apple airpods microphone not working

This fix does not work for me. Both mics don’t work. I can listen to music. The touch functions work fine but the mics won’t activate Siri anymore. When I make a call I can neither hear nor be heard. Please let me know which steps I should take. Thank you

Have you tried to switch from left/righ only microphone instead of automatic selection? I discovered this morning that the right mike is not working. It was configured with auto microphone and was using the right one therefore was not working even if siri was activated in locked mode. Result I have a defective microphone on a brand new Airpods pair.

This is a firmware issue. After extensive testing I have come to this conclusion. At first I thought only the right microphone was working on my AirPods. However I got my left mic working under certain circumstances, so I know that it can’t be hardware failure. Apple please sort this out it’s very annoying. I think it started when you introduced split gesture controlling, to enable us to pick a different double tap result for each pod, because up until that point I didn’t have any problems with people not being able to hear me. I have called my landline answerphone repeatedly using different settings. The answerphone has the advantage of disconnecting after a five second period of silence so I know exactly when each mic was operating and when not. Interestingly I could get my left mic working (an audible message was played back on my answerphone) when only using that pod (with the right pod left in the charging case).

I guess the short term answer is to find out which mic is working for you and set and fix it to that mic in settings / Bluetooth/Whoever’s AirPods/ i

Long term Apple please give us a new firmware update. Thanks.

It may seem like both mikes are not working but it’s simply selecting the one that’s not registering. Find out the one that is and then switch to that one. If you don’t know how there may be some clues in my post above.

I got mine working by changing my setting a couple of times from Microphone from Automatic to Right and Left, then back to Automatic. Also changed the left and right Double-Tap settings. All works now.

I think it's more of the firmware than hardware problem.

Check Settings > Siri on your iPhone and be certain "Access when Locked" is set to "On".

My right airpod worked when I got it but now it does not. The left one works fine. Not sure if I broke it or what. 😟

I have the exact same issue on my 2012 macbook air and on windows 10 using a usb dongle. Anyone at all know why? ANYONE