Can’t answer incoming calls to AirPods by button on Apple Watch

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that sounds crazy i tried but no difference, maybe because of upcoming products?? does it sound like on purpose?? no setting changed and suddenly happend, im interested if any other dud experiencing same problem

Did anyone get fix this connection issue? The only reason I bought the Airpods Pro was the seamless integration with my apple watch. ( as 1st gen Airpods). Now this is not the case anymore. I need to manually connect the airpods to the watch every time. The green “airpods” button on apple watch answering incoming call is not there anymore.

Everything is with latest sw (ios 15 / watchos 8, firmware 3E751) unpaired, reset, I did everything… but not working as expected. Very disappointed, Apple!

Same problem and I spent a long time with two different technical support folks from apple. Finally, they said must be something wrong with the AirPods and they sent me a new pair. New ones don't work either. Just called back apple and they have no idea even though there are 93 people on this site with the same problem. Very disappointing.

This is a huge issue for me. I use both AirPods Gen 2 and AirPod Pros. It started on my 10S Max and was the deciding reason I upgraded my iPhone since I wanted to hold out for the 14. Now I have the 13ProMax and it’s still an issue. I have a new M1 MBPro and iPad Pro so I figured I would make it to the 14. So disappointing. I spend a ton of my spare time in a boat and it’s extremely difficult to answer my phone any other way.

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I decided about an hour a go to figure out the fix to find this thread. Unfortunately 90 people is not enough to get Apples attention. And the issue is likely for hundreds of thousands but it may not be big enough of an issue for them to reach out. Sucks…

I am having a similar issue. If I am listening to Spotify on my Airpods and I get a call and answer it on my watch, the podcast continues playing (!!) on the airpods while the phone call goes to my watch. On the watch, if I tap to switch the call to airpods, nothing happens. I've just tried resetting, will update this if it fixes thee issue.

I’m having the same problem and I’m so ******. When I’m listening to a book w AirPods and a call comes in, it used to be that I could answer my phone from the button on my watch and the call would go straight to my AirPods. Now if I answer the call from my watch, the call goes to my watch and whatever I’m listening to resumes. Today I was driving on a curvy road trying to navigate a call on my watch and a book in my ears while driving. It was dangerous. This is clearly a bug from recent update. I too have tried restarting all devices and have made sure I’m up to date on all the newest software. Wtf apple?! Fix it.

SAME. When will this issue fix? Its been happening with me for quite some time. What is the point of going all apple when things like these happen? Better to connect non apple watches and tws headphones to the iPhone then.

Same for me. Out for a run listening to a podcast on AirPods Pro. Receive a call and hit the button on my watch. Can’t hear the lady speaking, turns out she’s speaking through my phone.

Trying to fish my phone out of my pocket to pause the pod cast while trying to hear this lady on the watch whilst trying to keep my pace up on my run was not an easy bit of multi tasking.

Im kind of relieved to did it’s not just me. But why isn’t Apple responding to this thread at all?

I have been facing the same issue, really disappointed that the issue has been there for ages and still no response. Considering the fact that this feature has been there in the ecosystem, it shouldn’t take this long to figure out

It's a shame that Apple is not all over this. I use this ecosystem because everything should work together. I have experienced this for a while now. I just now started looking for a solution but obviously this experience is shared amongst many. Hopefully they provide a fix for this soon.

Nope. Didn’t work. Although it did make me realise there’s definitely an issue.

My watch says the AirPods aren’t connected. If I try to forget the device, it removes it from all devices. Then I repair them with my phone, and they reappear on the watch, but still disconnected.

Ah, yes, that kind of worked for a moment. But as soon as I take my AirPods out of my ears they disconnect.

ive got to then physically go into Bluetooth settings and click on them every time I want to use them. Whereas they just connect automatically with the phone.

so that kind of works as a workaround if I remember to do it before I go for a run, but it can’t be the way it’s supposed to work.

Have you actually the ol’ standard “reset and update software” fix before suggesting it as a fix? It does not work. Waste of digital paper and our time. C‘ mon… this isn’t the Microsoft forums.

So far no solution for me for AirPods Pro or AirPods Max, both connecting to apple iPhone 13 and Series 6 watch. I can switch to my AirPods Pro or Max after answering a call on my watch but the first few seconds of the call are either several seconds of silence or a bunch of “hello??” “Hello?” back and forth on my watch while I hit the … button and switch from watch to AirPods. What gives?? Seems a simple software update would fix this. Please, please implement it. I’m already on the verge of swearing off apple watches forever as it is the only apple device that makes me want to smash it on the regular.

I am also having this exact same issue, I am glad that I found this discussion because I was going crazy. It used to work now it doesn’t. Who would ever want to talk through their watch?! The quality is horrible, and what is worse is usually I am wearing freakin AirPods when it starts talking through the watch.

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