How to connect two AirPods to one iPhone or iPad and share audio

(Pocket-lint) - If you're looking to link 2 pairs of AirPods to the aforesaid iPhone oregon iPad, oregon temporarily link different brace of AirPods oregon Beats headphones and stock the aforesaid audio, you've travel to the close place. 

Whether you privation to ticker the aforesaid TV amusement connected the Apple TV app oregon Netflix, oregon you privation to perceive to the aforesaid playlist done Apple Music oregon Spotify, here's however to link 2 AirPods to the aforesaid iPhone oregon iPad and stock the audio.

What you volition need

To link 2 AirPods oregon Beats to the aforesaid iPhone oregon iPad, you'll request to marque definite you person a brace of compatible headphones and a compatible iPhone, iPad oregon iPod Touch.

Compatible iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches are: iPhone 8 oregon later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd gen) oregon later, iPad Pro 11-inch, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad mini (5th generation), iPad (5th generation) oregon later, iPod interaction (7th generation).

Compatible headphone models are: AirPods Max, AirPods Pro, AirPods (1st generation) oregon later, Powerbeats, Solo Pro, Powerbeats Pro, Powerbeats3 Wireless, Beats Solo3 Wireless, Beats Studio3 Wireless, BeatsX and Beats Flex.

How to link 2 pairs of AirPods to 1 iPhone oregon iPad

To link a 2nd brace of AirPods to your iPhone oregon iPad, you conscionable request to travel the aforesaid process arsenic you did to acceptable up the archetypal brace of AirPods connected to your device.

1. Go to the Home surface connected your iPhone oregon iPad.
2. Open the lawsuit of your AirPods oregon AirPods Pro / Take your AirPods Max retired of their Smart Case and clasp adjacent your instrumentality wrong 60 seconds.
3. A setup animation volition appear.
4. Tap 'Connect'
5. Read the screens and travel the instructions.
6. Tap 'Done'
7. Any devices signed into the aforesaid iCloud relationship volition spot the AirPods automatically setup.
8. If you unfastened your Bluetooth settings connected your iPhone, iPad oregon iPod Touch, you should spot some pairs of AirPods successful the list.

How to stock audio with AirPods and Beats headphones

To stock audio with AirPods oregon Beats headphones, travel the instructions below: 

1. Connect your AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max oregon Beats headphones to your iOS oregon iPadOS device.
2. Tap connected the AirPlay icon (triangle with circles above). You tin either spell to the Control Centre connected your iPhone oregon iPad for this, the Lock Screen oregon find it wrong the app you are listening to.
3. Tap 'Share Audio'.
4. If the different headphones you're sharing audio with are AirPods oregon Airpods Pro, bring them adjacent to your iPhone oregon iPad and unfastened the lid. You mightiness request to property and clasp the fastener connected the backmost of the case.
5. If the different headphones are AirPods Max, clasp them adjacent to your device. 
6. For Beats headphones, you'll request to enactment the Beats successful pairing mode and past clasp them adjacent to your device.
7. When the headphones look connected your surface successful the animated box, pat connected "Share Audio". You mightiness besides spot "Temporarily Share Audio" and "Connect to iPhone".

How to power measurement erstwhile sharing audio

When you're sharing audio betwixt 2 pairs of Airpods oregon Beats headphones, you tin power each brace separately. This means you tin alteration the volume, arsenic good arsenic play, intermission and halt audio individually utilizing the Lock Screen controls oregon the Control Centre controls.

You tin entree measurement controls successful the app you are listening to, arsenic good by tapping connected the AirPlay icon. If you property and clasp the measurement slider successful Control Centre, you volition spot some headphone measurement controls look connected the surface arsenic ample vertical bars.

To power the measurement of either acceptable of headphones, you'll request to resistance the measurement slider connected each pair, oregon usage the headphones themselves. For example, with AirPods Max you would crook the Digital Crown. If you usage either of these methods, lone that peculiar brace of headphones volition beryllium affected.

You tin besides resistance the measurement slider astatine the bottommost to power the measurement for some headphones.

How to halt sharing audio

To halt sharing audio with different brace of headphones, you conscionable request to pat the AirPlay icon successful the Control Centre connected your iPhone oregon iPad, the Lock Screen oregon successful the app you are listening to. 

Untick the brace of headphones you privation to halt sharing audio to. You'll disconnect the 2nd acceptable of headphones erstwhile you bash this.

Writing by Britta O'Boyle.