hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I want to share with you five tips
for your air pods that you might not know recently I've been talking to some
people and they had some questions about their air pods and they didn't know some
of these features so I wanted to share them with you and if you know them
that's fine or maybe it's a refresher for you the fifth one in particular is
one I use all the time and many people still don't know what exists so the
first thing has to do with double tapping the air pods they actually have
a touch-sensitive outside layer here you can double tap it for different features
and those features can be customized now I already have one of them in my ears so
that it's activated but what we want to do is go on our iPhone go to settings
then go to bluetooth and under bluetooth tap the little eye next to your air pods
once they're connected you can modify these so you'll see double tap on air
pod left or right and we have a couple different options so we can change this
from Siri to play pause next track previous track or off and they can be
customized from left to right so if you want Siri on the left and play pause on
the right you can do that so we can just change this one to play pause on the
right or they'll just pause when you take them out of your ear or you can do
next track previous track either one you can choose whatever works best for you
and adjust accordingly the next tip has to do with using air pods with other
devices not just Apple devices but Android devices or other Bluetooth
devices you can use these with pretty much any Bluetooth device if you weren't
aware of that so what you need to do is just hold this button on the back you'll
see they're not paired here we'll hold the button we'll just keep holding it
down and you'll see over here if I bring my pixel phone over we can pair them to
this device so you can pair it to an Android device they're connected and now
they're active so now I can use it with this device using it for music you just
won't get all the features you do with the iPhone now I have these paired to my
iPhone again and one of the tips I recently told someone they didn't
realize is that you can find these if you lose them there under find my phone
so let me show you how that works so we'll go into Find My iPhone you'll see
it's right here I'll tap on the device now you can see it
found my device I just have it hidden on the map here and what we can do is tap
on this and get some different actions we'll tap on it and then we have the
option to actually play a sound so we can play a sound to locate it and then
locate our device if we've lost it so we have a general idea where it is and then
it will just play a sound so we can find it and the other thing is once they've
been found it tells you that they've been found nearby so it should be good
to go there now the next feature is something many people are really excited
about when they first announced it and this is called live listen and what live
listen allows you to do is use your iPhone to listen remotely using your ear
pods so they have to be within about 30 feet or so but what you need to do is
add it to control center so if you don't have it in control center already it'll
be a little ear here so we need to go into settings we'll go back here we'll
go to control center then we'll customize the controls then we're going
to scroll down until we find hearing and if we've got hearing we tap Add you'll
see it's added there now if we go into the control center we've got a little
ear if we 3d press or tap on it it pops up and it says I'm available for current
route however if I take these out of here maybe you put one in my ear you'll
see it says live listen off and all I need to do is turn that on and now I can
hear myself through my air pot so you can set this in the distance maybe
you're at a classroom or you're trying to hear someone in the distance speak
you can use this to listen to them and now it won't work from a mile away or
anything like that but it's helpful in a classroom setting I think that's what
the idea was with this or if you're trying to hear someone in a crowd and
you want to hear what they're saying right next to them so you could just
place this next to them and listen in now the last tip is something I use all
the time and it's a little bit more recent for me so let me go over to my
Apple TV so now I have the remote for the Apple TV and you can do one of two
things here you can hold the play button down let me hold it down and you'll see
we immediately get where we're recording from but also we can change where the
speakers are being projected to so maybe I want the Apple TV to move over to my
air pods so that I can hear it and know else so maybe you want to watch a movie
late at night you don't want everybody to be able to hear you can do that so
let's do this here and now you can adjust the volume and everything else or
you can change this setting within settings itself so go to settings go to
video & audio then you can go down to audio output and then select air pots
you can also do this with an a home pod as well or you can see Mac Mini or HDMI
so whatever you have selected it will use and I use this all the time late at
night when my kids are trying to sleep and I want to watch whatever TV show so
it's very very helpful and something I use all the time now one final tip is
more about keeping these from getting lost to begin with and that's to use a
case I didn't know until recently that they actually made cases for air pods in
fact when I was at CES this year catalyst had them and they were nice
enough to just give this to me it's not sponsored or anything but I thought it
was kind of neat and maybe I was ignorant to it but I just didn't realize
there were cases for them so this keeps it waterproof slide this in there's a
little bit of air in there but in the bottom here you can see it's a little
bit difficult to slide in but they're not coming out so in the bottom you'll
see you've got access to a port it keeps them waterproof when that sealed and
then if you want to use your air pods you just fold this down like this and
then open it up and you're good to go and then you can link it to whatever you
like or clip it to whatever you'd like and you won't lose it so I'll link that
in the description I thought it was kind of neat and just wanted to share that
with you but let me know what you think in the comments below I'll leave a link
to the wallpaper in the description thanks to the Twitter follower that
actually sent this to me and also created this exclusively for this video
so it's evgeniy zoom Elko if I pronounced that wrong I'm sorry but I'll
link that in the description he was nice enough to create this just for the video
and I'm really appreciative of that so be sure to check him out and follow him
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I'll see you next time