Slide controls are nice, but the biggest thing for me is the additional battery life over the previous 4.5h. As for charging, AirPods are one of those devices that are made for wireless chargers, since it doesn't need fast charging and you can charge the case while using it. Plopping it down when you get homes is so much more convenient. I can count on my fingers the number of times I actually plugged them in.
Wow. That’s remarkable because I can’t say I’ve ever once fully drained my AirPods Pro or the case, and I’ve never used the Qi charging with the case.
You’d have to assume volume‘s the main reason they’ve added that slide gesture. I was hoping they’d introduce it on the 1st gen (i’ve been picturing a slide motion on that flat edge for years myself) 🔮
Yeah I wasn’t sure if that 6h was with or without Noise Cancellation.
I think you’re confusing spatial audio and head tracking. I agree, the head tracking aspect was off putting and I had to disable it. However, I really love the spatial audio. It makes the music so much richer. Just not when it’s tracking my head movement.
I questioned myself after reading your post as to whether I was getting things confused but since getting either my new iPhone 14 Pro or my new AirPods Pro 2 in the last week or two, I swore something was off again. I couldn't find anything in my AirPod's settings aside from 'personalising' spatial audio, i.e. no toggle like I thought there used to be. However, I was just out walking and I was listening to Take On Me by a-ha (2015 Dolby Remastered Version) and every time I moved my head it was changing where the sodding singing was coming from. I had to google how to turn off head tracking and discovered if you bring up the control panel, then long press on the volume slider, you get an option at the bottom that is "Spatialise Audio" which could toggle, for me, between 'Fixed' and 'Off'. 'Fixed' meant that every time I turned my head, the instruments seemed to be coming from a different place, 'Off' means it sounds normal. I.e. I can walk down the street and look around me without getting irritated about the audio changing direction. I'm all for improved Spatial Audio and ear scanning etc if it increases the stationary audio quality, i.e. like how decent sound cards on the PC make audio appear like it's coming from the back sometimes. 5.1 sound recreated for 2.0 headphones, that kind of thing. I'm not ok with it changing audio based on where I'm pointing my head. For some reason, these things are linked in Apple's head.
