How To Test AirPods Battery Ranges On An Android Cellphone

As an Apple product, AirPods work seamlessly together with your iPhone and iPad. In truth, it is so clean that you will get a immediate to attach as quickly as you flip your Bluetooth on and open the AirPods case close to your cell machine. Utilizing AirPods with Apple merchandise additionally means you get entry to unique options like voice isolation, reside pay attention audio, automated switching, and, after all, Siri.

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Arguably, one of many standout Apple-exclusive options of AirPods is its battery degree indicator. It is significantly helpful since you need not set up something or navigate by means of winding menus simply to see how lengthy your AirPods will final. Merely open the case, and the cost standing of your AirPods and case ought to pop proper up in your display. If you wish to see a person AirPod’s battery proportion, you possibly can simply take one out of the case. 

Sadly, you do not get this handy performance when utilizing your AirPods with an Android machine, however there are workarounds to verify your AirPods battery degree on Android. We’ll present you two methods to take action utilizing third-party apps.

MaterialPods is a well-liked third-party AirPods companion app for Android. Identical to on iPhones, it reveals a pop-up animation with the AirPods’ battery ranges each time you open the case close to your telephone. 

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This is the right way to arrange MaterialPods in your Android machine:

1. Set up MaterialPods from the Google Play Retailer.
2. Launch the app.
3. Grant the app permission to make use of your location (solely used for Bluetooth LE scanning), draw over different apps, and at all times run within the background.
4. Pair your AirPods together with your Android telephone:
   1. Flip in your telephone’s Bluetooth if you have not already.
   2. Go to the Bluetooth setting by merely long-pressing on the Bluetooth icon within the Fast Settings menu or navigating to Settings > Connections > Bluetooth.
   3. Choose Pair new machine.
   4. Open the lid of the AirPods case with each AirPods inside.
   5. Lengthy-press the button in your case till the standing gentle begins blinking white. The AirPods ought to now seem in your telephone.
   6. Faucet on AirPods beneath the Obtainable units.
   7. Choose Pair within the popup to complete pairing.
5. Return to MaterialPods.
6. Press AirPods on the house display. Should you do not see a pop-up, you is perhaps utilizing pretend AirPods. MaterialPods solely works with real Apple units. You’ll be able to inform in case your AirPods are pretend by inputting their serial quantity on Apple’s machine’s protection web site.
7. Select your AirPods mannequin and most well-liked popup animation from the out there choices.
8. Along with your telephone’s Bluetooth nonetheless enabled, open the AirPods subsequent to the telephone once more.

Your AirPods ought to robotically connect with your Android machine, and the MaterialPods battery degree popup will seem, telling you the present battery proportion of your case and AirPods. In case your AirPods do not pair together with your telephone robotically, you may have to take away them from any Apple machine you’ve got beforehand linked to, then reset your AirPods by urgent and holding on the button whereas the case is open.

Should you’re not a fan of the AirPods popup animation and like to verify battery ranges manually, attempt CAPod as an alternative. As a substitute of an automated popup, this ad-free, open-source app reveals your AirPods’ battery ranges each in-app and within the notification bar. CAPod works with AirPods Gen 1 to three, AirPods Professional Gen 1, AirPods Professional Gen 2, AirPods Professional Gen 2 (USB-C), and AirPods Max, together with pretend variations of the wi-fi earbuds. 

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Comply with these steps to make use of CAPod to verify your AirPods’ battery ranges on Android:

1. Join your AirPods to your Android telephone by way of Bluetooth:
   1. Navigate to Settings > Connections > Bluetooth.
   2. Choose Pair new machine.
   3. Open the AirPods case whereas the earbuds are inside.
   4. Push and maintain the button on the case to enter pairing mode.
   5. Again in your Android, press AirPods to begin pairing.
   6. Choose Pair to verify.
2. Obtain and open CAPod from the Google Play Retailer.
3. On the welcome display, press Proceed.
4. Choose Grant permission to offer CAPod entry to your location.
5. Maintain the AirPods near your telephone.
6. Open the AirPods case once more.

CAPod will then show the AirPods’ data, together with the person battery ranges of the person AirPods and case, whether or not the AirPods elements are charging, whether or not the AirPods are in-ear, and what mode the AirPods are in. Within the notification bar, you may additionally see the battery ranges of all AirPods elements. Should you see a couple of AirPods within the CAPod house display, it means it is choosing up different energetic AirPods in your speedy space. Nevertheless, you may see a “Yours” tag within the data part of your AirPods, which means it is the closest one to your telephone.