How To Track Your AirPods Using iOS Find My Airpods Feature

Apple recently updated its Find My iPhone app to add the Find My AirPods feature in its iOS 10.3 Beta 1 update. Users will now be able to track the company’s wireless AirPods using the feature.

The AirPods’ peculiar design makes them just hang from the users’ earlobes without any wired/in-ear support, which makes it easy to drop or lose one, or both, of them.

If you own a pair, here’s how to track your AirPods if you lose them using the Find My AirPods feature. Before you read the how-to guide, it is essential to know that the feature will work only if you have Bluetooth switched on and the AirPods are within the range of the Bluetooth connection — 10 metres for Class 2 devices such as the iPhone, according to Bluetooth SIG.

First, your iPhone will need to have the iOS 10.3 Beta 1 software update installed. Doing that will add the Find My AirPods feature to your iPhone’s Find My iPhone app.

Once linked with your iPhone, the AirPods will show up under the list of devices linked to your iCloud account. You will need to tap on this listing to see the current/last known location of your device. This will bring up a screen that will show the location of your AirPods on a map with a ‘Play Sound’ option at the bottom. Tapping on this option will start processing your request. Once that is done, any AirPod outside the charging case will start emitting a sound which will progressively get louder as you move closer to it.

Next, three options will show up on the device — ‘Mute Left’, ‘Mute Right’ and ‘Stop Playing’.

In case both your AirPods are in different locations, you can mute one so that you are not confused between sounds coming from different directions.

Once you have found both the AirPods, you can tap ‘Stop Playing’ to stop the sound.

Additional support for AirPods can be found on iCloud.com/find.