AirPods disconnect after Catalina update

Give this a try. It solved the same issue I was having after upgrading to Catalina.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macos-catalina-problems/

It is not AirPods specific. I have JBL Charge 4 now and same thing happens when RAM thrashing starts. I get heavy memory usage warning from CleanMyMac and speaker connection is dropped.

how much storage left on your Mac? I’ve upgraded my ssd and now it seems to be working. I’m still using without any issues by one week

I've upgraded from 128gb to 512gb ssd

I tried all of the options you did as well and went into the Mac store but nothing works then I tried this https://www.ikream.com/2019/11/how-to-fix-problems-with-bluetooth-on-macos-catalina-36499. Those steps seem to work for me.

After a few days of the fix working, it stopped. The same problem came back with airpods connecting and then disconnecting after 10-15 seconds. I removed them from bluetooth, rebooted, re-paired them, and they have been connected for 10 mins now. I'll probably keep following up on this thread until there is a fix.

I got my case escalated to engineering and have a call later today. I would suggest EVERYONE with this issue to get on chat, do the same stupid steps or tell them they are already done, and persist, and get escalated to senior level, and then right through to engineering where they call you. If we all do that, we can get this ironed out.

I can connect my $14 chinese bluetooth headphones that have 7 hours of battery life no prob. But I can't connect my $150 airpods for one minute...on a computer designed by the same company. That is amazing. Amazing!!!!

No, unfortunately, it is not. Initially, I thought about it and did some tests just with Apple Music open and the problem still happened ...

I also saw some cases where Macs Pro had the same behavior, and they were newer models – with more RAM – than my macbook. So, I still believe it is an OS problem.

I have a MacBook Air (2013) and the same problem

I'm facing the same issue when I updated to Catalina, It seems to be something with RAM

When I open a lot of program airpods keep disconnecting

that's really disgusting

My airpods kept working until I turn the macbook off with phones connected

but I've resetted again and now it's fine

I confirm, after Catalina 10.15.4 I have no disconnection at all.

More about of the testing I did today...

I've noted that Airpods, in my case, only disconnect when I'm listening to music on Apple Music or podcasts on Podcasts App. Safari, Chrome and other software don't disconnect them...

Anyone can verify that, please?

I've also done steps from https://www.ikream.com/2019/11/how-to-fix-problems-with-bluetooth-on-macos-catalina-36499. It was working for me for all day and I hope that was the fix of issue , but unfortunately today airpods were disconnected again

It would be great to hear any feedback from Apple guys because currently we haven't even know if anyone is fixing or planning to fix it. This issue makes a lot of troubles for me, it actually means I couldn't use airpods with Mac at all in current moment.