How To Check Airpods Battery Without Case

Airpods are well designed and widely used wireless earbuds made by Apple. It allows users to listen to favorite music, read messages and so much more. Since it is wireless, with daily use it will eventually run out of juice and you have to recharge it again. But how will you know how much battery is left before you charge it. There are so many ways to check your airpods battery life anytime using different devices. Lucky for you, we will be discussing it in this post.

Light indicators explained:

Before we go through the different ways to check your airpods battery life using different devices, did you know that you can also check battery according to the light indicator on the charging case. If you noticed, Airpod is designed with a dot sized light indicator, it is actually a battery indicator on the device. There are 3 different status light indicator colors that indicates different mode of airpods battery level.: Green, Yellow and No light. Check it out below:

• Green light: If the charging case shows a green means fully charged battery level for case charges is still between 80 to 100%.
• Yellow Light: If you see light shows yellow, it means the charges has 50% left or even less
• No light: Airpods run of of juice, a recharge must be done.

Keep in mind that the status light indicator only shows the charging case charges, and not exactly the Airpods battery.

Check Airpods Battery Without Case

Check Airpod battery life on iPhone/ iPad device

To check the battery life o your Airpods on an iPhone or iPad device, there are 3 ways to do that: Automatic pop up feature, battery widget and Siri

Automatic pop up feature

This is a very common way to check your airpods battery level. This involves the iPhone or iPad that the airpods is connected or paired to. The pop up feature will display the name of the Airpod (usually owner’s name) and how much battery life in percentage is left for both earbuds (left and right) as well as the battery status of its charging case (charge remains)

To do this:

1. Have at hand the iPhone or iPad the airpod is connected to.
2. Make sure Bluetooth is turned on. To check if Bluetooth status, open Control Center. You can do this by swiping down starting from the top right corner of the screen.
3. Check if Bluetooth icon is highlighted in Blue, it means it is turned ON. If not, tap the bluetooth icon to turn it ON.
4. On your Airpod, open its charging case. Make sure both your airpods are inside the airpods case. Hold airpods on charging case near the iPhone or iPad.
5. A pop up will appear on the iOs device that shows airpod battery life. (both your Airpods and battery status of charging case)

Check Battery life of Airpod using Batteries Widget

A Widget, is a feature on iOS devices that allows you easily check at a glance favorite apps on your iPhone such as battery level, weather, world clock and so much more. To check battery life of Airpod anytime, add batteries widget to your home screen.

This method is actually the most preferred method of users as it does not require you to open the charging case, but can still check battery status of airpods inside the charging case.

To add batteries widget, follow the steps below:

1. Tap and hold using your finger anywhere on the home screen of your iOS device. The apps will begin to shake
2. Tap on the “+” (Plus icon) sign located at the upper left. For older iOs models, “+” sign is located at the upper right.
3. Scroll down and locate batteries and then tap on it.
4. Select by swiping to the left or to the right the status of the battery widget.
5. Tap Add Widget option.
6. Choose where you want to place the widget on your iPhone screen (either for lock screen widgets) then tap Done.

That’s it. When you already have battery widget on the screen of your iPhone, you can easily check the battery life percentage of your airpod and the battery percentage of other devices connected to your iPhone such as an Apple watch and the battery percentage left of your iPhone or iPad device too.

Check Battery life of Airpod using Siri

Another easy way to check your airpod battery life is by asking Siri, your very own virtual personal assistant designed for iOS devices. You can basically ask Siri anything and will translate questions such as finding a location, weather reports, call someone on your contacts and can even compose text message by following your voice.

Most iOS users rely mostly on Siri for asks to make life easier We are already accustomed to asking Siri questions, making siri do things and a lot more.

To activate Siri, you can simply say the words “Hey siri” and then add on your task or question. An alternative way to activate Siri is by pressing and holding the home buttons (for iOS models with home buttons)

To check battery status of airpod using siri, you can simply ask siri questions such as “How much battery life do my Airpods have?” or you can ask “What is the Airpod’s Battery level?”.

When using Siri to ask battery life, you can also do so even when both airpods are not inside airpods case such as when you are using it. You can hear Siri result on airpods battery life directly on your airpod.

Check Battery life of Airpod on Mac

To check your airpods battery life on Mac, is similar to checking the Bluetooth settings. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Connect Apple airpods to Mac device
2. Open Mac Control center
3. Click Bluetooth option. Navigate to locate your Airpods from the drop down menu. You will see on the screen the charge percentage for both your airpods (left and right) as well as its airpods case.

Check Airpod battery Life on Android phone

You can connect Airpod to an Android phones but the features are limited such as not being able to activate siri and not being able manually check your airpod battery levels. However though, there are third party apps that you can install and download that allows you to check Airpods battery life using your Androide device. Though the method will only work on certain earbuds model as follows: Airpod Gen 1 and Gen 2, Airpod Pro, Powerbeats Pro, Powerbeat 3, Beats SOlo3, BeatX, Beats Solo 3 and Beats Studio 3.

Frequently Asked Questions

Final Thoughts

It is very simple and easy to check your airpods battery charge status in apple devices and Android even without the use of airpods charging case because Apple designed the earbuds to be easily checked.

Taking care of airpods battery is very important so that you can continue what the features of the earbuds has to offer.

From the list of methods mentioned, which method you like the most. Let us know what you think.