Apple retains including useful new options to AirPods Professional 2, however this newest firmware replace is larger than most—it’s all to get them prepared for the massive iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia replace subsequent week.
The brand new firmware model is 7A294 (the earlier model was 6F8) and it’s out there for each the Lightning and USB-C variants of the 2nd-gen AirPods Professional. Apple describes the replace as follows:
When used with an iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11-supported iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, AirPods Professional 2 firmware replace 7A294 makes the hands-free expertise much more seamless by with the ability to nod your head “sure” or shake your head “no” to answer Siri bulletins like calls, messages, and notifications.
This replace additionally provides Voice Isolation to calls with AirPods Professional 2 to assist make sure you come throughout clearly by eradicating background noise round you for whoever you might be chatting with.
Players additionally now have the perfect wi-fi audio latency Apple has ever delivered for cell gaming and may get pleasure from improved voice high quality, together with 16-bit, 48kHz audio, when chatting with teammates and different gamers.
As well as, this replace contains efficiency enhancements to Personalised Quantity with AirPods Professional 2.
In different phrases, that is the firmware that provides all of the previously introduced new options to AirPods Professional. At its September “Glowtime” occasion, Apple unveiled different new options together with Listening to Safety, a clinical-grade listening to take a look at, and a listening to assist operate. These are coming in a software program replace later this 12 months.
There isn’t a strategy to drive an improve to the brand new firmware; it is going to robotically set up when the AirPods are of their case and charging. It may possibly take hours and even days to get the newest firmware. For those who haven’t used your AirPods in a very long time, taking them out of their case and utilizing them for a couple of minutes earlier than placing them again in and on the charger could assist velocity issues up.
To see what firmware model your AirPods are operating, you possibly can open the Settings app, choose your related AirPods (close to the highest), scroll down previous all of the choices to the About part, and take a look at the Model line. You can even discover this data in Basic > About > AirPods Professional.