It is understood that the affected AirPods Pro may have one or more of the following situations:
1, crackling sound or electrostatic noise, increase in noisy environment, exercise or talk.
2. Active noise reduction function can't work normally, such as the loss of bass effect or the increase of background sound (such as street noise or airplane noise).
According to Apple official website, Apple has announced the AirPods Pro service plan for sound problems. Apple said that it has confirmed that a small number of AirPods Pro may encounter sound problems. Apple or an Apple authorized service provider will repair the affected AirPods Pro (left earphone, right earphone or two earphones) for free. It should be noted that other AirPods models are not within the scope of this plan.
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AirPods can read gestures.
According to CNBETA, it may be because Siri on AirPods or AirPods Pro is not always obedient. Apple is studying how to make AirPods respond to gestures, design more touch-sensitive areas, and even equip them with physical buttons or wheels.
The latest research shows that Apple has been seeking to solve this problem, trying to put more control devices on AirPods, including touch-sensitive areas and scroll wheels to control the volume.
"Wearable interactive audio device" is a patented design that Apple applied for this year. Although the application documents only vaguely mention the earplug products, each picture can identify the actual appearance of AirPods.
Apple said in the patent application that many traditional earplugs have major defects, which may limit the ability to control sound or other output at the earplug. In addition, earplugs and other connecting devices may not respond to voice commands, thus limiting the adaptability of earplugs to many types of functions. In many cases, an earplug requires a hard-wired connection to physically couple with another device.
The design described in this patent application may be a sensor and is being considered for future AirPods or similar devices. Broadly speaking, a sensor can actually include any input device, sensor, sensing element, sensing structure, switch or similar device, which responds to environmental changes around the wearable audio device.
For example, the built-in sensor can detect the touch or approach of a user or an object to a wearable audio device, and the capacitance will change when the user moves towards (or presses) the earphone shell. This change can be used to determine the position of the user's finger relative to the housing.
According to the patent description, users may be able to change the volume and other operations by waving their hands near earplugs in the future. This may allow wearable audio devices to detect user gestures.
At the same time, the patent application also describes another quite "old" practice. On the back of AirPods, that is, the part where the wearer's ears face outwards, buttons, wheels and other devices may be designed to provide tactile feedback to users.