Hi all.
So I've noticed, mostly by being on one floor while the Airpods are on another and having my phone not speak, that when I take my Airpods out of my ears and put them down somewhere, they haven't actually disconnected. Usually I tap the screen to start the phone unlocking to check and see if I have speech, but sometimes I forget.
Is there a way to make sure they've definitely turned off/disconnected, other than putting them back in the case? I could do that I guess, but then they'd constantly be charging when they didn't need to. I've done the basic maintenance stuff like cleaning them and all, and it still happens. If anybody has any tips, I'd really
appreciate them.
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Make sure the skin sensor isn’t covered.
The AirPods have a skin sensor, which detects when they’re in your ears.
Depending on what surface your AirPods are sitting on, the sensor could trigger when they’re not in your ears.
The easiest solution is to make sure the eartips aren’t facing towards the table/whatever surface you put them on; Have your AirPods eartips facing the sky/ceiling.
Another option would be to create a shortcut that you could assign to a voiceover gesture which sets your playback destination to your iPhone.
This would mean that if you woke your phone up, got no speech, you could activate the gesture and hopefully get speech back relatively quickly.
Another thing you want to keep in mind is that AirPods two (non-pro), AirPods Pro first generation, and AirPods 4 (not third GEN) have an optical sensor, which is extra prone to false triggers.
With those, you can’t even cover them with anything, otherwise the audio route will change to the AirPods.
For some odd weird reason only known to Apple, the AirPods three actually have a skin sensor, which eliminates a lot of the problems found with the optical sensor used in older models, And the newest model, the AirPods 4. Why they went back to The optical sensor for both generations of the AirPods 4, I have no clue.
If you want to be absolutely…
If you want to be absolutely sure they're off, just ask Siri to turn off Bluetooth.
No need to fiddle with shortcuts, and no need to make things more complicated than they have to be.
I'd suggest just putting…
I'd suggest just putting them back in their case.
Otherwise, it's worth perhaps giving them a bit of a clean. There are guides online for that.
Finally, if you really need to cut the connection, use siri to turn off bluetooth, but that's a bit of a hard core solution.
As I say, I always put mine back in their case as my reasoning is, my case is easier to find/harder to lose. I dropped a bud the other day and had to use find my to get them to play a sound. it was very hard to locate, not sure why but the tone they use doesn't seem good for directional, it's just loud, so I spent the afternoon crawling around on the floor... Nice.