Firmware case on AirPods Pro 2 USB C? My case is still 8A356 with firmware 8A358.
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Apple Releases New Firmware for AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4
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Quickest update yet. Put them both on wireless chargers on home wifi. Both APP2 and APP3 updated within 10 minutes. Still have my APP2 need to sell them since I think I'm keeping the APP3.
Could maybe be a cleaning issue. Made a day and night difference for me. Be sure to follow the manual.
I’m quite sure they tweaked the highs at least. There’s a couple of songs in my test list with offensive cymbals that are much more listenable now.
If they don’t get their ***** together and fix the Find My and case sound bugs I’ll lose it.
Probably literally.
Probably literally.
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Yes me too. Tried another plug in and wait 30 min but i still have different version case vs pods same as you.
If they wanted to get a „money train“ going and force people to upgrade, why didn’t they give more incentive by withholding features? Why would they gimp one feature but give us like a dozen new ones no one expected, like pause when asleep? They could have easily gotten away with waiting a few months and announcing all the new iOS 26 features are only available on the new Pro 3‘s.
Your conspiracy theory doesn’t make sense.
You’re predicting as much as anyone that ever predicted Apple would be doomed in the last 25 years.
What are they on currently?
Because there has already been an update like 2 weeks ago and your pods should have long been updated.
Speak for yourself. I definitely still get really good ANC. Maybe we’ve all just grown too accustomed to great ANC by now.
Are you working with very loud or vibrating machinery?
Ok then give them some more time. I was fearing I would see a 74.xx… number for the case.
Sure.
As if Apple wants to risk getting sued for gimping hundreds of millions of their own devices.
Same thing for me. They were always updated at the same time, but now the case and version numbers are different.
I got whistling on my APP3, but it typically only happens if I sneeze, making a really loud noise. I’ll get a tinny sound come through even though I’m not playing anything. It only lasts for a few seconds and disappears after it adjusts to my sneeze. It’s never happened at any other time. With my allergies, it happens every time I sneeze. Did you make any sudden loud noises when it happened to you?
People say this every single time there’s a new firmware update. Apple nerfed the original AirPods Pro ANC once after they got sued for copying someone else’s ANC algorithm and the entire user base swears Apple nerfs ANC every time an update comes out. It’s total paranoia.
The 8A356 firmware version was for the AirPods Pro 2’s. The AirPods Pro 3’s had the 8A357 firmware before today’s update.
I have noticed that I cannot update my APP2 Lightning version. It remains on the 8A356 firmware using the exact same method I used to easily update my APP2 USB-C version and my APP3. Has anyone else been able to update a Lightning APP2?
I have noticed that I cannot update my APP2 Lightning version. It remains on the 8A356 firmware using the exact same method I used to easily update my APP2 USB-C version and my APP3. Has anyone else been able to update a Lightning APP2?
My AirPods Pro 2 (it does appear the bass has been reduced from the previous version):
My Lightning pair updated just fine. Used instructions listed in the article.
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Mine is the same model as yours, but the case is not updating. Don't get it, why! I'm on Tahoe, btw.
I checked on my iPhone to see if it looked update, and there the case number appears as 80.0.356. WTF.
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I have the USB-C APP2, but I've found that with some of these AirPods firmware updates, I don't receive them sometimes for days or several weeks after their release, even though the case (in which I always keep the AirPods when I'm not wearing them) is always plugged into a charger at home (I don't take them anywhere), and my iPhone and Macbook are usually within a couple feet of the case, and even after I open and close the AirPods charging case, which sometimes triggers the update later in the day.
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Same here at the moment. My APP2's themselves just got updated to 8A358 this afternoon, but the case remains at 8A356. I've seen this happen before, and sometimes the case gets updated separately later to the same version as the AirPods, but sometimes not, which may or may not mean the case doesn't get that particular update.