HOT 207: AirPods Connecting Automatically - Getting AirPods To Stop Connecting To Random Devices!
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent helps Derek with why his AirPods Pro are automatically and randomly connecting to his wife's iPhone despite never being paired with her device.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands On Tech, we take a look at a pesky but maybe helpful feature where your AirPods connect automatically to different devices. |
| 0:10.3 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech, the show where I, Micah Sargent, take your tech questions |
| 0:23.4 | and do my best to answer them. And in many cases do. Yay. Today, our question comes in from Derek. |
| 0:30.5 | Derek writes in to say, I need your help with a weird AirPods problem. My AirPods Pro will automatically |
| 0:36.5 | connect to my wife's phone randomly. And for those |
| 0:39.8 | out there listening who have AirPods Pro or AirPods and who are a little bit aware of the built-in |
| 0:47.5 | features for this, you've probably already decided that you figured out what's going on here |
| 0:52.7 | like I did whenever I started |
| 0:54.5 | to read this email. But I promise you there's more to the situation than what you might think. So continue |
| 0:58.8 | to listen. Don't tune out just yet. I've only ever paired them to my phone and never to my wife's phone. |
| 1:06.2 | But occasionally, when I try to connect to my phone, they will connect to my wife's phone instead. |
| 1:11.6 | Then she will go into settings and Bluetooth on her phone and tap on forget device. |
| 1:17.6 | At this point, my phone doesn't recognize the AirPods anymore. |
| 1:22.6 | Neither does hers. |
| 1:24.6 | I then have to reconnect them to my phone. |
| 1:26.6 | I've tried Google for the problem, but didn't have any luck. And then have to reconnect them to my phone. I've tried Google for the problem, |
| 1:28.3 | but didn't have any luck. And then Derek, Derek, you wonderful human being, you've provided more |
| 1:36.2 | info, and we love it when people provide more info. Great work, Derek. Derek says, other things that |
| 1:42.2 | might help you. I do have the setting on for automatic connection between devices. We are a part of the same family with our ICloud accounts. We do have a Mac studio that we share, but we have separate accounts. These are the only things I can think of that connect us somehow. So my first thought, whenever it came to this, is that AirPods |
| 2:07.7 | have this great feature that gives you the ability to automatically connect to a device that you're |
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