control Center to switch it to the HomePod mini sitting right next to it. That worked great. After a bit, I wanted to change rooms, so again using Control Center I switched the audio output to the iPad. I hit play on my video and while the video advanced, I couldn\u2019t hear anything. After going in and out of Control Center a few times, suddenly I got a dropdown notice telling me that the charge level of my left AirPod Pro was down to 15%.<\/p>\n
First of all, I wasn\u2019t trying to connect to my AirPods Pro. Second of all, while I did take them on an hour-long walk listening to podcasts this morning, the case charged that whole time, and they were promptly put back into the case 3 hours before to charge. Thirdly, the AirPods Pro were sitting in that case in my purse 3 rooms away from me. To recap: I wasn\u2019t talking to them, they should have been charged, there was no reason for them to start talking to me at all, and I couldn\u2019t hear my video.<\/p>\n
But wait, it gets better. As I was surrounded by fiddliness, Steve said he\u2019d like to borrow my AirPods because he was going through the Apple Health Studies and the hearing one requires AirPods. I gave them my misbehaving headphones and for the life of him, he couldn\u2019t get them to pair to his phone. I checked my iPhone and then my iPad to see if either were connected to my AirPods but they weren\u2019t. Those darn AirPods had connected to my Mac!<\/p>\n
I disconnected, and then \u2026 wait for it \u2026 the audio on the iPad started to work again.<\/p>\n
Everything is Fiddly!<\/p>\n
Addendum – two hours later I went to go for a walk with my headphones and I started hearing a session from the CSUN AT conference, but it wasn’t’ playing on my iPhone. I checked and it wasn’t playing from my Mac either. I was sure<\/em> it couldn’t be my iPad because it was closed so I knew it had to be asleep. But I was wrong. My sleeping iPad had taken over my AirPods!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was watching a video on my iPad Pro and I wanted a richer, louder sound, so I used Control Center to switch it to the HomePod mini sitting right next to it. That worked great. After a bit, I wanted to change rooms, so again using Control Center I switched the audio output to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[1201,3622,43,2685,389,127,70,51],"class_list":["post-23180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-airpods","tag-airpods-pro","tag-audio","tag-everything-is-fiddly","tag-headphones","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-mac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Allison-Memoji-Top-of-Head-Blown-Off.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23203,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions\/23203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}