I've been a skeptic, but the new firmware has definitely screwed up my APP2 ANC. I've been doing this all afternoon. Sitting at my desk, with nothing playing and with my AC running, there is a loud hissing that I can eliminate for a few seconds by temporarily engaging transparency and then going back to ANC. Moreover, the hissing fluctuates when I leave ANC engaged. This is on top of all the connectivity issues, none of which were fixed. I truly hate these things.
I noticed no difference. It's still absolute blissful silence when I put them on. It's as good as it was before. I'm going to try my APP1 and AP3 now to see if there's any difference.
You're likely not reaching the threshold where you would detect the loss in ANC if all you hear is blissful silence. Try making comparisons in a louder environment like I did.
Windows has an annoying tendency to automatically reboot at the worst times in order to install updates. You can only postpone them for so long before Windows says, sorry, we're updating whether you want it or not. Typically it wants to do it when I'm in the middle of a game at the most crucial point.
Will do. But I'm hesitant to "upgrade" the firmware on my second APP2 pair due to the partial disabling of ANC on the update.
Open the lid, bring up Control Center and tap on the popup to switch your audio to the AirPods of your choice. I've had better luck leaving the lid open for half an hour or so in order to get the update. I've had it work with the lid closed, but it fails more often than not.
In my experience, it's made the ANC much worse for the APPP2. I had sent a feedback report to Apple to let them know, but have heard nothing. The original ANC was great, apart from lacking cancellation for the highest frequencies. I've had to wear ear defenders in the gym because of poor speakers playing a radio station at 60db. The ear defenders muffle the sound, and that's great, but it gets hot!. I think Apple should offer an ANC slider, a bit like a volume control, to decide on a personal amount.
I don’t think you can disable the update. It will update at some point in time.
It's annoying as heck to people who pay attention to the tech news and see the updates. I suspect Apple did it this way so that it gets updated in the course of people using their AirPods and is a way to get people to update without them knowing or caring.
It is frustrating. It took me close to two hours to finally get my APP2 to update last night. I plugged it into my MBP, listened on my iPhone for about a minute, then put it back in my case, leaving the lid open and propping it up next to the iPhone. Eventually it did finally update. You just have to be persistent. It's stupid that there's no manual process. I don't mind having an automatic process, but we should have both.
This was wearing them around the house, not just an instant moment in time. I did some cooking, played some YouTube while doing that on occasion, stood next to the very loud ventilation fan. I heard nothing. Microwave was completely silent, though I faintly heard it beeping when it finished. The comment was oriented towards not playing anything and hearing nothing. Often playing something will drown out what the NC couldn't handle, which I suppose is the best metric.
I’ve literally never thought of it. Every time I check my firmware it’s the current one, unless it’s like the very day it came out and I’m wading through some forum full of people freaking out about it.
Right, but for evaluating the reduced ANC in this new Airpods Pro 2 update, scenarios where you don't hear anything are the worst to test how the extent of which Apple reduced the ANC.
