YourAirPodsaren’t only a great way to listen to music or other audio. You can also use them to talk to other people or to speak to Siri. It’s becauseyour AirPodshave built-in microphones that can pick up your voice when you’re speaking.
The majority of the time, these microphones do a great job, which lets you make calls when wearing your AirPods, or tospeak to Sirithrough the built-in microphones. Sometimes, though, you may find that the microphones won’t pick up your voice very well. If this is happening to you, there are a few things you can try. Here’s how to make your microphone louder on AirPods.
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1Set the default microphone on your AirPods
Decide which AirPod microphone to use
There is a microphone built into both of your AirPods. By default, your AirPods will automatically choose which microphone to use to get the best sound quality. However, if you’re having problems with your AirPods microphone sounding too quiet, you’re able to try manually selecting either the left or right AirPod to always be used as the microphone. If you try both options, you may find that the problem is withone of the AirPodsand not the other.
2Turn off noise cancellation on your AirPods
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Some users have found that turning offnoise cancellationon their AirPods has improved their microphone volume. If your AirPods have noise cancellation features, you can try turning noise cancellation off to see if this improves your microphone volume.
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3Check your AirPods battery
Low charge can affect your volume
Another reason why your AirPods microphone may have low volume is that your AirPods are low on battery. You can easilycheck the battery levelsfor your AirPods to ensure that this isn’t the reason that your AirPods microphone volume is low.
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4Clean your AirPods
Get rid of the gunk
Microphones on small devices such as AirPods can easily get gunked up. If the microphones get blocked up with dirt and debris, the volume levels will become significantly lower. You can try cleaning your AirPods to see if this fixes the problem.
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5Restart your AirPods
A quick restart may help
If your volume is still low, you’re able to try restarting your AirPods. Restarting your AirPods may fix the volume problem, but isn’t as drastic as resetting them to factory settings. You can reset both AirPods andAirPods Max.
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6Unpair and re-pair your AirPods
Pairing again my fix your problems
Unpairing your AirPods can also often fix problems you may be having. Try deletingyour AirPodsfrom your device and then pair them again to see if the volume improves.
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7Reset your AirPods
Restore to factory settings
If all else fails, you can tryresetting your AirPodsto see if this fixes the volume issues.
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