My AirPods Pro have the latest firmware. For some crazy reason, when the buds are still in its case, it will randomly connect (momentarily) to my iPhone and then disconnect again. In fact, it will do this to whatever Apple device is nearby (my iPad Pro, my M1 Mac Mini, etc.). It's super annoying because when it does this, it will a) stop the audio from playing on the device because it's redirecting to my AirPods (that are still in the case!) and b) it quickly disconnects from the device, but it pauses whatever I was playing at the time in doing so.
I've seen other people post about this problem on this forum, but no one has come up with a solution. I've tried "forgetting" the AirPods and reconnecting them and it still happens. Again, this is intermittent and random, but happens quite frequently.
YES! Apple this is insane. Im tryna listen to my car radio and these stupid airpods keep automatically connecting while in case , silencing my car radio! now i ushaully just leave my airpods in my room and use my cheap cvs wireless headphones. I in no way see one feature of those airpods that makes it worth cutting out my radio while driving. ill just keep buyin 35$ cvs airpods that do same stuff but stay off my car radio!
This has been happening to me for awhile and it's only getting more and more frustrating. Especially annoying when I'm in a video call meeting and the audio input and output will randomly connect to my airpods while I'm speaking, so I suddenly appear muted to everyone else on the call -_-
I am also having this issue (* along with a seemingly related issue). I bought the AirPods Pro when they first came out and experienced relatively few issues of this kind. However, a few months ago I got another pair of AirPods Pro to tag-team the workday, switching between the pairs when batteries drain on the pair I am using.
While the majority of the time the tag-team approach works, I figured my atypical use-case incited the issue described by this thread as I began to experience it on occasion. Over time, it seems like the issue has become more frequent, perhaps with the current firmware. It is harder to find more technical solutions for issues concerning AirPods dual-wielders like myself and it seems as though the Apple ecosystem is generally expecting users to have single pair associated with their account, not really expecting to juggle between two.
For the most part, my AirPods Pro are connected to my 2019 MacBook Pro but I certainly switch to my iPhone or iPad as needed, and I have had this issue across each of these host devices. The media I am listening to or watching would seemingly-randomly pause or sometimes (in the case of video) continue without producing any audio. When this occurs, I have caught the sound output settings in the menu bar displaying that it has briefly connected to the other pair in their case before disconnected (usually causing the pause to initiate).
(*) Other times, however, it does not look like the other device has connected. If I am watching a video in Safari, the whole tab seems to lock up in these cases. This makes me wonder if it is some deeper Core Audio or Bluetooth controller issue.
The issues occur enough these days that I was able to capture logs from Console.app streams as the issue occurs. There were a few points of interest worth following up on but have not had the time to investigate further.
In general, I wish Apple devices had finer-grain audio routing rules. I had to remove the Bluetooth pairing with my car since merely connecting to a newly detected device implies automatic audio rerouting to that device, when it is not always desired.
Just chiming in to say I am experiencing the same issue with my AirPods Pro and MacBook Pro. Tried the usual suggestions, just getting very frustrated with how often it seems to be happening now - and disabling Bluetooth isn't an option as I use wireless keyboard + trackpad.
I noticed that this started happening since i have deactivated "Automatic Ear Detection" in Airpods settings on the iPhone. Perhaps if I activate it again, it will not happen anymore as someone suggested above, so if you guys are having this issue, maybe you can try this temporary solution until a further fix by Apple.
We understand that your AirPods Pro will randomly connect to your iPhone and then disconnect. Unpairing and repairing the AirPods is a good first step to try. We would suggest taking a look at these articles and making sure that the AirPods and case are clean. If they are dirty, it is possible that they are making intermittent connection when in the case.
While in their case they would randomly reconnect to my Macbook and "steal" the output audio for a few seconds and then disconnect.. this happens most days several times a day, my only solution is to disable Bluetooth on the Mac :/
I have same problem. It is very annoying when you are speaking on important Zoom meetings with clients and suddenly your imac connects to your airpod pros sitting in their case then clicks off again.
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