AirPods Problem on Big Sur

While I have developer's beta iOS 14 on both my iPhone and Mac a recurrent problem has being happening to me where when I connect my AirPods to my computer it only recognizes one and uses one for audio. Whereas on my phone both work fine. So the problem is not the AirPods. Hope that on the next beta update it is resolve.
Estou tendo o mesmo problema supramencionado: só funciona o lado direito do meu AirPod. Tem algum atualização do big sur para resolver isso?
Me too :(
I have the same problem, my AirPods Pro connect and only the right one works. On Iphone works in the both sides.
I have the same 'lost connection' issue after clicking the play button , and I have deleted all plugins in "/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/" and tried almost every solutions mentioned in these replies, nothing has fixed this issue. I have already given up, wired headphones suit me.
Only right side works !!!
I have experienced a similar issue. I had my AirPods Pro charging through a lightning cable connected to my iMac while it updated to Big Sur. After the update completed, I unplugged the case and found that my Left AirPod no longer worked, and that all of my Apple Devices were recognizing my right AirPod as the left one.
I have the same issue.
I updated my macbook air recently and now I can't connect my airpods to the computer using macOS Big Sur 11.0.1. Is this a glitch with the update? My airpods work perfect with my iPhone 8 using iOS 14.2. Please advise so I can keep using these expensive headphones!!!!!
I'm having the same issue. My AirPods were working fine with my MacBook Pro before I updated it a few days ago.
Same problem here with my airpods 2 and my MBP 16 with big sur. The sound quality is really poor.

No sound quality problems when it's connected to my iphone

EDIT : I have reset my airpods and everything works fine now !
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/662645?answerId=650400022#650400022
In my case, resetting my airpods pro didn't fix the issue, where left side of the airpods pro not working. But there is a way to fix this issue in different way.
  1. Go to "Audio MIDI Setup" (you can cmd + space to search for this)

  2. Go to AirPods Pro tab (one with outputs)

  3. There should be sliders with '1' and '2', even out both of them (default value should be 0.25 on both sliders)

  4. Done

This solved the issue. Hopefully it will help some people.

My problem is came back. When I check in "Audio MIDI Setup" app, the output bitrate of my airpods was stuck to 1 channel 16kHz.

I have to switch my airpods from my macbook pro to my iphone and finally to my mbp to have 2 formats :
  • 1 channel at 16kHz

  • 2 channels 48kHz

The second one has resolve my issue

I don't know where the issue comes from but it's really weird
FIX: I was able to resolve this issue with my AirPods Pro and Mac OS Big Sur (11.0.1) by going to Sound > Output, and sliding the balance back to center. For some reason the audio balance was shifted all the way to the right.
Got the same issue.. frankly the whole "auto switching between devices" is 50% disaster for me. If I've got something like a Slack call going and pop in my AirPods Pro the right comes on but the Mircophone stays set (in Slack) to my MBP microphone. Change that to AirPods and it livens up both AirPods. No call going on.. or music. Pop in my AirPods and play music, only get audio in the right. Open sound Preferences and the balance slider is over to the right, move it to centre and it's fine.

Happens every single time. Had a look a the audio MIDI setup, can see the balance issue replicated in there, but doesn't seem to change anything.

Pre-Big Sur I had to switch manually but it worked.
When playing some music on my iPhone XS Max, my MBP 2019 interrupts to play a notification sound in my AirPods Pro.

Another problem is it's extremely difficult to switch from the Mac's speakers to AirPods by choosing them in Sound Output menu. An infinite spinner is shown on the AirPods icon and sound output doesn't switch from speakers. Turning off Bluetooth on my Mac and then turning on again helps with that.

Also, when I take one AirPod out, both can disconnect from the current device and connect to another (MBP, iPhone, iPad.)

I've seen someone mentioned Apple Watch could interfere the AirPods Pro connection. Since my Apple Watch is always on my wrist, that could explain those issues.
AirPods Problem on Big Sur
 
 
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