Strange chirping sound from APP 2 case

[Vlad Soare]

Hi,

The charging case of my second generation AirPods Pro has started to blink and chirp when I pick it up after having sat unused for several hours. This is something new, it only started a couple of days ago. It never did that before. It lasts for about ten seconds, and there’s nothing I can do to make it stop. Opening the lid, closing it, taking the AirPods out of the case, you name it, nothing will make it stop chirping. It only stops when it wants to.

Needless to say, this annoys the bejesus out of me. What the hell does it want? What’s it trying to tell me?

Thank you.

 

[Bigwaff]

The AirPods 2nd Gen case supports Find My. The case is acting like an unknown AirTag "following" you around. Double-check the case is associated to your iCloud account and visible in the Find My app.

 

[Vlad Soare]

It is still associated with my iCloud account, it’s visible in Find My, and its location is correctly displayed.

 

[haralds]

Delete it from all devices and re-pair.

 

[Vlad Soare]

No, I don't want to delete and re-pair it. Even if it worked, that would be more like a temporary band-aid than a proper solution.

But I don't understand, what on Earth does it hope to achieve? It's silent all day long, and then it goes beserk when I pick it up in order to tell me I'm being stalked? Really? But I'm already perfectly aware of its existence, because I'm holding it in my hand and looking at it, for God's sake! This is beyond stupid.
If I want to let someone else, like one of my daughters, use them while I'm away from home, will they beep at her all the time until I return? Is this really designed, intended behaviour? Am I in a Kafka novel?

And why did they not do this until three days ago? What has changed? There was no change whatsoever in my iCloud configuration lately, and no firmware update that I'm aware of. They were 5B58 before, and they're 5B58 now.

 

[Bigwaff]

If I want to let someone else, like one of my daughters, use them while I'm away from home,

Did this happen? If so, if one of your daughter's iPhones are nearby, then perhaps the case is chirping trying to let them know it's "following" them around.

 

[Ralfi]

No, I don't want to delete and re-pair it. Even if it worked, that would be more like a temporary band-aid than a proper solution.

Or it may work & save you stress. Sometimes the unexpected solutions work & make you think why you didn’t do it sooner.

What have you got to lose?

I’ve learned that being stubborn denies one from opportunities in life….& refusing to re-pair a seemingly insignificant tech device is lazy (as it takes less than a couple of minutes) & frankly rude (after people have kindly decided to help you out)..

Just do it…

& if it doesn’t work, then that’s good too, because you’ve just eliminated a possible cause to your stress-inducing problem, bringing you one step closer to find the cause….which is what troubleshooting is all about.

 

[Vlad Soare]

Did this happen?

No, it didn't. At least not yet. I was just thinking that it might happen if the above assumption - that this is an intentional anti-stalking behaviour - were correct.
It hasn't done this again since I started this thread. So there seems to be a random element to it as well.

 

[xenoako]

Hi,

The charging case of my second generation AirPods Pro has started to blink and chirp when I pick it up after having sat unused for several hours. This is something new, it only started a couple of days ago. It never did that before. It lasts for about ten seconds, and there’s nothing I can do to make it stop. Opening the lid, closing it, taking the AirPods out of the case, you name it, nothing will make it stop chirping. It only stops when it wants to.

Needless to say, this annoys the bejesus out of me. What the hell does it want? What’s it trying to tell me?

Thank you.

I have 3 APP2 and see this behavior on all three devices. I am not certain of a pattern.
I am more bothered by the cases not keeping their charge.

 

[Cowboy8467]

No, it didn't. At least not yet. I was just thinking that it might happen if the above assumption - that this is an intentional anti-stalking behaviour - were correct.
It hasn't done this again since I started this thread. So there seems to be a random element to it as well.

Did you ever figure out why this was happening? Not only is this happening to my APP2 it is also happening with two airtags that I have.

What's more, when I go into find my they show up with no issue, but if I try to get them to make a sound or try to find them using the find my app on my phone it doesn't work at all.

 

[Vlad Soare]

No, it hasn't done it since. And making it sound via the Find My app does work.

 

[Cowboy8467]

No, it hasn't done it since. And making it sound via the Find My app does work.

Thanks. I'm having zero luck getting my Airpods and Airtags to make noise in the find my app. I placed a call to Apple and they've escalated it to the engineers, the guy seemed to think it might be icloud related or something. Hopefully they'll be able to figure it out.

 

[jimmyjoy]

Mine did this today and also I can’t locate them on find my. I can see their location but there’s no option to ‘find’ them.

 

[Cowboy8467]

Mine did this today and also I can’t locate them on find my. I can see their location but there’s no option to ‘find’ them.

Both my airtags and my APP2 started working in the find my app eventually, but I did have to reset them and re-pair them with my phone. They started working properly again after I did that.