4th Gen AirPods - Not Connecting
I’m sorry if this is a question with a very obvious answer, but I’ve tried everything I can think of to get my AirPods to connect to my devices again, I called Apple Support and I had no luck with that either. I’m not sure if it’s something I’m doing, but I’m hoping someone could help me please.
I stayed in a hotel 3 hours away from my home, I checked out and I didn’t realise that I’d left my AirPods in my room. Luckily, I was still on site when I eventually did. When I checked the location of them on Find My it said the left one was outside of the case and it seemed to be in a slightly different location than my right AirPod and my case. Eventually the hotel found them in their safe & they handed over my case with my right AirPod. I explained that I was still missing my left AirPod, they went back into the safe and handed me a left AirPod (I’m only saying all of this because I’m convinced they’ve given me the wrong AirPod back)
Because when I got to a different hotel (10 mins away) that night, I tried to connect my AirPods to my iPad. It was saying my left AirPod was on 1% but the case and right AirPods were almost both fully charged, the left AirPod had been back in the case for around 6 hours once I received it back, so it should have been charged.
I followed a few different tips that I found on Reddit and the Apple support page. I charged them for 10 mins, reset them, basically I’ve done everything you can think of to try and connect them again. I ‘forgot them’ on both my iPad and iPhone and that’s when I lost all connection with them at all. So I tried to connect them to a phone that I have never connected them to before (because I read that if someone finds your AirPods they can just reset them and use them as their own - if stolen for example) and they won’t even show up as a device for a phone that’s never been connected to them. I’m fully convinced that one of the AirPods isn’t mine, but if they’ve been factory reset, surely they’d show up on a new device? I’m really confused haha.
So sorry for the long story, I was wondering if anyone had any tips to get them to connect before I have to purchase new ones 🙃
I dunno if this helps, but when I thought they were lost I put them on ‘lost device’ so I’m not sure if that had anything to do with it.
I hope this all makes sense. TIA