How to Find Your Lost AirPods (aka Enable Location Tracking Map) - How to use AirPods, AirPods Pro and AirPods Max: Tips and general instructions

How to utilize AirPods, AirPods Pro and AirPods Max: Tips and general instructions

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How to Find Your Lost AirPods (aka Enable Location Tracking Map)

Find Lost AirPods With a Tracking Map

In that location'due south no denying the convenience of wireless headphones, though the minor size of the AirPods and AirPods Pro makes them easy to lose. And misplacing a $549 pair of AirPods Max doesn't carry thinking most.

Don't panic, though, because Apple tree has a solution. Here's how to find lost AirPods using iOS or Mac:

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:

one. Launch the Find My iPhone app.

2. Sign in with your Apple tree ID and password.

3. Tap your AirPods in the listing.

On your MacBook:

1. Go to your iCloud and sign in with your Apple ID.

2. Open Observe iPhone.

3. Click All Devices.

4. Select your AirPods.

From here, y'all should encounter a map showing an gauge location of your missing buds. If the AirPods are on, you'll run into a dark-green dot on the map if they're powered on and a gray dot if they're out of battery, powered off or out of range of the tracker.

If the dot is greenish, that ways you can apply the app to make the buds play a audio. If both buds are lost, you tin choose to mute either the left or the right and then you lot tin track them down 1 at a time. If the dot is grey, the app won't exist able to find your buds, and you might have to consider forking out for a new set.

Sherri L. Smith has been cranking out product reviews for Laptopmag.com since 2011. In that fourth dimension, she'southward reviewed more than her share of laptops, tablets, smartphones and everything in betwixt. The resident gamer and audio junkie, Sherri was previously a managing editor for Blackness Web 2.0 and contributed to BET.Com and Popgadget.