If you are a Spanish user, you may already be enjoying your AirPods, but we are clear that many are still waiting to be able to acquire them and that is that Apple itself puts the estimated arrival date of the next shipment within six weeks.
While you wait to buy some, you can read articles like this in which we explain how to connect them to a Mac.
One of the star features of AirPods is the simplicity with which we can use them by connecting almost immediately to any compatible Apple or Android device and is that the Airpods also work under Android.
In the case that concerns us in this blog, we want to show you how to connect them on your Mac. The first thing you should keep in mind is that you must have the appropriate system installed:
- iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iOS 10.2 or later.
- Apple Watch with watchOS 3 or later.
- Mac with macOS Sierra or later.
If you are going to connect your AirPods to your Mac without previously doing so on your iPhone, you have to open the lid of the charging box and then press the rear configuration button until the interior LED lights up white. At that moment when you go to the top bar of the Finder and click on the sound icon in the drop-down menu the AirPods will appear and when you select them, they will be paired not only to the Mac, but to all the devices on which you have your iCloud account started.
This is the great advantage of AirPods and it is that when you pair them on a device compatible with iCloud, you already have them paired to the rest of the devices. That is why if you first pair them with your iPhone, when you turn on the Mac and put on the headphones, you go to the sound icon in the top bar of the Finder and you will have them available there.
Finally, if you want to know the battery that each of the headphones has left as well as the container box, you must click on the Bluetooth icon in the top bar of the Finder and in the dropdown you have it available.
But can that be done with any iMac, for example?
I have one from 2010 and I can't get it. I think it must have bluetooth 4.0,
and mine has 2.1.
I have connected them to a 2008 iMac, but the sound level is not as desired (background noise is heard and the connection is lost on certain occasions). In the rest of the devices it is simple and they can be heard perfectly. To connect them to the iMac, I opened the Bluetooth preferences and pressed the back button of the case that the Airpods come in, and they linked in about 5 seconds.