AirPods connecting to Multiple Devices?

Wis I would have read all replies, I created a login just to say the same thing.. Love my QC, probably gonna return my airpods, cause they just take up air in my bag. 😟

I am fond of Bose products myself. But the QC35 is more than twice as costly as the AirPods, so it isn’t surprising they are better.

AirPods are clearly not the right product for your use. You should always get the product that best meets your needs.

This actually worked.

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All that just to connect 2 devices, my cheap £19 Bluetooth headphones can do it without all the hassle, it just gives me a voice prompt saying 2 devices connected, I bought AirPods thinking surely at this price it wil come as stan

Plantronics Voyageur Edge will also connect to multiple devices. Unfortunately, they are also pretty flaky. My wife and I have been through IIRC four of them between us. I just bought a set of Airpods to replace my flaky Edge (where flaky = sound quality on calls is sometimes really poor and it frequently drops the bluetooth connection even if the phone is right in my pocket; sometimes it comes right back, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the Edge doesn't even tell me it lost the connection).

My opinion so far of the Airpods is that I never thought something made of hard plastic could be this comfortable, and the sound quality is great. A couple of downsides are that they don't have buttons and don't natively understand voice commands, which are strengths of the Edge. OTOH, it's not unusual to have to tell the Edge "Answer" two or three times when I get a call, louder each time. Sometimes, I just have to push the button. I know you can use Siri for some voice command stuff, such as changing volume, but buttons are really better for that and I prefer a dedicated button to tapping twice on the Airpod to answer a call. Haven't yet looked into how to mute a call, if that can be done. On-ear detection is much better with Airpods; with the Edge, I just disabled it because it was so unreliable. I have not yet had an Airpod in my ear for as long as I have used the Edge (all day, when on a road trip; I use Google Maps to second-guess my RV GPS) so that jury is still out, but so far so good on comfort.

In short, I would say that there is no perfect headset. The Edge has a feature set totally oriented toward taking calls and because of that, is superior to Airpods as a call-centric device. However, since the Edge is so unreliable, that places it below Airpods overall. For things other than calls, the Edge has decent sound quality (not as good as Airpods), but its weakness is that it's in one ear only.

My overall opinion is that if the Edge were as reliable as Airpods (of course, all four of them were reliable in the beginning, so time will tell) it would be the best bluetooth phone device in the world, by far. It's also pretty good as a runner's ear piece (I don't use headphones when running, I always want one ear unimpaired; cars), but since it isn't, Airpods are currently in pole position for me.

Yeah, my Jabra Move headset is the same. I was surprised. I picked up a pair of Sony headphones. I love the audio quality of them, but the connection is a pain. It's worse even than AirPods because I can't just go in and connect the device I want to use, I first have to disconnect the last device (at least when using it on my iPad and iPhone). It's a real pain.

Sadly, I too spent the bucks only to find it will not "seamlessly" connect to multiple devices. Given that, my biggest problem is that if my iPad and iPhone are within spitting distance, the AirPods become psycho and start disconnecting/connecting back and forth. Big problem when I'm on a call with my Boss and the AirPods decide they'd rather connect to the iPad. What's with that???

Hmm. Just off the top of my head: Sennheiser PXC550 absolutely does it, as the the Panasonic ANC ones (even better then the SH's). .

Also, if memory serves my Bose QC35 do sort of, and I think my Beats Studio 3 wireless also does a fair approximation. The AirPods, regardless of what they say about working with any device signed into same iCloud account are a fail for me - but at least 3 days in my ears have stopped aching from the oversized ear inserts.

Hi Lawrence. I'm not sure why you think it cannot work with any Bluetooth device. It works great with my Bose headsets and my Plantronics V5200. They are connected to multiple devices at the same time. There indeed seems to be one "master" device. For example, my PLT V5200 was first paired with my laptop, and then to my iPhone. If I play music on the iPhone, and then play a Youtube video on my laptop, the laptop gets the channel. I'm not sure if incoming calls from the iPhone would get through with continuous audio already being played on the "master" device. But I have never had any issues not hearing sounds on my headsets.

Yes, Harsh_patel1 is correct.

Multi-point technology is the ability for a receiving device to be connected to multiple devices simultaneously. My QC35 headphones have this feature, allowing me to press "pause" on my phone, then "play" on my mac without messing around with connection settings. I know that the jabra truly wireless earbuds have this feature as well.

Unfortunately, for some reason muli-point is incredibly undermarketed, so instead of just adding the feature to the new airpods, apple bragged about increasing the speed at which they are able to switch between devices.