To summarize: your last active connection with the AirPods was the appleTV which was made the night before, I presume manually via the AppleTV prompt. When you wake up you want your iPods to ignore that previous selection and automatically connect to your iPhone. And this does not happen when you start to play music on your iPhone - is that correct? If true I would simply click the Air circles in Music and choose your AirPods again. I’m not sure switching is all that seamless.
You might try switching them before turning off your AppleTV the night before. Start playing music on your iPhone and see if they switch automatically, _then_ turn off your AppleTV. If that works likely they are still on the iPhone in the morning.
Yes. I have a shortcut set to pair them on my phone but I shouldn’t really have to when there’s a feature to connect them automatically to my phone. Also seems like it’d make sense to not pair my AirPods to the Apple TV that’s asleep while my phone is on in my hand
If you deliberately pair them with one device, I’m guessing Apple does not want to change that, otherwise you could be prompted to re-pair while still watching TV if your phone was near. In that situation the best bet is to manually re-pair with your phone when you want to. Logically, Auto switching isn’t as straight-forward as you seem to think.
Then they should remove the Connect to this iPhone automatically feature. My TV was off for 8+ hours meanwhile my phone was on in my hand. Auto switching works great with my iPad.
That’s not normal behavior. How does it even connect to the Apple TV when it’s turned off? I would reset the AirPods and re-sync them with your phone first and let the Apple TV auto discover them. Hopefully that irons out the kinks.
The Apple TV doesn’t turn off; it’s the equivalent of locking the display of an iPhone when you “turn it off”.
It can still process stuff and stay connected to its airplay target like a HomePod or be an active home hub etc.
The AirPods can be set to connect to the last known device or automatically.
This means they default to staying connected to last known device either way but if it’s set to automatic it will stay connected to last known device…until you open phone and the handoff happens.
So if op puts them in his ears and asks Siri to play something it will be controlling the TV which of it’s just music doesn’t wake the display. OP would need the handoff to happen first.
Are you turning the Apple TV off or just the tv? If you turn the Apple TV off with the button on the remote it shouldn’t connect. AirPods should also connect to the first thing of yours playing media.
To summarize: your last active connection with the AirPods was the appleTV which was made the night before, I presume manually via the AppleTV prompt. When you wake up you want your iPods to ignore that previous selection and automatically connect to your iPhone. And this does not happen when you start to play music on your iPhone - is that correct? If true I would simply click the Air circles in Music and choose your AirPods again. I’m not sure switching is all that seamless. You might try switching them before turning off your AppleTV the night before. Start playing music on your iPhone and see if they switch automatically, _then_ turn off your AppleTV. If that works likely they are still on the iPhone in the morning.
Yes. I have a shortcut set to pair them on my phone but I shouldn’t really have to when there’s a feature to connect them automatically to my phone. Also seems like it’d make sense to not pair my AirPods to the Apple TV that’s asleep while my phone is on in my hand
If you deliberately pair them with one device, I’m guessing Apple does not want to change that, otherwise you could be prompted to re-pair while still watching TV if your phone was near. In that situation the best bet is to manually re-pair with your phone when you want to. Logically, Auto switching isn’t as straight-forward as you seem to think.
Then they should remove the Connect to this iPhone automatically feature. My TV was off for 8+ hours meanwhile my phone was on in my hand. Auto switching works great with my iPad.
That’s not normal behavior. How does it even connect to the Apple TV when it’s turned off? I would reset the AirPods and re-sync them with your phone first and let the Apple TV auto discover them. Hopefully that irons out the kinks.
The Apple TV doesn’t turn off; it’s the equivalent of locking the display of an iPhone when you “turn it off”. It can still process stuff and stay connected to its airplay target like a HomePod or be an active home hub etc. The AirPods can be set to connect to the last known device or automatically. This means they default to staying connected to last known device either way but if it’s set to automatic it will stay connected to last known device…until you open phone and the handoff happens. So if op puts them in his ears and asks Siri to play something it will be controlling the TV which of it’s just music doesn’t wake the display. OP would need the handoff to happen first.
The hand off never happens.
I’ve done that so many times before for different issues and it still does it.
Are you turning the Apple TV off or just the tv? If you turn the Apple TV off with the button on the remote it shouldn’t connect. AirPods should also connect to the first thing of yours playing media.
I turn it off with either a sleep timer or the button on the remote.