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Find me feature for Airpods not functioning correctly

Does airpods “find me” sound feature only works when the lid is open?

I have already had two instances where I cannot find my airpods, even though they are fully charged and in the same network at home.. I tested it today, and only when I open the airpods case lid then I get a repeating sound alert from the airpods.

Is this the only way this work?

Posted on Mar 15, 2021 10:38 AM

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Posted on Mar 15, 2021 11:00 AM

This is interesting since I never leave my airpods laying around out of the case. This might then be a “bit of a troublesome” issue.. knowing I cannot find them being inside the case. I will have to make sure I know where I leave them in the future (inside the case). I thought the find me feature was the same as the apple watch/iphone loud enough sound to be able to pinpoint physical location.

Thank you for your help. :)

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Mar 15, 2021 11:00 AM in response to jalegria11

This is interesting since I never leave my airpods laying around out of the case. This might then be a “bit of a troublesome” issue.. knowing I cannot find them being inside the case. I will have to make sure I know where I leave them in the future (inside the case). I thought the find me feature was the same as the apple watch/iphone loud enough sound to be able to pinpoint physical location.

Thank you for your help. :)

Mar 15, 2021 11:22 AM in response to jalegria11

They are similar, but not exactly the same for each of the Apple devices that support it.


FWIW, I just ran a little experiment with my AirPods 2 devices. I used iCloud, via my Mac mini, to attempt to both locate and play a sound on them. As I expected, they only appeared in the iCloud Find My app, when they were outside of their charging case. However, they didn't immediately disappear when I placed them back into their case (with the lid open or closed.) What I did find interesting is that they only played a sound when the following two things were true: 1) They were outside of their case, and 2) When both Bluetooth was enabled on my mini and the AirPods were connected to it. Regardless, there doesn't seem to be a clear "rhyme nor reason" on when they appear ... so, I too, am a bit concerned on the usefulness of this feature.

Find me feature for Airpods not functioning correctly

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