Connecting AirPods - how to do it

Before you can use your AirPods to listen to music and make phone calls, it is necessary to connect them to your iPhone. What are the requirements for connecting AirPods and how exactly you connect the Apple headphones, we explain in this guide.

Connecting AirPods: These requirements exist

Apple's AirPods can be wirelessly connected to both iPhone and iPad, as well as iPod, Mac or an Apple Watch. For pairing to be successful, it's important to make sure your device is running the latest software version. Regardless of whether you are using AirPods Pro, 1st or 2nd generation AirPods, you will need at least iOS 10, watchOS 3 or a Mac with macOS Sierra as the operating system.

This is how you connect your AirPods

If the requirements to connect the AirPods with your other Apple device are met, please follow the steps below to pair the Apple headphones.

1. Go to the Home screen of your iPhone and open the case by which the AirPods are located.
2. Now hold the case with the AirPods very close to the iPhone and wait until a graphic for the setup appears on the display of the mobile device.
3. Now tap in the displayed graphic first on "Connect" and then on "Done" to complete the pairing of the devices.
4. Nutzen Sie die AirPods Pro oder die AirPods der 2. Generation, können Sie während des Kopplungsvorgangs zusätzlich die Nutzung von „Hey Siri“ einrichten.