AirPods - siblings arguing! Help?

[Abbymc]

I’m sorry - this is a very one off but my neighbour has teenage children who both own a pair of AirPods.
They both have a case, however; one of the two has lost their AirPods and potentially picked up one of the other siblings single AirPod.
Is there any way to tell whether the AirPods are a pair? I notice that there are codes on the AirPods themselves... do these correspond?
Please help, their arguing cuts into both mine & my neighbours gin and whinge time!

 

[jerwin]

airpod skins?

 

[Abbymc]

I wish this was that easy! One sibling has obviously lost their AirPods and stolen one from the other sibling so now they both have a charging case, but one has a right AirPod and one has a left AirPod and tah-dah! Both sync up to both phones... so we can’t establish who is the trouble causer. I was hoping that there would be a specific code that links right to left on both AirPods (I noticed there is an A code on both AirPods but they are different). I was hoping there would be a way for us to work out whether they each have one of their own AirPods (and clearly the more pressing question is where are your opposite AirPods?) or whether we have a set, and somebody needs to own up to stealing

 

[jerwin]

ah..

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207009

the serial numbers are tied to the product receipt/invoice.

Of course, if you bought them at the same time, this might still require a bit of detective work.

 

[Abbymc]

Tried this - they both have a charging case... so their paperwork will have the serial numbers of both cases... we need some way of determining whether the serial numbers are related to the A numbers on the actual pods.

 

[jerwin]

Are those the A numbers/codes you're looking for?

 

[Abbymc]

Yes... so they are just item numbers rather than specific codes - irrelevant to the case code

 

[laptech]

I’m sorry - this is a very one off but my neighbour has teenage children who both own a pair of AirPods.
They both have a case, however; one of the two has lost their AirPods and potentially picked up one of the other siblings single AirPod.
Is there any way to tell whether the AirPods are a pair? I notice that there are codes on the AirPods themselves... do these correspond?
Please help, their arguing cuts into both mine & my neighbours gin and whinge time!

The airpods serial number appears in the iphones settings?

https://www.imore.com/how-find-serial-number-your-airpods

As there appears to be a different combo of the both, i suggest you take the left one, have the right one a long long distance away so there 100% no chance it will connect with the iphone, then check in the settings and see what the serial number is. Then reverse the process, take the left airpod far far way then connect the right one and check the serial number in the settings.

Hopefully, the serial number is transmitted by either airpod, but it's worth a try at least. Then match the airpod with the charging base.