Tested-New AirPods with iPod Nano 7th Generation (current)

KuRiX wrote:

Version 3.5.1 of airpods adds ipod nano compatibility, now they work as expected. This indicates that Apple knew this was a BUG and it is fixed now. They had no reason for not adding support for the ipod nano.

It would only have been a bug if Apple had said that the Nano was supported but the AirPods didn't work with the Nano. They explicitly left Nano off the original list. You do not know why they chose to leave it off. They probably had reasons that made sense to the engineers and developers. Now, it appears they have added a new capability: compatibility with the Nano. Whether that was always on the roadmap or whether Apple was responding to feedback is something we will never know.

It this was a bug or not is something we will never know. They did not mention Apple TV and it worked from the very beginning. They did not mention dozens of devices that worked from day one. I am a developer with several years in bluetooth development and it is very easy to have a bug that will make a specific device don't work as expected.

I am pretty sure they did not put a sentence to leave the ipod nano out on purpose.

Regards!

I still have the issue of volume being too low to be usable with 3.5.1. Apple Support pointed out that the requirements for AirPods include iOS10 or higher so it's not likely the nano will support them. Anyone have other ideas?

Hemispheres1 wrote:

In fairness, whether someone was able to find and read the compatibility chart for the new Airpods or not, Apple consumers who dished out $160 for Apple's latest bluetooth earbuds had the right to expect they would be compatible with Apple's most recent compact iPod.

Why did that have a right to expect that? I can understand that they wanted it to be so. But it wasn't the case. And Apple had no obligation to make it so. In my opinion, anyone who spends that much money without reading the specs is being very foolish.

I didn't go through the complex steps that HelloDMo wrote up but i regularly use my AirPods with my iPod-nano and find that the volume changes at different times i use them. Sometimes the volume is great and i can easily go running with the volume at a third of full other times i have it at maximum and can hardly hear a thing. I think i found a solution that works for me - well temporarily so far anyhow.

My theory is that it may be the volume it was last paired with my iPhone in phone call mode before switching to my iPod nano or more specifically after i have been on a phone call on my iPhone and then pair immediately with my iPod nano.

Apple purposely limited the music volume on the AirPods but boosted the speaking volume when holding a phone call, which completely bewildered me why they'd do this. Pairing with a non-apple product - if pairing is successful - allows the AirPods to function at their proper speaker volume. Try call making a phone call on your iPhone; this can be done with WhatsApp or whatever then pair with the iPod nano. The volume should be much louder. This has worked for me the last several times. Not sure if it always works.

Same issue here, so it is confirmed, airpods and ipod nano don't work well together 😟

Now they will build a new ipod nano with the new awesome feature of supporting airpods... very sad.

I don't see that they list the Nano as compatible.

You are right, but they work with 10 years old android mp3 players...

So what? That's purely coincidental.

Learn to read the compatibility chart first.

No. It's purely stupid. Their own products should work together.

Their products do work together. But Apple never claimed that it would work with the Nano, which is a much older product.

Is this still working for you? Did the increased volume level hold up?