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AirPods Pro 2 Engravings Appear in iOS During Pairing and Connecting
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Only Apple can do this. We should appreciate the whimsy, becuase you won't get this anywhere else.
I think it's fine in this case, since people generally aren't reselling AirPods? At least I know I wouldn't (knowingly) buy 2nd hand ones.
Not wrong. How many other companies control the hardware, software and OS the way Apple does?
The person in charge of implementing this should be in charge of more.
Damnit. I got them 20% off on the Amazon AU sale, so engraving wasn't an option, and now I find myself wishing I paid the 25% more so I can see the poop emoji when pairing the case.
I was going to Memoji on mine, but I couldn't get it to register any face extreme enough. I thought my face emoji-fied but looking really angry or confused or crazed could have been funny. Instead I just went old school with :^/
(my favorite, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ used not-allowed characters)
(my favorite, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ used not-allowed characters)
I got mine engraved with my name and that did not appear when I connected my AirPods Pro 2 today. So I believe it’s only emojis and memogis like the article mentions. Just wanted to let people know that personal words or names don’t show up on the phone.
Customers who personalize their second-generation AirPods Pro charging case with an engraving will now have that engraving reflected directly on iOS as they pair and connect their AirPods Pro.
Apple allows customers to personalize their AirPods Pro charging case with a special engraving that can include select emojis and Memojis. Unlike before, starting with the second-generation AirPods Pro, that engraving is now reflected on the digital case on iOS as a user pairs and connects their AirPods Pro.
The second-generation AirPods Pro began arriving to customers today. The new AirPods Pro include better Active Noise Cancellation, the new H2 chip, and an updated charging case with deeper Find My integration and a lanyard loop.
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Know it alls are a major pain. the team who works on syncing the engraving process to the serial number of the AirPods box so that your engraving shows up on phone may have an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT skill set from those who fix bugs written in Objective-C or Swift. So this idea that their resources were wasted on the engraving technology instead of fixing bugs is just insane. It’s like making the argument “why are cleaners vacuuming on the 7th floor when they could be deep in a Sev1 memory bug???”. Apple’s a 2 trillion dollar company that is incredibly desirable for most software developers to spend a while at, they can get WHOEVER they want, they just run out of time for a strict release cycle. Fair or not, for us to decide but stop this silliness that coding resources were wasted on engraving rather than on bug fixes.
Will it allow the digital case to show all the scratches and dings too? But seriously, it’d be cool if they had some sort of super bright LEDs under the white plastic that would be invisible when not in use but would allow you to put any sort of “digital engravings” on your case.
My name showed up. I used capital letters (which it defaulted to), but, yeah, my name is showing clear as day.
Like janitors stepping in for MDs if needed. More cross-training is needed.
I imagine it does phone home. This is probably using the same mechanism apple used to look for counterfeit devices - look up some serial numbers in a database to authenticate the device. And if it has an engraving in Apple’s database, that gets downloaded and displayed on the screen.
It would be interesting to see what happens if an owner tries to pair their new AirPods without an active data connection.
Cue someone crowing about privacy implications in 3… 2…
Absolutely not. They’re specifically working on picking out single MR members that make accounts just to complain about the company, and purposely putting bugs on their phones.
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Apple's selection of (m)emojis are very limited.
Doesn't allow Asian characters or emoticons (kaomoji) except something basic like (O.O).
Many aren't allowed like...
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻┻ , (´・ω・｀) , ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) , ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , (´◡`) , ¯\_(°‿°)_/¯, (=˃ᆺ˂=) .
Doesn't allow Asian characters or emoticons (kaomoji) except something basic like (O.O).
Many aren't allowed like...
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻┻ , (´・ω・｀) , ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) , ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , (´◡`) , ¯\_(°‿°)_/¯, (=˃ᆺ˂=) .
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It’s all digital. Not sure how human error would come in outside an order being shipped to the wrong person. A file is generated when you place your order, and that file goes to the digital printer/engraver.