I returned mine for this very reason. After 15-20 minutes of use each size would work their way at the edge of my ears and fall out.
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DigiTimes: New AirPods Pro Likely Deferred Until Second Half of 2020 or Later
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“AirPods Pro lite” will probably just be new base model of airpods. This particular rumor is for a more high end airpods model.
Wow, you must have had a defective pair of Pro's - mine exhibit none of those problems.
They will if you are on the latest firmware, which has since been pulled so you should be good. If you are on the defective firmware, you will see issues at some point. Apple is aware of these issues and they are firmware specific problems. Unfortunately they haven't updated the firmware and no update is in sight.
Yeah that’s the tough part, but perhaps Apple can further improve ANC to compensate for that. Wishful thinking probably, but personally I find the regular AirPods more comfortable despite the better overall all-around quality of the Pros. Excited to see what Apple has in store for over-the-ear.
I assume you received at least one replacement set of APPs. Never experienced any of these issues with my pair purchased in Dec.
the rumors are messed up because of naming. the AirPods Pro will not be updated until 2021. the question is will the regular AirPods be updated this year? Will there be an all new mid-level tier for AirPods that looks like the Pro but doesn't have active noise reduction? those are the open questions.
"... new entry level Airpod Pros..."
So, APP Lite as in without the noise cancellation features?
Better if Apple publicly acknowledged that its current APP firmware caused lots of issues to the existing APP, which are still relatively new, and spent more time in updating and releasing a firmware to correct the existing issues.
Appears that Apple is just creating products without spending much time in Quality Control (QC) before releasing the products into the public.
Lots of people still having iOS issues (still issues about decreasing battery life) and now APP noise cancellation issues.
What is Apple thinking or not thinking?
So, APP Lite as in without the noise cancellation features?
Better if Apple publicly acknowledged that its current APP firmware caused lots of issues to the existing APP, which are still relatively new, and spent more time in updating and releasing a firmware to correct the existing issues.
Appears that Apple is just creating products without spending much time in Quality Control (QC) before releasing the products into the public.
Lots of people still having iOS issues (still issues about decreasing battery life) and now APP noise cancellation issues.
What is Apple thinking or not thinking?
Am I misreading the article? It sounds like AirPods 3 soon, and AppleX headphones sometime this fall or possibly even a year from now. Bogus rumor of “AirPods Pro Lite” from, who else, DigiTimes.
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Yup it’s to nobody’s surprise that products that sell 300-350 million a year are updated a little more often than Macs that sell <4 million a year.
I believe there's a typo or a bad source...no way Apple is releasing new AirPods Pro this year...maybe late 2021? For sure they are releasing new AirPods.
Bad Source. Digitimes has a very sketchy track record, even though they have been right in the past, but there’s no factual truth to this article. It wouldn’t line up with Apple trajectory of AirPod releases, considering the ‘Pros‘ wouldn’t be updated every 12 months, more like every 18 months.
Jon Prosser has nailed all of his leaks and he says new Airpods are coming, but there is no way they will be 'Pros'.
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Correct, but the latest update was removed due to people hammering Apple about issues with it. But they've yet to put out a new update to fix the bugs.