September 9, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces AirPods 4 and the world’s first all-in-one listening to well being expertise with AirPods Professional 2
The brand new AirPods lineup features a brand-new design for AirPods 4, a brand new array of colours for AirPods Max, and revolutionary Listening to Safety, Listening to Check, and Listening to Support options for AirPods Professional 2
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at this time introduced a groundbreaking new lineup of AirPods fashions and options. The brand new AirPods 4 are essentially the most superior and cozy headphones Apple has ever created with an open-ear design, and at this time, clients can select between two distinct fashions: AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with Energetic Noise Cancellation (ANC). AirPods Max now are available in midnight, starlight, blue, purple, and orange, and provide USB-C charging for extra comfort. This fall, AirPods Professional 2 will introduce the world’s first end-to-end listening to well being expertise, delivering energetic Listening to Safety,1 a scientifically validated Listening to Check, and a clinical-grade Listening to Support characteristic.2
AirPods 4 and AirPods Max might be obtainable to pre-order beginning at this time, with availability in shops starting Friday, September 20. New listening to well being options might be obtainable this fall for AirPods Professional 2 customers in additional than 100 nations and areas.
“With AirPods 4, clients can get pleasure from Energetic Noise Cancellation and essentially the most superior audio expertise ever in an open-ear design,” mentioned John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice chairman of {Hardware} Engineering. “And with a revolutionary replace to the world’s best-selling headphones, AirPods Professional will ship groundbreaking new capabilities — together with Listening to Check and Listening to Support options — to assist greater than a billion individuals affected by listening to loss.”
AirPods 4 Unveil an Business-Defining Design
With unimaginable sound high quality, as much as 24-hour battery life with the charging case, and an iconic design, the unique AirPods provided wi-fi comfort and seamless pairing with the Apple ecosystem of merchandise. That have will get even higher with AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with ANC, providing a brand-new match and an array of highly effective options and capabilities.
AirPods 4 are the most effective headphones Apple has ever created with an open-ear design, setting a completely new benchmark for match and luxury. The brand new design is constructed with an unparalleled information set that makes use of superior modeling instruments, like 3D photogrammetry and laser topography, to exactly map and analyze hundreds of ear shapes and over 50 million particular person information factors in whole. This course of helped refine the design to ship essentially the most comfy AirPods ever with one form that naturally matches much more customers around the globe.
Delivering a large enchancment in sound high quality, AirPods 4 characteristic a completely new acoustic structure, low-distortion driver, and excessive dynamic vary amplifier, and add Personalised Spatial Audio with dynamic head monitoring for essentially the most immersive media expertise. With the H2 chip, AirPods 4 unlock clever audio experiences solely Apple silicon can ship, resembling Voice Isolation, enabling clearer name high quality regardless of the environmental situations, and Siri Interactions, permitting customers to easily nod their head sure or gently shake their head no to answer Siri bulletins. For much more management, AirPods 4 additionally characteristic a brand new drive sensor on the stem to play or pause media and mute or finish calls with a fast press. Due to the H2 chip, AirPods 4 are additionally nice for gaming, delivering low wi-fi audio latency and wonderful voice high quality when chatting with teammates and different gamers, together with help for 16-bit, 48kHz audio.
For extra comfort, the charging case now presents USB-C charging and is greater than 10 % smaller in quantity than its predecessor — all whereas nonetheless delivering as much as 30 hours of battery life.3 Along with a USB-C charging cable, clients that select AirPods 4 with ANC can cost utilizing an Apple Watch charger or Qi-certified charger, and at simply 50mm vast, the charging case is the smallest within the trade with wi-fi charging capabilities.
AirPods 4 Convey ANC to an Open-Ear Match
For the primary time, AirPods 4 deliver ANC to an open-ear design with a further mannequin. With upgraded microphones, the ability of the H2 chip, and superior computational audio, AirPods 4 with ANC assist to cut back environmental noise like airplane engines, metropolis site visitors, and extra. Working throughout {hardware} and software program to ship essentially the most pure listening expertise, AirPods 4 with ANC additionally introduce clever options like Transparency mode to maintain customers conscious of their surroundings; Adaptive Audio, which dynamically blends Transparency mode and ANC primarily based on the situations of a person’s surroundings; and Dialog Consciousness, which lowers the person’s media quantity after they begin talking to somebody close by.
AirPods Max Get 5 New Colours
AirPods Max can be found in 5 lovely new colours, together with midnight, starlight, blue, orange, and purple, and provide complementary finishes alongside different Apple merchandise like Mac and iPad. Moreover, AirPods Max now characteristic USB-C charging capabilities, making them extra handy than ever to cost at residence or on the go.
AirPods Professional 2 Introduce the World’s First All-in-One Listening to Well being Expertise
Roughly 1.5 billion individuals around the globe live with listening to loss, in keeping with the World Well being Group. Constructing on years of labor in listening to well being — together with the Noise app on Apple Watch, headphone audio ranges with iPhone, listening to accessibility options, and the Apple Listening to Research — Apple is introducing an end-to-end expertise targeted on prevention, consciousness, and help.
Prevention
Based on the Apple Listening to Research, one in three individuals are often uncovered to loud environmental noise ranges that may impression their listening to. That may embrace widespread eventualities like taking the subway whereas commuting, mowing the garden at residence, attending a sporting occasion, and plenty of extra. With a purpose to assist customers forestall publicity to loud environmental noise whereas preserving the sound signature of what they’re listening to, Listening to Safety involves AirPods Professional. The ear suggestions assist to offer passive noise discount, whereas the H2 chip helps to actively cut back louder, extra intermittent noise at 48,000 occasions per second. On by default throughout all listening modes, Listening to Safety is useful in a wide range of loud settings. Plus, with an all-new multiband excessive dynamic vary algorithm, sounds at reside occasions like live shows stay pure and vibrant so customers don’t miss a beat.
Consciousness
Apple can be introducing a scientifically validated Listening to Check characteristic with AirPods Professional and a appropriate iPhone or iPad, increasing the power for customers to shortly test their listening to from the consolation of their residence in minutes. The check is easy to take, makes use of an ordinary scientific strategy referred to as pure-tone audiometry, leverages superior acoustic science, and offers customers with an interactive expertise. When a person completes the check, they are going to see an easy-to-understand abstract of their leads to a personalised listening to profile for AirPods Professional, which is saved privately and securely of their Well being app. Customers may share these outcomes with their healthcare suppliers for extra knowledgeable conversations.
Help
“Listening to well being is a necessary a part of our total wellbeing, but it might typically be neglected — the truth is, in keeping with the Apple Listening to Research, a staggering 75 % of individuals identified with listening to loss go untreated,” mentioned Sumbul Desai, M.D., Apple’s vice chairman of Well being. “We’re thrilled to offer breakthrough software program options with AirPods Professional that put customers’ listening to well being entrance and middle, bringing new methods to assist check for and obtain help for listening to loss.”
AirPods Professional additionally add an modern, over-the-counter Listening to Support functionality for customers with delicate to reasonable listening to loss. Utilizing the customized listening to profile from the Listening to Check, this new characteristic seamlessly transforms AirPods Professional right into a clinical-grade listening to help. After setup, the characteristic permits customized dynamic changes so customers have the sounds round them boosted in actual time. This helps customers higher interact in dialog and retains them linked to the individuals and surroundings round them. With the unimaginable audio high quality of AirPods Professional, the person’s customized listening to profile is robotically utilized to music, films, video games, and telephone calls throughout their gadgets without having to regulate any settings. This primary-of-its-kind software-based Listening to Support characteristic brings customers the power to fine-tune their expertise at any time, making entry to listening to help simpler than ever at an approachable value level. Customers may arrange the Listening to Support characteristic with an audiogram created by a listening to well being skilled. Each the Listening to Check and Listening to Support options are grounded in science and have been validated by way of rigorous scientific research. The Listening to Check and Listening to Support options are anticipated to obtain advertising authorization from international well being authorities quickly, and might be obtainable this fall in additional than 100 nations and areas, together with the US, Germany, and Japan.
After taking the Listening to Check, customers may use their listening to profile to personalize the AirPods Professional listening expertise. This advantages much more individuals, together with these with little to no listening to loss, who can benefit from particular changes at particular person frequencies. To assist present the most effective listening expertise, Media Help is an all-new characteristic that helps increase sure components of speech on a telephone name or devices inside a soundtrack to assist a fair broader inhabitants.
Higher for the Atmosphere
AirPods are designed to attenuate their impression on the surroundings. The brand new AirPods 4 design consists of the usage of one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth components in all magnets and one hundred pc recycled gold within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards. The case additionally makes use of one hundred pc recycled tin within the solder of the primary logic board and one hundred pc recycled aluminum within the hinge. AirPods 4 are free of doubtless dangerous substances resembling mercury, BFRs, and PVC. In a primary for AirPods, one hundred pc of the packaging is made utilizing fiber-based supplies, bringing Apple nearer to its aim of utterly eradicating plastic from all packaging by 2025. Moreover, Apple diminished the packaging quantity by greater than 30 % in comparison with the earlier era, which helps lower emissions from delivery and transfer nearer to Apple’s dedication of changing into carbon impartial by 2030.
Pricing and Availability
- Prospects can now pre-order AirPods 4 for $129 (U.S.) from apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app within the U.S. and greater than 58 different nations and areas, with availability starting Friday, September 20.
- Prospects can now pre-order AirPods 4 with Energetic Noise Cancellation for $179 (U.S.) from apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app within the U.S. and greater than 58 different nations and areas, with availability starting Friday, September 20.
- New listening to well being options might be obtainable this fall for AirPods Professional 2 clients in a free software program replace when paired with iPhone or iPad working iOS 18 or iPadOS 18.
- AirPods Professional 2 can be found for $249 (U.S.) from apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app at this time.
- Prospects can now pre-order AirPods Max with USB-C charging for $549 (U.S.) from apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app within the U.S. and greater than 60 different nations and areas, with availability starting Friday, September 20.
- New subscribers can get Apple Music free for 3 months with the acquisition of any AirPods, AirPods Professional, or AirPods Max. See apple.com/promo for particulars.
- For full characteristic performance, use AirPods 4, AirPods Professional 2, and AirPods Max paired with an Apple machine working the most recent working system software program.
- AppleCare+ for Headphones offers unparalleled service and help. This consists of limitless incidents of unintended harm, battery service protection, and precedence help from the individuals who know AirPods finest.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At this time, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- The Listening to Safety characteristic works with AirPods Professional 2 with the most recent firmware when paired with a appropriate iPhone, iPad, or Mac working the most recent working system software program. The characteristic might be obtainable within the U.S. and Canada. See help.apple.com/120850 for whole attenuation and extra info.
- The Listening to Check and Listening to Support options are anticipated to be obtainable fall 2024. The Listening to Support characteristic is pending advertising authorization from international well being authorities. The Listening to Check and Listening to Support options might be supported on AirPods Professional 2 with the most recent firmware paired with a appropriate iPhone or iPad with iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 and later, and are meant for individuals 18 years or older. The Listening to Support characteristic is meant for individuals with perceived delicate to reasonable listening to loss.
- Battery life varies by use. See apple.com/batteries for particulars.
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