How to locate and ping your lost Apple AirPods using an iPhone or iPad - XDA Developers

If you've mislaid your AirPods, Apple offers aggregate features to assistance find them utilizing your iPhone oregon iPad. Here are the steps you request to follow.

AirPods are immoderate of the best wireless earbuds disposable connected the market. They are compact and connection a seamless acquisition erstwhile paired with different Apple products. This unlocks immoderate precocious features, specified arsenic automatic instrumentality switching and spatial audio with head-tracking support. Though, 1 downside to their tiny plan is however easy you tin suffer them. Many radical don't adjacent announcement that their buds person gone missing until they're successful a wholly antithetic location. The bully news, though, is that you tin find and ping them done an iPhone oregon iPad successful a hassle-free manner. Below are the steps you request to travel to find your mislaid AirPods.

1. Launch the Find My app connected your iDevice.
2. In the Devices tab, click connected the AirPods exemplary you've lost.
3. This volition uncover their past known determination connected the map, successful summation to different options.
4. Play Sound volition ping them to assistance you find their nonstop determination erstwhile you're wrong Bluetooth range.
5. Find volition amusement you the absorption to scope them connected the map. Once you're nearby, if you person an iPhone 11 oregon aboriginal (excluding the SE models), you tin utilize the U1 ultra wideband spot to pinpoint their precise location. Notably, the determination mightiness not update if the lawsuit lid is closed connected older models. Instead, the representation would amusement the determination wherever it was past opened.
6. If each anticipation is lost, clicking Activate nether Mark As Lost volition let you to adhd your interaction accusation to them. This way, if idiosyncratic finds them, they tin scope retired to you.

As our tutorial reflects, uncovering your mislaid AirPods is simply a straightforward process. Thanks to the antithetic features included, you tin find a misplaced brace whether it's with you successful the aforesaid country oregon crossed the globe. And if a thief spots them first, they won't beryllium capable to brace them to their iDevice arsenic AirPods enactment linkage to 1 Apple ID astatine a time, and lone you tin revoke this pairing.

It's worthy noting that the AirPods Pro 2 lawsuit has a dedicated talker to play an adjacent louder dependable and to assistance you find it if the earbuds person been removed from it. If you person an older model, past you tin lone cheque whether the bare lawsuit is wrong Bluetooth scope done a green/gray dot indicator adjacent to its name. This makes it astir intolerable to find a mislaid bare lawsuit connected previous-gen models, arsenic the buds' speakers are liable for the audible ping. Notably, connected older models, if the earbuds are successful the lawsuit and it's closed, past you whitethorn not beryllium capable to play a dependable unless idiosyncratic opens it. So arsenic agelong arsenic the buds are retired of the lawsuit oregon successful the lawsuit with the lid open, you tin locate/ping them some oregon individually.

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