Change the settings of your AirPods and AirPods Pro

Acquire how to modify the name of your AirPods and change what happens when you double tap your AirPods (1st and 2nd generation) or press and agree on AirPods Pro.

Name your AirPods

  1. Open your charging case.
  2. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact, go to Settings > Bluetooth.
  3. Tap the More Info button next to your AirPods.
  4. Tap the current proper name.
  5. Enter a new proper noun for your AirPods.
  6. Tap Done.

AirPods settings on iPhone

Modify the printing-and-hold action on AirPods Pro

AirPods Pro accept three noise control modes: Active Noise Counterfoil, Transparency mode, and Off. You can switch among all three noise control modes in Control Center or Settings.

By default, when you press and concord the force sensor on the stem of your left or right AirPod, your AirPods Pro switch between Agile Dissonance Cancellation and Transparency mode. Yous can change which noise command modes the press-and-hold activeness uses:

  1. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on, go to Settings > Bluetooth.
  2. Tap the More Info push adjacent to your AirPods in the list of devices.
  3. Nether Press and Concur AirPods, tap Left or Right, then make sure that Racket Control is selected.
  4. Select the two or three noise control modes that you want to use with printing and concur. If both AirPods are fix to alter noise control modes, a change to the press-and-hold activeness settings on one AirPod applies to both.

You tin can too fix the press-and-hold action to allow yous to use Siri. In the AirPods Pro settings screen, tap Left or Right, so select Siri. You can take one AirPod prepare for Siri and the other set to change dissonance control modes.

Change the double-tap action on AirPods (1st and 2nd generation)

You tin can choose what y'all want to happen when you double-tap one of your AirPods (1st and 2d generation):

  1. Open up your charging case.
  2. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on, go to Settings > Bluetooth.
  3. Tap the More Info button next to your AirPods.
  4. Select the left or right AirPod to choose which AirPod you'd similar to double-tap for Siri, playing or pausing audio content, or skipping betwixt tracks.

Turn Automatic Ear Detection on or off

By default, AirPods sense when they're in your ear and receive the sound from your device. AirPods besides pause and resume playback when you remove one of your AirPods, or end playback—and won't resume—when you remove both. When you take Automatic Ear Detection on and yous're not wearing your AirPods, audio plays through your device's speakers.

When you lot turn off Automatic Ear Detection, these features are off and all audio plays to your AirPods whether or not you're wearing them.

Gear up Microphone to left, right, or automatic

There'south a microphone in each AirPod, and then you can brand phone calls and use Siri. Past default, Microphone is fix to Automatic, so that either of your AirPods tin act equally the microphone. If you lot're using simply one AirPod, that AirPod will be the microphone.

You can also set Microphone to Always Left or E'er Right. You lot tin likewise ready Microphone to Always Left or Always Correct to ever have either the right or the left AirPod use the microphone even if y'all remove it from your ear or put information technology in the case.

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