AirPods won't connect to MacBook Pro or iPad

Put the AirPods in your ears, you should hear the chime to tell you you've connected to your iPhone. Now, on your mac, do the AirPods show up in the volume menu bar when you hold option and click the volume icon at the top of your screen? If so, select them and they automatically switch over to your mac.

They do not need to be setup individually for each of your Apple devices as long as they all share the same iCloud account. They're automatically paired across all of your Apple devices the first time you set them up and you should be able to switch your output device on the fly. I do it all the time!

i use my AirPods to connect to a Win7 machine often and I have had this problem. What works for me is to got to bluetooth on my iPhone, select AirPods and then forget this device. Then go through standard reconnect procedurI can then just select AirPods on my phone, iPad and MacBook without a hitch.

Works for me every time...

Went to bed the other night and forgot I was still using my AirPods. AI..... AirPod Insomnia

I couldn't get my pods to automatically pair with my iPad and Mac. I tried everything suggested here. I finally tried pairing each device individually. That worked. So if the pods are only supposed to need onetime pairing with the cloud taking care of the rest, it didn't work for me. I'm running the latest software iOS 10.3.3.

disable the bluetooth on your iphone to make sure it does not have an active connection with the phone as you can't pair when it's active connected to other devices at the time

The AirPods sync with my iPhone, but do not appear as an output device for the MacBook Pro.

How do I add AirPods to the MacBook Pro bluetooth devices?