Disable automatic connection of AirPods to iPad, iMac, MacBook or other Apple devices

In this tutorial you will learn how to disable the automatic AIRPODS connection to iPad, Mac or MacBook. Stop your AirPods from switching automatically.

Apple puts a great price on synchronization and interaction of devices in the ecosystem, and castles AirPods I am no exception to this feature.
An Apple Watch we can't use it if we don't have an iPhone to initiate it, MacBook and Imac can be unlocked with Apple Watch, Music on Homepod / Homepod Mini can be started and only by the simple approach of a Touch surface iPhone, which can run independently on the device, an iPad Pro we can use it as an extension of the MacBook / IMAC screen by feature Sidecar Without the need for physical connection through the cable between the two devices, the examples of synchronization and interactions between Apple devices could continue. Most likely we will make a complete article about this.

As for AirPods Pro / Airpods Max, thanks to the H1 chip, they bear beside "Hey Siri"And a faster syncornization with the other Apple devices around us. So if we have airpods that are in the ears and you are near an iPhone, iPad and Imac or MacBook, it will be a" show "of synchronization. Not just pleasant for the user. The mention is that all devices belong to the same account. Airpods at iPad and other Apple devices.

Airpods Pro will automatically connect to all devices and the audio content will come from the active device. But there is also the scenario you want to make a voice call / video from the iPhone(with Airpods Pro in your ears) and have the unpleasant surprise for the headphones to hear the music started on the iPad or MacBook. Automatically, without asking whether or not you want music from another Apple device to transfer to AirPods Pro.

I personally went through this situation several times. Being called on the iPhone, when I put the headphones in my ears and took over the call, the sound came from Imac, where I watched a video content, instead of coming to my iPhone where I was already in a call. The best idea was to disable the automatic AirPods to iPad, Mac, MacBook.

If we use the AirPods Pro headphones more for the iPhone (calls, music, Siri), it is best to impeach them automatically to other Apple devices around us.

Compared to other wireless headphones, airpods once initiated on an Apple device, the Bluetooth connection will be done with all the devices on which the same ICLOUD account is. Their deletion from the list of Bluetooth connections from a device will lead to elimination of them. So it is not a good idea. We can do something else, however, to prevent airpods to automatically connect to iPad, MacBook or IMAC.

How can you disable the automatic AIRPODS connecting to iPad

To disable the automatic AirPods to IPAD, IMAC, MacBook or other Apple devices, all you have to do is follow the tutor below. It's very simple.

1. Open the loading housing of the airpods and put the headphones in the ears.

2. Go on iPad (If you no longer want to automatically take the sound on this device) In: “Settings” →  “Bluetooth“ and we press on the sign ”i"Of the"AirPods Pro"See the image below.

3. In the Airpods Pro settings from Bluetooth you have an option by which you can stop the automatic sound transfer on the iPod when you have the headphones in your ears. This is the option ”Connect to This iPad", Which by default is seated on the automatic mode.

4. Megi to the option ”Connect to This iPad"And change from"Automatically” in “When Last Connected to This iPad“.

After you have changed this setting, the automatic AirPods connect to the iPad is no longer made, unless the headphones were last manually connected.

Basically this option will switch to the automatic sound from the iPad on Airpods only if this was the last device to which the headphones last time.

I noticed that there are tutorial portals that give the solution to deactivate the option ”Automatic Ear Detection". It does not make sense to deactivate this option, especially since I noticed with her activated and disabled, Airpods behaves the same. I mean" I tested "Automatic Ear Detection"Disabled on the iPhone 12 Pro, and Airpods have automatically connected as soon as I put them in their ears.

iPad will continue to detect whether or not the headphones are active (in the ears) and we will be able to switch the sound on the iPad on the airpods and we can We see below the level of charge of the battery of the housing and the headphones. Even if theoretically airpods are no longer connected to the iPad.

If we manually switch the sound from the iPad on the airpods, at the next reuse of AirPods it will be automatically reconnected at the iPad.

As I said at the beginning of the tutorial, it is a true "festival" of notification if we had more Apple devices around and we put AirPods Pro in the ears. Imac and MacBook Pro are no exception.

Voice calls whether they are made by facetime or not, they can be taken on both iPhone and IMAC / MacBook or iPad if you have them in proximity when you are called. But if you want to use only iPhone and take the call on airpods, I tell you from the experience that it is best to disable the automatic switching from the IMAC on Airpods. Not once did I suffer to respond from Airpods Pro and the call was switched alone when on the IMAC, when on the iPhone, I did not understand anything, neither me nor the conversation peer.

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After you see how you can disable the automatic AIRPODS connection to the iPad to see how you can do this on Mac.

How do you disable the automatic connection of AIRPODS / AIRPODS PRO LA IMAC and / or MACBOK

If you want, the airpods headphones will not be automatically connected to the Mac, the steps in the tutorial below will be helpful.

1. Open ”System Preferences"And go to"Bluetooth“.

2. In the list of Bluetooth devices and accessories connected to IMAC / MacBook Pro, we identify the AirPods headphones, we connect them, then click on the "Options"From their right.

3. In “Options"We have several options for Airpods Pro. From the microphone we want to use and to automatically connecting to the device when the airpods are placed in the ears.

The same as the iPad, at “Connect to This Mac“ We will change from “Automatically“ in “When Last Connected to This Mac“. That is, in the same way you stop the automatic connection of AIRPODS to the iPad.

Castile AirPods will no longer automatically connect to IMAC or MacBook unless at their last use were manually connected to this device.

Of course, both from iPad and Mac you can still easily transfer the sound from the internal difozor to AirPods / AirPods Pro.