Not sure whats going on, I open the case with the buds in hold down the button and put it in pairing. The Steam Deck sees it but won’t pair with it. Idk what’s going on. I have reset it, disconnected it from the iPhone, idk what else to try. Desktop mode and Game mode won’t pair :-/
I have a similar issue with a pair of bone conduction headphones I have. Often (maybe every couple of days) I have to go to desktop mode, go into the Bluetooth manager, tell it to completely forget the headphones, and then repair them. That consistently works with mine, but I have no idea if it’ll help with air pods.
I had the same issue with mine, also in an airport. I ended up renaming them from my iPhone and was then able to pair them.
Edit to add: I thought pairing them from desktop mode may give me better luck, but it actually made things worse for some reason. Even after renaming them, I wasn’t able to pair them in desktop mode. Immediately after switching back to gaming mode, I was able to pair them.
It won’t help you on this trip, but for anyone else reading this, you can get decent wired earbuds for $30. They’re a good thing to carry with you (along with a USB c to 3.5mm dongle) for situations like this.
Restart the Steam deck.
Disable bluetooth on your iPhone just in case it is connecting to the headset while you are trying to pair.
Then try to pair it again.
Every time I end up with a finicky bluetooth pairing process, I turn off bluetooth on all devices other than the one I’m trying to pair to. Usually fixes any problem.
On some Linux distros you need to edit /etc/bluetooth/main controller mode and change it to bredr to pair, then restart bluetooth, then change it back to dual and restart it again and it should work.
I’ve never used a steam deck, but I know SteamOS runs linux. If you have the terminal easily available, try:
sudo systemctl restart bluetooth.service (might be bluetoothd.service)
If that doesn’t work, this almost always resolves my bluetooth issues:
rmmod btusb
rmmod btintel
modprobe btusb
modprobe btintel
If none of that works, your bluetooth card could be disabled due to static discharge, in which case you should hold power button / hard shut down, unplug charger, boot again, plug in charger again.
These are only issues ive encountered on the Linux end. I would recommend troubleshooting the airpods by tapping the “i” button next to them and forgetting them, then attempting to pair with the Steam Deck
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Delete the buds and fully “re-pair” it. That fixes 99% of all BT issues I’ve ever had.
I have a similar issue with a pair of bone conduction headphones I have. Often (maybe every couple of days) I have to go to desktop mode, go into the Bluetooth manager, tell it to completely forget the headphones, and then repair them. That consistently works with mine, but I have no idea if it’ll help with air pods.
I had the same issue with mine, also in an airport. I ended up renaming them from my iPhone and was then able to pair them.
Edit to add: I thought pairing them from desktop mode may give me better luck, but it actually made things worse for some reason. Even after renaming them, I wasn’t able to pair them in desktop mode. Immediately after switching back to gaming mode, I was able to pair them.
It won’t help you on this trip, but for anyone else reading this, you can get decent wired earbuds for $30. They’re a good thing to carry with you (along with a USB c to 3.5mm dongle) for situations like this.
That wouldn’t work very well on a plane without some sort of active noise cancellation
That’s not true at all. You can get fantastic passive isolation from good sealing earbuds.
When I have a Bluetooth controller that won’t connect, deleting the pairing and the repairing it works. Maybe that would work here?
Hope next time I’m on a plane my Bose 700s work
Restart the Steam deck. Disable bluetooth on your iPhone just in case it is connecting to the headset while you are trying to pair. Then try to pair it again.
Every time I end up with a finicky bluetooth pairing process, I turn off bluetooth on all devices other than the one I’m trying to pair to. Usually fixes any problem.
I wish most BT devices supported being booted from a connection to connect to another so long as its a recognized device.
Playing “guess which device is connected to what” when you just want to quickly use a BT device is a pain in the ass
Download trombone champ and blast at full volume. You won’t need headphones and everyone will love you.
On some Linux distros you need to edit /etc/bluetooth/main controller mode and change it to bredr to pair, then restart bluetooth, then change it back to dual and restart it again and it should work.
I’ve never used a steam deck, but I know SteamOS runs linux. If you have the terminal easily available, try:
sudo systemctl restart bluetooth.service (might be bluetoothd.service)
If that doesn’t work, this almost always resolves my bluetooth issues:
rmmod btusb
rmmod btintel
modprobe btusb
modprobe btintel
If none of that works, your bluetooth card could be disabled due to static discharge, in which case you should hold power button / hard shut down, unplug charger, boot again, plug in charger again.
These are only issues ive encountered on the Linux end. I would recommend troubleshooting the airpods by tapping the “i” button next to them and forgetting them, then attempting to pair with the Steam Deck