AirPods Pro 3 Disconnecting from Apple Ultra 3 consistently

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Created Oct ’25

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I have both apple devices, AirPods Pro 3 is up to date and Ultra 3 is on watch os 26.1 latest public beta.

Each morning when I would go on my mindfulness app and start a meditation or listen to Apple Music on my watch and AirPods Pro 3, it will play for a few seconds then disconnects. My bluetooth settings on my watch says my AirPods is connected to my watch. I also have removed the tick about connecting automatically to iPhone on the AirPods setting in my iPhone.

To fix this I invariably turn off my Apple Watch Ultra 3 and turn it on again. Then the connection becomes stable. I am not sure why I have to do this each morning. It is frustrating. I am not sure why this fix does not last long? Is there something wrong with my AirPods?

Has anyone encountered this before?

Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Oct ’25

The Apple Developer Forums are for questions about APIs and features intended specifically for developers. Your question doesn't seem to be API-related, and so I'd suggest that you ask help in the Apple Support Community. Thanks!

Best,
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Ziqiao Chen
 Worldwide Developer Relations.

Answer 2

Enging45 OP

21h

I'm having exactly the same issue with my Ultra 3 and Airpods Pro3 (also using iPhone17 ProMax). I complained this to Apple and they assigned a rep who looked into this, did remote diagnosis and everything and then told me that this was a software issue and as such they won't conduct any repair, exchange, refund or anything and asked me to just wait until this gets resolved through software updates! Crazy. Have you had any luck since?