Q: Can you use multiple bluetooth headphones on an iPad Air?

How Bluetooth Works

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/bluetooth.htm

iOS: Supported Bluetooth profiles

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3647

iOS: How to troubleshoot Bluetooth connections

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4562

You can connect multiple bluetooth devices, like a keyboard and headphones. However, not two that use audio. That's because the audio channel over A2DP can only play to one device at a time.  Its a limitation of the audio feed via bluetooth - there is no split or simultaneous feed to multiple devices.  A2DP is a uni-directional 2 channel (ie. stereo) audio feed only.

 Cheers, Tom

You can pair multiple BT headsets to one iPad. However, you can only connect to one at a time.

It is very smart QUESTION.

Most of USER (husband & wife)  for iPad AIR can  listen audio or watching movie  together

IPAD was design  for PORTABLE  ( for trip/vacation)

if one person can listen sound ==> that is not right !!

APPLE have plenty of ENGINEER & MARKETING product Research  ==> why they never think about this

it is very SIMPLE , customer need --> if Steve Jobs is ALIVE --> he will be upset to this BUG.

Billions dollars  pay for ... but All Apple never see this.

let's wait & see how long it take to  TIM COOK  to see this IMPORTANT  to be FIX.

I'm not the  SOFTWARE engineer , but i think  APPLE can create an APP to do this  easy.

it will made APPLE more famous.

Binh Nguyen,  R&D tech Engineer computer PCB  ( 35 year)

I Would like to hear Tim Cook address this issue. could it be that Apple are not aware of the need for multiple wireless Bluetooth headphones? Considering they have Apple TV service, from which I purchase all my movies.  It would be nice if the wife could watch and listen to the movies with wireless  headphones too.

I wonder if Apple reads these messages????

please please support upto 4 multiple Bluetooth headphones to your products I.e TV

Instead of wondering, you should post your argument here https://www.apple.com/feedback/. But as Tom said, Bluetooth may not be the right vehicle for this.

Bluetooth is not an Apple technology.

https://www.bluetooth.com

It is not possible for Apple to unilaterally update Bluetooth to allow this. They are merely part of a much larger group.

You can contact the Bluetooth group here >> https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/contact-us

It's entirely possible the newly designed W1 chip they announced today as part of the AirPods product could allow this in the future.