The entire concept of getting wi-fi earbuds is that you simply both preserve them in your ears or safely tucked away of their charging case. That’s no completely different with the Google Pixel Buds Pro, so what do you do when one or each go lacking?
Google moved to deal with this in a few methods, and you might not even understand these strategies have been already arrange for you from the time you first paired them along with your telephone.
How to find each — or only one — of the Pixel Buds Pro earbuds
The Pixel Buds Pro use Google’s Fast Pair to first join and pair with Android gadgets operating 6.0 or later, so monitoring skills are already baked into the firmware. That means you possibly can observe both each earbuds collectively, or one earbud, particularly.
1. Open Bluetooth beneath Settings.
2. If you are utilizing a non-Pixel Android telephone, open the Pixel Buds app.
3. Tap Find Device.
4. You will see the choice to both Ring Left or Ring Right. Tap each and an audible ringing tone will sound from them that will help you pay attention and observe them.
5. If you are solely lacking one of many earbuds, faucet Mute Left or Mute Right to isolate the one you are lacking, so solely that one makes the sound.
6. Be cautious to not put on the earbuds when doing this as a result of the tone will increase in quantity for 20 seconds, reaching unsafe decibel ranges.
7. Once you have discovered the earbud(s), you possibly can silence the ringing by both muting the discovered earbud in your telephone or simply inserting it within the charging case and shutting the lid.
How to examine location and observe them down
A Fast Pair connection additionally allows Google’s Find My Device app to assist find the earbuds with their case in case you misplaced them someplace. It’s not exact, thoughts you, so it will not be capable of triangulate an actual place, however it may well approximate a location so you possibly can a minimum of hint your steps going again. Here’s how one can do it.
1. Open Bluetooth beneath Settings. On non-Pixel telephones, open up the Pixel Buds app.
2. Tap Find Device.
3. Tap Last identified location, which ought to both immediate you to obtain Find My Device or launch it straightaway. You may have to log in to your Google account.
4. When you see an inventory of your gadgets, faucet Google Pixel Buds Pro and Google Maps will then seem to indicate the final identified location.
5. Keep in thoughts that when the earbuds are within the case with the lid closed, there is no method to make them ring.
6. If you do not have a telephone useful, you can even use the Find My Device web site to trace down the earbuds.
Keep the Pixel Buds Pro shut
The Pixel Buds Pro are no roughly simpler to lose than the opposite greatest wi-fi earbuds, so that you do wish to watch out when dealing with them, all the time being conscious of the place you place them. These monitoring options, whereas cool and useful, aren’t miraculous, so greatest to not get complacent and depend on them as a result of there aren’t any ensures they are going to discover them for you.
But a minimum of you will have a few choices in case you do misplace them, particularly if it is simply one of many two earbuds. Keep these greatest practices useful as backups to save lots of your self a few of the frustration in retracing your steps.
Google’s greatest Buds
Google’s Pixel Buds Pro deliver lots of great things to the desk, courtesy of higher sound and extra customized controls, however for those who ever end up in a pinch misplacing them, you will have a few methods to trace them down.
