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Apple Releases New AirPods Pro 2 Beta Firmware With Support for iOS 18 Features
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From the Apple Newsroom (bold is Apple's, underline is mine):
The "and the paired iPhone, iPad, or Mac" part makes me think this still requires their being paired with an Apple product? E.g., this still won't work on a Windows machine?
By my understanding, keeping the case lid open while charging, both pods in the case, connected to iPhone or iPad, and wait. 🤷🏼😄
More importantly, that means it doens't work when paired with the apple watch?
There's a whole different process for getting Developer betas on Airpods
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/install-airpods-pro-beta-firmware/
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/install-airpods-pro-beta-firmware/
This top “airpods pro 2 ()” shows up, but keeps disabling itself. Not sure which one - if any - is trying to “receive” the update.
Apple is adding Voise Isolation TO the AirPods themselves, not the OS.
The option everyone seems to be confused about, it's an iOS feature and it works with the built-in mic, certain bluetooth headphones and some wired (not USB-C) earphones.
The option everyone seems to be confused about, it's an iOS feature and it works with the built-in mic, certain bluetooth headphones and some wired (not USB-C) earphones.
Possibly.
I’m running the beta (both iOS and AirPods Pro) and people were still saying they could hear others in a teams call. That means either the voice isolation isn’t working yet, it isn’t specific to your own voice or that Apple is doing some split processing between the AirPods and the Apple device.
The fact that voice isolation pre-existed (on iOS) and they called out the AirPods Pro H2 chip made me think they were enhancing the AirPods themselves but it’s not clear if that true.
That said, there’s multiple modes Airpods can operate in with teams and once of them just straight up isn’t working (no sound on my headphones) so it’s possible there’s a compatibility issue with teams specifically.
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Ah, I missed that it's only for the APP2s. 🤷🏼 MB. Probably about time to upgrade anyway.
What worked for me was charging iPhone and AirPods case next to each other with usb-c wires, used the AirPod buds to listen to something for 5 minutes, then put them back in the case and let them charge another 5 minutes.
I would not be surprised if they do not receive any new features. Maybe there will be some minor updates to only address bugs. But I'd also say that it's safe to assume updates for the 1st generation Pros are probably ending sometime soon. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll know when that actually happens.
I remember when the 2nd generation AirPods came out, Apple was still updating the 1st gen AirPods for a few months after. Then they quietly just...stopped. There was never any announcement of "End of Software Support" or anything like that. They just stopped releasing new firmware for them and never said when that date was coming or when it happened.
I found it very surprising, considering how Apple has continued to support the latest iOS versions on very old devices and even delivers security and bug fixes to older iOS major releases 8-10 years after their initial release. But with AirPods, it seems like they get all kinds of new features and updates until new hardware drops. Then you're on your own. Disappointing for $129-249 headphones.
True. I was hopefully as there was a beta for the AirPods, but the new voice isolation does rely on training a machine learning model which gets scaled down and uploaded to the AirPods.
It’s quite possible they carried out manual tests to prove the concept works but don’t have the capability automated in any way yet.
On that note…. This is actually the most bare bones beta 1 I’ve seen Apple release in a while. I’m surprised how little of what they demoed is actually in there. I mean, there’s bugs which I’m used to…. But usually more of the actual features they advertise that are in there as well.
Wonder if Apple Intelligence is getting all the dev focus but because it’s a hybrid solution of cloud/on-device they basically aren’t ready to show anything at scale and on-device is just not as impressive at this stage.
Still unable to get the beta here.
- iPhone 13 Pro Max is on iOS 18 beta
- previous betas have installed ok
- developer menu is enabled
- Airpods testing -> Pre-Release beta firmware is ON for Airpods Pro 2 (serial)
But airpods pro 2 (A2698) remain on version 6F7 (case: 54.26.1)
- iPhone 13 Pro Max is on iOS 18 beta
- previous betas have installed ok
- developer menu is enabled
- Airpods testing -> Pre-Release beta firmware is ON for Airpods Pro 2 (serial)
But airpods pro 2 (A2698) remain on version 6F7 (case: 54.26.1)
I have Ios 18 b2 installed on the phone, but I don't have Xcode installed. Do you think it's worth loading xcode up just to test the Airpods Pro beta? The new features don't sound like big improvements. For those that have experienced the new airpods beta improvements, what are your thoughts?
Honestly, probably not worth it. Just to little features, and we are not even sure if for example, the voice isolation is working on beta 2.
Maybe load the beta up once beta 3 or 4 comes out?
It ended up being that I didnt have the right gen Airpod Pros, then I had to enable dev mode on the iPhone by using Xcode. Once set up, I had to wait a bit with them on the charger, and it updated automatically.