What You Need to Connect AirPods to PS4
Believe it or not, the PS4 doesn’t support Bluetooth audio out of the box. That means that you can’t connect AirPods or any other kind of Bluetooth headphones to it without buying accessories. If you try connecting AirPods to PS4 without an adapter, the PS4 will be able to detect them, and you’ll go through all of the pairing steps only to see the process fail at the very last stage. Annoying! To get around this, you need to get a PS4 Bluetooth adapter that supports Bluetooth audio that you can plug into the console. For this article, we used the Twelve South AirFly Duo, but any Bluetooth adapter that supports audio and can be plugged into a PS4 (via USB or the headphone jack, for instance) can work.
How to Connect AirPods to PS4
Follow these steps to use a Bluetooth adapter to connect AirPods to PS4:
Can You Use AirPods to Chat with Other Gamers on PS4?
While this article explains how to connect AirPods to PS4, there’s one limitation of this approach: You can’t chat with other gamers you’re playing with, even though AirPods have a microphone (as anyone who has used them for phone calls knows). That’s because most Bluetooth adapters only send audio from the PS4 to your headphones, but not the other way around. For that, you’ll need headphones specifically made for the PS4 (or other gaming consoles).
Output Device: Set to Headphones Connected to Controller (or the menu that’s correct for your Bluetooth adapter).Output to Headphones: Set to All Audio.
You can also control the volume of the audio sent from the PS4 to your AirPods in the Volume Control (Headphones) menu. Still, if all you want to do is hear audio without bothering anyone else, a Bluetooth adapter is a great option.
