How to Fix Airpod 3 Mic Not Working After Update

If your Airpods Mic Not Working After Update and when you speak with airpods mic people cant hear your voice or airpods 3 low volume and airpods one side ear working and or Airpods pausing randomly and disconnecting or any other issue with airpods 3 microphone can be fixed easily. So, lets see in detail below.

Many Airpods 3 users experienced the issue of Mic not working on Airpods after they have updated their Airpods firmware to the latest version or iPhone and this issue with airpods mic or any other issue with airpods can be resolved and get back your mic working on Airpods 3.

Fix Airpod 3 Mic Not Working After Update

Below airpods 3 troubleshooting method will help you get back your airpods 3 microphone working on your iPhone.

Check Battery on Airpods 3

If you are not having enough battery on one airpod and for other airpod you are having battery athen microphone will not work properly and you need to have enough battery on both the airpods.

Step 1: Grab your airpods case and open it.

Step 2: Now, any one of the airpod from airpods case and on your iPhone it will show you the battery percentage of each airpod that you are having.

Step 3: If you are having less battery on one airpod or left airpod is having less battery than right airpod then go ahead and charge airpods by placing them into your airpods case.

That;s it, once you charge airpod 3 to 100 percent then go ahead and check with mic of airpods 3 and your issue of airpods mic not working after update will be resolved if charging is the problem.

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Change Call Audio Routing Settings to Bluetooth Headset

Step 1: Connect your airpods to your iPhone

Step 2: Open settings on your iPhone

Step 3: Scroll down and tap on Accessibility.

Step 4: Tap on Touch 

Step 5: Scroll down and tap on Call audio Routing

Step 6: Tap on Bluetooth Headset.

Once you change these call audio routing settings to headphones then your airpods mic not working issue will be resolved and your airpods microphone will be working fine when you are answering calls and speaking to someone on your iPhone.

Headphone Accommodation

Step 1: Tap on Settings on your iPhone

Step 2: Tap on Accessibility option

Step 3: Scroll down and tap on Airpods

Step 4: Scroll down to bottom and tap on Audio Accessibility Settings

Step 5: Tap on Headphone Accommodations

Step 6: Toggle the button next to headphone accommodation and turn off.

Change Call Audio to Airpods When You Are on Call

Sometimes airpods will automatically gets disconnecting due to many reasons and may people who have updated their iPhone to latest version or update airpods have experienced this issue and when you are speaking to someone on your Phone and your call audio is not set to airpods and it is set to phone instead of airpods then you will not get to hear and other person will not hear what you are saying as sound is not coming from airpods but it is coming from Phone.

So, when you are on call -> tap on Audio and change it to Airpods and tap on it and then speak and hear from airpods when you are on call.

Reset Airpods 3

If none of the above solutions works then you need to reset your airpods and fix this issue of airpods mic not working after update.

Step 1: Grab your airpods case and press and hold the power button on back of your airpods case

Step 2: Release the power button when the color of white light changes to orange color.

Step 3: Now, release the power button once you see orange light and let airpods 3 complete the reset process.

Step 4: On your iPhone you will see connect option -> Now, go ahead and connect your airpods 3 to iPhone.

Once you reset your airpods 3 and restore its settings to original factory default settings of airpods then your issue of airpods 3 mic not working or any other issue with airpods microphone will be resolved successfully.