Big Sur Breaks Airpods Connecting to Macbook

I seem to have fixed mine by turning off the auto switching. I set connect to this mac to "when last connected to this mac" and did the same on my phone. It seems to work, but time will tell.

Just press the apple on the top left of your screen. After, go to settings press Bluetooth, and then try to connect your airpods like usual.

Soooo...the "fix" is to disable a FEATURE of the OS and the $200 wireless headphones that were made FOR the companies devices? Sounds like a review I'd see for a 2 star $20 product on Amazon, not for a supposedly top of the line company.

Is it just me or is Apple getting worse every year? They "make improvements" to many things, but they seem to be overall pretty stagnant on the software front. I personally would like some compensation for having to deal with this issue for so long without any word from the company. Shows the trajectory they are on...a company that used to be known for their customer service, reliability, and interconnectivity that ignores such a large issue for months.

For what it is worth, i had the same problem, and none of the above solutions worked. Only after booting in safe mode, i found out it worked again. So i knew it was software related. After some trial and error i found out my Logitech manager for my bluetooth mouse is causing the interference...After deleting thsi program en rebooting my macbook the airpods working as it should be.

I get the same thing. This update messed all sorts of things up. Airpods is one of them. The constant disconnect and lack of dependability in the settings not working as they always did prior to the update is quite disappointing.

Still have the issue today with BigSur 11.2.3 and air pod pros (replaced by apple). Any fix from apple yet?

I tried all of the suggestions above (least invasive to most invasive). I tried to remove the suggested plug-ins but there is nothing in the Plug-Ins subfolders (Components, MAS, VST) for me to remove. Anyone have any other ideas to get this bluetooth issue corrected? MBP 2020

Went back to the drawing board, after trying much of what the commenters suggested here. The simple and most obvious thing I overlooked doing was a PRAM reset. That fixed it for me! Thank goodness! Thought I would share.

I had an issue with AirPods 2 repeatedly disconnecting from MacBook Pro after 10-15 seconds. However, they were stable with my iPad and iPhone. And AirPods 1 and AirPods Pro were stable with my MacBook. Very strange indeed. I ended up having to re-set my AirPods 2 following the 15 second case button hold described here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209463 and then re-add them to MacBook, and other devices. Once completely reset and re-added they seemed to be holding stable connection once again.

Bought the Airpods pro yesterday. Works fine with Iphone XR (ios 14.2), but keeps disconnecting from Mac Book Pro (15-inch, 2019, Big Sur 11.6) after a few seconds or immediately if I try to play any sound. Any ideas? I tried everything I found in this thread and also here: https://piunikaweb.com/2021/04/12/macos-big-sur-bluetooth-connectivity-issues-workarounds/ - no luck

I had issues with my AirPods Pro, the audio shatters while connecting to Mac, they work perfectly on other Apple Devices. Resetting Bluetooth just didn't help, I looked into the Audio Plug-In at /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins, and I noticed there were only three folders:

• /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
• /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS
• /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST

So I "deleted" folder Components by renaming it as Components.old, in case I want to recover that folder in the future. The other two folders MAS and VST were empty, therefore I didn't touch them. AirPods Pro started to work normally after a reboot of the macOS.

I'm using MacBook Pro M1, macOS 12.0.1

I solved this problem by #2 solution from this link https://piunikaweb.com/2021/04/12/macos-big-sur-bluetooth-connectivity-issues-workarounds/

But just by resetting the Bluetooth module alone, it doesn't work for me. I had to also click on Factory Reset All Connected Devices and then restart the mac. And now my Airpods 3 worked on my Big Sur Mac!

I tried all the fixes mentioned in other answers such as reset BT module, delete audio plugins in "/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins", PRAM reset. None of them worked for me.

What worked for me was deleting following .plist files related to bluetooth as mentioned in this link - https://iphonegeeks.com/bluetooth-not-working-on-mac-big-sur

1. com.apple.Bluetooth.plist file in /Library/Preferences directory
2. Files starting with com.apple.Bluetooth in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost directory

After deleting above files I restarted my MacBook and I was able to connect to Airpods.

Note: Earlier I restored my MacBook using a Time Machine backup, perhaps that caused the issue by causing conflicting bluetooth settings and deleting the plist files fixed it. Not 100% sure, just my guess.