How to Use All the New AirPods Pro Features in iOS 17

[boswald]

The new features are great! They have my APP2 a breath of fresh air and I’ve been using them a lot more lately.

I went for a hike a couple days ago with Adaptive Audio enabled and it was great. I could hear my music with all the detail in addition to the sounds of nature. Great time.

 

[amartinez1660]

I vaguely recall, no mention of the “slide the stem” as if scrolling the watch crown to lower or increase the volume, is that still a thing?

 

[AgeOfSpiracles]

I vaguely recall, no mention of the “slide the stem” as if scrolling the watch crown to lower or increase the volume, is that still a thing?

Maybe it was rumored, but I don't think it was real. I think one of the Bose models has it? Honestly, it sounds like kind of a mess to use in practice. I know it's a very typical Apple user answer, but I prefer controlling my volume with my watch crown. Slide just sounds like it would be very imprecise and janky.

 

[WU27f1xcCs]

I vaguely recall, no mention of the “slide the stem” as if scrolling the watch crown to lower or increase the volume, is that still a thing?

Yes this is a thing on my pro 2’s. Took some getting used to, but now I like it.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Basically all of those features create unpredictable behavior and negatively affect hearing experience, rather than an easy “on” or “off”. Apple has no way to know what matters the most at any given moment regardless. Trying to outsmart the complexity of the real world is just pointless.

I get where you're coming from but the thing with all of these features is they are "AI powered." If you use them they should get better over time, and of course I would hope Apple will improve the algorithms with software updates.