Mastering Your AirPods-- Tips and Tricks

Mastering

your

AirPods, today at Dotto Tech. Steve Dotto here. How the hell are you doing this good day? At Dotto Tech, we make technology easy so you can do more. More than? Well, one thing I wouldn't recommend you do anymore is wander around with

your

nose in your phone, texting. You are a danger to yourself and others. Get your nose out of the phone, stop texting. Here's a suggestion, maybe you should consider it and they said: wear headphones and just listen to a podcast, listen to some music while you walk and keep your eyes on the environment around you.

Let's talk today about Apple AirPods. Alright. I've never demoed headphones before, so this is something unique to me. When I first bought it, my first thought was that the case was a marvel of industrial design. It's something you just want to get your hands on. And your first impression when you buy the AirPods, when you first pair them with your phone, you'll be delighted because look what happens. I have my phone on here. When you open the case and have Bluetooth enabled on your phone, when you open the case near a phone, it automatically identifies and connects between the AirPods and the phone.

Now, when it hasn't connected, like mine already did, when it hasn't paired, this will say, "Do you want to pair it with this device?" And you can go through the matchmaking process at that point. But just opening the lid of your case allows that to happen. It's a really cool thing to happen. Now, at any time afterward, once they're connected, when you open it, it will give you information about what the battery charge is on both your AirPods and your case. As you see, my cases are at 52% and my AirPods are at 100%. The case also acts as a charging case, of course, when you're traveling with it. he.

Now, another way to check the battery level of your AirPods is to simply swipe right and then scroll down, and you'll get battery information for all your different Bluetooth-connected devices. There's my watch at 25%, my AirPods, etc., and my case itself. Now, while I'm talking about the clock, I'll just lightly touch the clock. I'm not doing a lot of this on the watch because the watch is integrated with AirPods, Apple promotes it and it's pretty good, but it's not my cup of tea, and here's why. It's pretty easy for you to download some songs to your Apple Watch and then control them...

And then you could say, go for a run with just your watch and your AirPods. That works well and people are doing it. I don't do that because I don't listen to music and I don't run. When I go for a walk, I listen to podcasts. It's really frustrating because I didn't find an easy way to load my podcasts on my smartphone and then just walk around with my AirPods and my phone, and that was one of the things I was hoping for. The biggest disappointment I've had with the AirPods was the fact that I can't load my podcasts.

I hope that happens in a next revolution. I really want to have that ability. Well, right now. I want to talk a little bit about how to control your AirPods. They don't have much control. For example, one of the things that the AirPods don't have is that they don't have the ability to control the volume as you say, on the connected headphones, which is a really nice feature. But you already know the buttons you have on the connected headset, we can replace some of those buttons on the AirPods, and we do it by double-tapping on one ear or the other.

It sounds like you're being a little abusive, because you actually have to tap the AirPod to your ear to invoke commands. There are a limited number of commands you can invoke, but let me show you exactly what they are. Let's jump in and you'll go to the Bluetooth settings, and when the AirPods are connected, you can go in and set what the double tap does on each one, on the left or right ear. And? There are four commands you can invoke and you can execute them on either ear. You can configure it according to your preferences.

You can summon Siri, which is really useful. You can play or pause whatever you're listening to, which is what I use the most. While I'm walking listening to a podcast, which is what I normally do when I'm walking, if someone talks to me or I want to stop listening for a moment, I double-tap and the podcast pauses. and I tap twice and it starts playing it again. You can also skip to the next track or the previous track. You have some basic navigation, but as I say, there are no volume settings, it's actually quite limited in what you can do.

But that's the nature of something as simple and clean as a device. Now also, if we take a look here, it has something called automatic ear detection, and what it does is if you take off one earbud, it will pause whatever you're playing and it will know when it's on. It's location-aware, as far as location is concerned, if it's where it's supposed to be for you to hear, it knows when it's there and will then automatically transfer any audio signal from your phone to the AirPods. This tends to work probably about 95% of the time. Sometimes it doesn't and you have to do things manually, but for the most part it works.

It works very well. Now, there is another convenience factor that Apple has incorporated. If you think about the nature of wanting to keep your phone in your bag or in your pocket, and not having it, but having all the benefits of the phone by having completely wireless headphones, the only thing we lose is caller ID. I don't know about you, but I review every call I receive. I want to take a look and see if I want to talk to the person. Now if my phone is in my pocket it defeats the purpose of caller ID, if I can't see who is calling and I have to dig out the phone which defeats the purpose of these wonderful wireless headphones.

However, they've got it covered and it's pretty clever. If you go down to your phone settings, you need to scroll down to the phone settings, there you can choose a feature called announced calls. You see it? Yes. You can choose to have Caller ID announced audibly through your headset if you use this setting. You can choose to only have it on your headphones, headphones in the car, which is another time you might want that, or never. If you set it up, there is a caveat: it will only work if the caller's number is in your address book.

If it's an unknown caller, it will just say unknown caller, so you won't know who it is, but that's what it would be anyway, if you're looking at your caller ID. Anything that appears on the caller ID screen will be announced audibly in your ear, which is great. Now here is an additional unique or very valuable asset. If you lose your AirPods... If you lose them, it's easy to lose them. But if you just misplaced them somewhere in your house, you can use the Find My iPhone feature built into IOS to find your AirPods. First, it will physically tell you where they are nearby and then watch what you can do.

If you click on them, you can ask them to play a sound. Now, it's not very loud, but they'll start beeping here, in a moment here. I'll let you hear it, but it's not very loud, but it's loud enough that if they're under a cushion, or in your bag, or in your pocket and you can't see them, you can hear them. the sound emanating from these speakers to help you find said AirPods. Because at the end of the day, you don't want to lose these things. They are very expensive. I'm actually kind of proud of myself because one of the things I was most worried about when I bought them was losing them.

So let's see, is it going to work? There is. It has a small error. Please let's go. Ah, there it is. You hear it? Unfortunately, it sounds like a little cricket chirping. Oh, there it is, squeaking. Now, will that be strong enough for you to find? In fact, it's getting a little louder. It's not that bad. Oh, when the lid is closed, it's pretty quiet, but when the lid is open, it's pretty good. If you just drop one somewhere, that should help you find it, and you can choose to mute one side or the other, if you say, you have one, but you want to mute one, then you can play it on the other. one.

I can turn it off for now. Okay, stop playing, stop. Here we go. For. So good. There is. We have the AirPods in Find my iPhone, a little extra useful information for you. Now I have to admit that I really like my AirPods. I find them to be a very convenient and elegant implementation, and the industrial design that has gone into the case and how it interacts with the mobile operating system is a thing of beauty. As for the geek in me, he is more than impressed with the implementation Apple has done with the AirPods. And since these cost over $200 in Canada, I've kept them safe.

In fact, I'll leave a Lincoln, you can disguise your case to look like a Tic Tac case, or to make it look like a peppermint case, to discourage people from stealing it, I guess, if it's sitting in their car seat or something like this, because he wants to protect them as best he can. Of course, things like finding my AirPods in Find My iPhone help in that regard. But as much as I like them, they are fantastic headphones for home, for being at home, for going for a walk, for my normal daily life at home and in the city.

These are not good headphones for traveling. They are not great headphones for airplanes. Because? Because they are too quiet. When I got on a plane, and even when the plane is quiet and you are cruising at high altitude, the cabin noise is too loud to use them comfortably. I find them too quiet. I have a favorite pair of headphones for that particular purpose, and they're also a pretty expensive pair of headphones, but they do a lot of other things. These are the Bose noise canceling headphones I have. I'll also link to these below. These are a completely different animal.

They're wired, they plug in, they have a small battery and a power system that actually cancels out noise from whatever environment you're in. What it does is cancel out low and low levels. Persistent noise, like it's perfect for airplane use or if you're in transit. It doesn't eliminate people talking to you or choppy noises, so you can still hear someone talking to you. But you can see, it's very molded. They have a whole series of different headphones that sit and fit very well in your ear. And when you turn on noise cancellation, it does a wonderful job of canceling out all the noise around you.

I love these, especially on long flights. I sleep with them, I listen to music. I use them all the time, but they are headphones that I usually use when I travel. When I'm at home, the convenience of Apple AirPods prevails. I am well equipped when it comes to headphones. I guess I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to my headphones. I hope you found today's video useful and if so, please subscribe to this channel and be sure to hit the notification bell. And any comments you have, put them in the comments here on YouTube.

I promise, I read every single comment, so I'd love to hear suggestions for future videos or your opinion on the best headphones for you. Until next time, I'm Steve Dotto. Have fun attacking the castle.