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the most annoying thing about the airpods pro for me is that a good percentage of the time (maybe 15%, give or take), only one of the actual airpods will connec

the most annoying thing about the airpods pro for me is that a good percentage of the time (maybe 15%, give or take), only one of the actual airpods will connect when I stick them in my ears. I got a buzzing a few months ago and swapped them out under the service program, hoping it would also fix the only-one-airpod-connecting issue, but, well, it didn't. (A large percentage of the time I realize that this is because something went wrong on the case side and the one that won't connect never got charged even though the other one did.) Despite that, I'm still upgrading to round 2 this morning. Hoping the new version of the chip plus the new case makes this connection/charging issue go away. Sigh. Apple does manage to always get my money, doesn't it. Though, I guess, to be fair, apart from those issues my first gen's have served me well for like 3 years and they're the only headphones I actually use 90% of the time. (Also, even more noise cancelling on the already good noise cancelling sounds good...maybe these can become my long-plane-trip headphones and let me retire the big sonys.)

FabHK 4y ago
Indeed. Both of my original AirPods Pro developed the buzzing/crackling issue, had them both exchanged under the program, and now one of them is creaking again. Also found the 1st gen noise cancellation not quite as good as with Bose (in ear as well as over ear). And now I'm here pressing reload in the browser so I can buy the 2nd gen...
- paultopia 4y ago
  Hah, glad I'm not alone in this. Proud of myself for not immediately buying the new ginormous watch tho
  - disantlor 4y ago
    i believe this happens when a stray hair gets into the driver
  - klinquist 4y ago
    I wish I could be proud of myself. So glad they finally make a watch for my mountaineering & diving lifestyle. Narrator: "He has never been diving our mountaineering."
paultopia 4y ago
(LOL, also, you can have them put a memoji on the case.)
gizmo 4y ago
I used the "how to connect a replacement airpod" steps (on both) to fix the issue where only one airpod would connect.
wombat-man 4y ago
Why wouldn't you try a different brand first?? I haven't used airpods yet because I tried a samsung pair first and they still work. I had an android phone when I got them. Now I have an iPhone. They work on whatever!
- j2bax 4y ago
  For me the AirPods Pro are one of my most loved and used pieces of tech in recent memory. Assume OP uses iPhone and there are a handful of unique features AirPods offer when paired with iPhone that I assume Samsung pods would not. Things like syncing across devices via iCloud account… spatial audio… IOS integrated noise canceling control. And for me the fit and sound is fantastic.
  - mrits 4y ago
    I disable all the touch functionality of the pods. Over the past years of owning them I've had to re-disable dozens of times. That is my only gripe.
- scarface74 4y ago
  Because a “different brand” don’t automatically pair to every device connected to my AppleID (7), don’t have an interface on every device to adjust settings, don’t show the battery percentages on every device individually for each side and the battery case and don’t automatically switch. BTW, AirPods “work everywhere” as standard Bluetooth headsets
  - wombat-man 4y ago
    Well OP is talking about how his airpods weren't working, yet they they're getting another pair which seems sorta odd. The battery percentage thing does seem appealing, idk I guess I just charge mine often enough it hasn't really been an issue. Auto switching does sound good though, maybe someday I'll try airpods.
    - samatman 4y ago
elondaits 4y ago
I had the issue where sometimes only one was charged. I noticed that sometimes the LED didn't blink when inserting one of them... and fidgeting with it, helped, but sometimes switching the position of the case from vertical to horizontal would make it disconnect (as reported by the charge widget on my iPhone). (I tried resetting them, re-pairing, etc. and it didn't help) I took it to the Apple store, showed the guy the issue, and he claimed it was most likely a firmware issue and not the case. He said the Airpod disappearing from the charge widget was the firmware misreporting, and not a bad/loosy connection. I had my doubts and was sure that it was a physical issue with the case... but he replaced the single airpod (he updated the new one's firmware first) and the issues went away.
- samatman 4y ago
  This is a problem I've fixed with a Q-tip more than once. that contact is finicky and it doesn't take much lint to break it. Airpods have also just needed rebooting from time to time, in my experience. Not daily, weekly perhaps. Not my favorite thing about them.
  - saganus 4y ago
    Never heard about being able to reboot the airpods. How do you do that?
    - samatman 4y ago
      There's a button on the case, flip the case open and press it for a long time (ten seconds I think).
  - elondaits 4y ago
    I tried cleaning the AirPods and case with a q-tip with rubbing alcohol, several times... and they were new (1 month of use) and visibly clean.
mcintyre1994 4y ago
I get this a lot with my Powerbeats Pro which have the H1 chip too, so it could be an issue with that chip?

FabHK 4y ago

Indeed. Both of my original AirPods Pro developed the buzzing/crackling issue, had them both exchanged under the program, and now one of them is creaking again. Also found the 1st gen noise cancellation not quite as good as with Bose (in ear as well as over ear). And now I'm here pressing reload in the browser so I can buy the 2nd gen...

paultopia 4y ago
Hah, glad I'm not alone in this. Proud of myself for not immediately buying the new ginormous watch tho
- disantlor 4y ago
  i believe this happens when a stray hair gets into the driver
- klinquist 4y ago
  I wish I could be proud of myself. So glad they finally make a watch for my mountaineering & diving lifestyle. Narrator: "He has never been diving our mountaineering."

paultopia 4y ago

(LOL, also, you can have them put a memoji on the case.)

gizmo 4y ago

I used the "how to connect a replacement airpod" steps (on both) to fix the issue where only one airpod would connect.

wombat-man 4y ago

Why wouldn't you try a different brand first?? I haven't used airpods yet because I tried a samsung pair first and they still work. I had an android phone when I got them. Now I have an iPhone. They work on whatever!

j2bax 4y ago
For me the AirPods Pro are one of my most loved and used pieces of tech in recent memory. Assume OP uses iPhone and there are a handful of unique features AirPods offer when paired with iPhone that I assume Samsung pods would not. Things like syncing across devices via iCloud account… spatial audio… IOS integrated noise canceling control. And for me the fit and sound is fantastic.
- mrits 4y ago
  I disable all the touch functionality of the pods. Over the past years of owning them I've had to re-disable dozens of times. That is my only gripe.
scarface74 4y ago
Because a “different brand” don’t automatically pair to every device connected to my AppleID (7), don’t have an interface on every device to adjust settings, don’t show the battery percentages on every device individually for each side and the battery case and don’t automatically switch. BTW, AirPods “work everywhere” as standard Bluetooth headsets
- wombat-man 4y ago
  Well OP is talking about how his airpods weren't working, yet they they're getting another pair which seems sorta odd. The battery percentage thing does seem appealing, idk I guess I just charge mine often enough it hasn't really been an issue. Auto switching does sound good though, maybe someday I'll try airpods.
  - samatman 4y ago

elondaits 4y ago

I had the issue where sometimes only one was charged. I noticed that sometimes the LED didn't blink when inserting one of them... and fidgeting with it, helped, but sometimes switching the position of the case from vertical to horizontal would make it disconnect (as reported by the charge widget on my iPhone). (I tried resetting them, re-pairing, etc. and it didn't help) I took it to the Apple store, showed the guy the issue, and he claimed it was most likely a firmware issue and not the case. He said the Airpod disappearing from the charge widget was the firmware misreporting, and not a bad/loosy connection. I had my doubts and was sure that it was a physical issue with the case... but he replaced the single airpod (he updated the new one's firmware first) and the issues went away.

samatman 4y ago
This is a problem I've fixed with a Q-tip more than once. that contact is finicky and it doesn't take much lint to break it. Airpods have also just needed rebooting from time to time, in my experience. Not daily, weekly perhaps. Not my favorite thing about them.
- saganus 4y ago
  Never heard about being able to reboot the airpods. How do you do that?
  - samatman 4y ago
    There's a button on the case, flip the case open and press it for a long time (ten seconds I think).
- elondaits 4y ago
  I tried cleaning the AirPods and case with a q-tip with rubbing alcohol, several times... and they were new (1 month of use) and visibly clean.

mcintyre1994 4y ago

I get this a lot with my Powerbeats Pro which have the H1 chip too, so it could be an issue with that chip?