My AirPods are almost fully charged and yet they refuse to actually play sound through them when I try to connect them to my MacBook Pro. They are showing up in the BlueTooth menu on the top of the screen under "Devices", but very often one of the following problems prevents me from actually listening to sound on my laptop through them like I want to:
1. When I try to go to the BlueTooth menu mentioned above and select my airpods > Connect to connect them, nothing happens, and they remain non-bold in the menu like they're not connected.
2. They are bold in the menu, implying that they are connected, but sound insists on playing out of my laptop speakers instead of my AirPods like I want, no matter how many times I turn BlueTooth off and on again on my laptop and try to select my airpods from the volume menu at the top of the screen (in this case, because the AirPods are connected, in the sound menu under "output device" there are two options, my MacBook Pro speakers and my AirPods; the "MacBook Pro Speakers" remains checked and those remain the speakers through which all laptop sound plays no matter how many times I select my AirPods).
This is a really frustrating problem I would love a solution to. I've looked elsewhere online but can't find any solutions that work (other than maybe restarting my laptop which I don't feel like doing).
1. When I try to go to the BlueTooth menu mentioned above and select my airpods > Connect to connect them, nothing happens, and they remain non-bold in the menu like they're not connected.
2. They are bold in the menu, implying that they are connected, but sound insists on playing out of my laptop speakers instead of my AirPods like I want, no matter how many times I turn BlueTooth off and on again on my laptop and try to select my airpods from the volume menu at the top of the screen (in this case, because the AirPods are connected, in the sound menu under "output device" there are two options, my MacBook Pro speakers and my AirPods; the "MacBook Pro Speakers" remains checked and those remain the speakers through which all laptop sound plays no matter how many times I select my AirPods).
This is a really frustrating problem I would love a solution to. I've looked elsewhere online but can't find any solutions that work (other than maybe restarting my laptop which I don't feel like doing).
