Probably 99% of people want it that way. I only ever want them to pair with my iPhone. Is this Possible. When I remove from iPad as an example it gives warning that it is tied to iCloud account.
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AirPods Linked to all devices with same iCloud ID
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Somewhat confused here... I use AirPods 2 with my iPhone or my iPad. However, I need to manually switch to them on each device. For example, if I use them on my iPhone, in order to use them on the iPad I need to manually select them in the iPad’s Control Centre or Bluetooth (the latter is more cumbersome), otherwise they simply remain “attached” to my iPhone and will not automatically move over to the iPad.
I don't believe it's possible without unlinking the device (in this case your iPad) from the iCloud account. Which seems way worse than the original problem.
Just curious - why does it matter? It's not like they have multipoint, where they are actually connected to the iPad; they are just paired. If you never affirmatively connect them, the fact of the pairing shouldn't matter, right?
Just curious - why does it matter? It's not like they have multipoint, where they are actually connected to the iPad; they are just paired. If you never affirmatively connect them, the fact of the pairing shouldn't matter, right?
Ya. I’m going to use my current set that only lasts 30 min, with my iPad when I use in bed.
Buying a new set and wanted to only have those appear on iPhone. I never use on my Mac mini. I just wanted to check if I wasn’t missing a device opt out setting somewhere.
like when I sell a car I no longer have, I remove the BT connection. Sure it doesn’t hurt anything, it’s just sloppy, to leave it there.
Buying a new set and wanted to only have those appear on iPhone. I never use on my Mac mini. I just wanted to check if I wasn’t missing a device opt out setting somewhere.
like when I sell a car I no longer have, I remove the BT connection. Sure it doesn’t hurt anything, it’s just sloppy, to leave it there.
it's supposed to automatically come up in the airplay audio menu in any audio application.
Other headphones don't appear here unless you manually connect to them on the bluetooth settings app.
Ah, I see. Sure, they do automatically appear there, yet you still need to click on them to connect, at which point they will disconnect from the previous device. So the OP can continue using his AP just on his iPhone, as he wants.
I had this with my original AirPods, I never used them on the Apple Watch and only used the BeatsX.. I really didn't want them to appear at all. The solution for me was to give the BeatsX to the Mrs and the AirPods to one of my daughters and to get some AirPod Pros which I CAN run with and use for generally everything.
One thing to note is that with my iPhone Xs and Apple Watch S5 the AirPod Pro's behave slightly differently and appear as connected on BOTH devices simultaneously unlike the previous AirPod gen 2's I had. This does make them switch more seamlessly but I have had one odd occurrence with a watch app interrupting audio playing from the phone and pausing it.
I think the 'connected' status is over some control protocol and this helps the device switch where the A2DP Audio protocol is coming from faster.
One thing to note is that with my iPhone Xs and Apple Watch S5 the AirPod Pro's behave slightly differently and appear as connected on BOTH devices simultaneously unlike the previous AirPod gen 2's I had. This does make them switch more seamlessly but I have had one odd occurrence with a watch app interrupting audio playing from the phone and pausing it.
I think the 'connected' status is over some control protocol and this helps the device switch where the A2DP Audio protocol is coming from faster.