I have AirPods and I love them but I don’t love what a hassle it is to switch my phone to send audio output to the AirPods. I have my AirPods synced with multiple devices such as my Mac, so it doesn't know which one to connect to.
What I do now is:
- Swipe up from the bottom edge to raise the control center.
- Force press the wave icon in the top right of the audio playback control
- Tap the audio out control button on the right to raise a list of output devices.
- Select the AirPods from that list.
This is too hard. There must be a simpler way. Is there?
For instance, can I configure a single tap control center button to switch to airpods? Tell Siri to do it with a properly phrased command?
Best Answer
Just because one device sleeps does not make the airpods sync with another device. In such a case nothing happens and you have to manually connect on the device of your choice. I also struggle with this. My devices are not equal and I do different things on my iPhone, iPad, Macbook and iMac. What would be perfect, as mentioned, is a Siri integration. But that would mean that the Airpods understand Siri, which they don't. Thanks for the tip to go via the media control, far less hassle but not ideal.