How to charge Beats Studio Buds without case

With the charging case, your Beats Studio Buds provide up to 24 hours of combined playback. When you're ready, here's how to charge them.

Charge your Beats Studio Buds

Your earbuds each provide up to eight hours of playback.1 With the charging case, you can get up to 24 hours of playback.2 And with Fast Fuel, you can get up to one hour of playback after you charge for five minutes.3 To keep your Beats Studio Buds charged, put them in the charging case when you're not using them.

When the case battery is less than 40% charged, the LED on the front turns red. If the LED blinks red, you might need to reset your earphones.

To charge your Beats Studio Buds, place them in the charging case. When you need to charge both the earbuds and the charging case, here's what to do:

1. Place the earbuds in the charging case.
2. Connect the charging case to a power source with the USB-C cable that's included with your Beats Studio Buds.
   
   

You can also charge the case without the earbuds.

See how much charge your Beats Studio Buds have

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

On your Mac

1. Click the Bluetooth menu button in the upper-right corner of your Mac.
2. Select Beats Studio Buds to see the battery level of the earbuds.

On your Android device

Open the Beats app for Android to see the battery level of your earbuds and charging case.

If you can't charge your Beats Studio Buds

If you're having trouble charging your Beats Studio Buds, here are some things you can try.

1. Make sure that the earbuds are seated properly in the charging case.
2. Use another power source or a different cable.
3. Reset your Beats Studio Buds.

If you still need help, contact Apple Support.

1. Testing conducted by Apple in April 2021 using preproduction Beats Studio Buds and Charging Case units and software paired with iPhone 11 Pro Max units and prerelease software. The playlist consisted of 358 unique audio tracks purchased from the iTunes Store (256-Kbps AAC encoding). Volume was set to 50% and Active Noise Cancellation and Transparency were turned off. Testing consisted of full Beats Studio Buds battery discharge while playing audio until the first Beats Studio Buds stopped playback. With Active Noise Cancellation turned on, listening time was up to 5 hours. Battery life depends on device settings, environment, usage, and many other factors.
2. Testing conducted by Apple in April 2021 using preproduction Beats Studio Buds and Charging Case and software paired with iPhone 11 Pro Max units and prerelease software. The playlist consisted of 358 unique audio tracks purchased from the iTunes Store (256-Kbps AAC encoding). Volume was set to 50% and Active Noise Cancellation and Transparency were turned off. Testing consisted of full Beats Studio Buds battery discharge while playing audio until the first Beats Studio Buds stopped playback. The drained Beats Studio Buds were charged to 100 percent, then audio playback was resumed until the first Beats Studio Buds stopped playback. This cycle was repeated until both the Beats Studio Buds and charging case were fully discharged. With Active Noise Cancellation turned on, listening time was up to 15 hours. Battery life depends on device settings, environment, usage, and many other factors.
3. Testing conducted by Apple in April 2021 using preproduction Beats Studio Buds and Charging Case and software paired with iPhone 11 Pro Max units and prerelease software. The playlist consisted of 358 unique audio tracks purchased from the iTunes Store (256-Kbps AAC encoding). Volume was set to 50% and Active Noise Cancellation and Transparency was turned off. 5-Minute charge testing conducted with drained Beats Studio Buds that were charged for 5 minutes, then audio playback was started until the first Beats Studio Buds stopped playback. Battery life depends on device settings, environment, usage, and many other factors.

Published Date: January 11, 2022

There are many popular brands of earbuds out on the market today. AirPods and Beats, both owned by Apple, seem to be at the top of the heap. Sadly, the Beats Studio Buds don’t seem usable without the Smart Case charging case fully charged and nearby. 

If the case dies and the headphones still have a charge, the Beats Studio Buds should still be able to connect to your device, but that is not the case. The case is required for the headphones to connect to your device. If the headphones die, you can use fast charging to get over an hour of play time in five minutes of charge time. But not the opposite.

Options if You Lose Your Beats Studio Buds Case

If you lose the case to your Beats Studio Buds, it’s not the end of the world. It might be a momentary press pause on the audio world, but there are still options. First, the case is absolutely required to connect to your device. It seems like a misstep on Apple’s part, but that is what they chose to do. 

• Use Apple’s Find My app to locate your missing Beats Studio Buds case
• Use Beats App on Android to find the missing Beats Studio Buds case
• Contact Apple with Beats Studio Buds serial number

The good news is they made some ways to find your case quickly using their Find My device app if you are iOS and the Beats if you are on Android. One important note is, hopefully, that you set up the Find My app or Beats app beforeyou lose your Beats Studio Buds case. It may already be too late if you are coming here after the fact.

Once you find your Beats Studio Buds case, keep it in a protective case and attach it to something, so you can’t lose it.

Before freaking out, you should also check the last few places you used your Beats Studio Buds. They can be connected to many devices, such as a Windows PC.

Use Apple’s Find My App to Locate Your Missing Beats Studio Buds Case

The most important aspect of these instructions is that the Find My app must have been set up before these instructions can work. If you didn’t set up the Find Myapp, you might have to resort to contacting Apple and using your device’s serial number to get them to locate your device. Instructions will be given later in this post on finding your Beats Studio Buds’ serial number.

• Make sure your Beats Studio Buds have already been set up with your iPhone, iPad, or iOS device.
• Open the Apple Find My app – The App is a gray background with a large green circle that looks like a RADAR with a small blue circle inside of it
• Press Devices tab at the bottom of the screen
• Swipe up from the bottom to reveal a list of your devices
• Your Beats Studio Buds should appear in this list
• Tap on the Beats Studio Buds you lost

By using the Find My App, you will now be able to see your Beats Studio Buds:

• Last known location
• Have them play a sound so you can locate them
• Get directions to their last known location

Use Beats App on Android to Find Missing Beats Studio Buds Case

While Android doesn’t have the Find My app, Android users can still attempt to locate their Beats Studio Buds using the Beats app they used to set up their headphones. Each time the headphones are connected to your Android device, their location is recorded. If you have lost your case, you can see the last place it connected to your Android device.

As with the previous instructions and Apple’s Find My app, it is imperative that the beats were added to the Beats app beforethey are lost. Otherwise, there isn’t much the Beats app can do for you after the fact. 

• Open the Beats app
• Press Locate My Beats
• Choose your Beats Studio Buds from the list
• A map showing the last known connection to your Android device should pop up.

Contact Apple and Find Your Beats Studio Buds Serial Number

Unfortunately, we are trying to find the Smart Case and not the earbuds themselves for this post. In their infinite wisdom, Apple decided the best and only place they would print the serial number on the Beats Studio Buds would be the inside lid of the Smart Case. At least, that is the case on the headphones themselves.

If you still have your headphones’ packaging, the serial number will be printed near the UPC code on the back of the package. Otherwise, the headphones must be connected to see the serial number from within the phone. An oversight, to be sure.

For iOS Users:

If you find the serial number on the packaging, however, you can contact Apple, and they can relay the last known location to you once you prove you are who you say you are. You will also probably need to know the Apple ID login and password information for the Apple ID associated with the Beats Studio Buds that have the missing case.

For Android Users:

Android users can also find the serial number for their device without their device needing to be connected by:

• Open the Beats app
• Find Under the Hood: Serial Number
• Contact Apple with that serial number and get the last known location of your charging case.

Conclusion

It is an oversight for the earbuds to not be usable without the charging case. I can’t see many instances where most people using them aren’t just carrying them around in the case anyway. Since that is the only way to charge the Beats Studio Buds, they don’t have a very long shelf life without the Smart Case. It is best to find or replace it.

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