Well the pairing was seamless on all devices including the watch. Switching between the two phones and the Ipad involves tapping on the airpods under the control center bluetooth. So they are paired with the watch. But when I go to airplay and tap on them as instructed for the watch, they connect briefly and then connection fails. They all have the current OS and are listed among the supported hardware. Apple Accessibility says it should be working better than this and they're supposedly looking into it. I asked them if the intent was for the airpods to work on the watch only when music is playing, I don't have any music on the watch. They said it shouldn't be a factor but I'm thinking I should put some. But I'd like to point the airpods to my watch, take my dog outside, and answer the phone from the watch when it rings. Right now I can't do that.
On 1/6/17, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Apple states that for the “seamless switching” iOS 10, Mac OS Sierra and > Watch OS 3 are required. While Bluetooth Multipoint is not supported, > Airpods should still work between Apple devices. They are after all made by > Apple and designed primarily for Apple devices and I am not surprised that > Apple is pulling the somewhat proprietary number here. Here is what it says > on the Apple website and what I am curious about regarding using the Airpods > with an iPhone and an Apple Watch: > > Automatic setup. Seamless switching. > AirPods connect automatically with all your Apple devices. They’re > simultaneously connected to your iPhone and Apple Watch, and sound switches > instantly between the devices. > Want to listen to your Mac or iPad? Just choose AirPods on those devices. > > According to this they should work and switch seamlessly between an iPhone > and Apple Watch, but if you want to use them for an iPad or Mac computer you > have to select them as the audio destination. I have not bought them and for > now I doubt I will given the price especially here in Canada. I just don’t > feel like spending $250 which is what the price ends up being by the time I > add our sales taxes and then of course there is also my wife who might want > a set so that would be $500 if we both bought a pair and no matter how you > look at it that is a heck of a lot of money especially since Apple may > release the second generation of these who might be a whole lot better and > offer a lot more control on the headset. I really don’t like the fact that > all I can do is invoke SIRI which of course isn’t even an option should you > be out of WiFi or cell data range. My Plantronics Voyager Edge is only a > single earpiece, but it also pauses playback when I take it out of my ear, > it has volume controls, play/pause and forward/rewind on the earpiece, I can > still bring up SIRI and if somebody calls me I can just tell it to answer > the call and it will do that without me ever touching the phone or the > earpiece. It has 6 hours of talk time and more for playback time and also > has a cradle which can recharge it a bit more than once. It was also half > the price of the Airpods so even though I think the Airpods are probably > very nice, they fall short of what I would want them to be for now. > I used to feel it was OK to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and > 7 Plus, but right now I actually think it was probably not a great idea. > Maybe if the new iPhone this coming fall supports really good wireless > charging technology so that you can use a Lightning headset at the same time > as you charge and without having to resort to some complicated $40 dongle I > may change my mind again, but if the next iPhone still needs to be plugged > in I may very well hold onto my 6S Plus for a third year. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Kevin Chao > Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 3:56 AM > To: viphone <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Apple watch and Air Pods > > I've found the AirPods (or Beats w/ W1-chip) to: > 1. not support multipoint, so the switching between devices isn't possible; > 2. The magic of seemless pairing, auto-connecting, etc. only happens with > iOS 10 device > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:23 PM Deb Lewis > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I got my Air Pods today. So far I am very impressed with the sound > quality, but I got them to use back and forth between my phone and > Apple Watch and they seem to be a big fail for this unless I'm really > missing something. > Pairing them to a phone was easy, and they easily reconnect themselves > to that phone. But my Apple watch and my second phone will not stay > connected, and the watch doesn't connect unless I reboot the watch. > Every BT headset on the market can do this badly. I'm fine about going > into Control panel on the watch and connecting, but it should connect > and it should stay connected. but neither are true. So any suggestions > are welcome. 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