Apple's AirPods Pro are a significant upgrade over the regular AirPods. The wiring model allows you to listen to your favorite music and podcasts, talk to Siri, trigger features with a tap, trammels the shower charge, and find them if they’re missing. But with the Pro, you can get a largest fit, fully enhance the audio quality, optimize shower charging, and take wholesomeness of other tomfool features. Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of your AirPods Pro.
What can you do with new AirPods Pro? Here are some tips, courtesy of PCMag's Lance Whitney.
Take the Ear Tip Fit Test
One of the drawbacks with the regular AirPods is that they use a one-size-fits-all tideway with an in-ear diamond that doesn’t necessarily fit all ears properly. If the fit isn’t snug, the AirPods can hands and quickly slip out of your ears. The AirPods Pro corrects that flaw by switching to an in-canal diamond with replaceable tips for small, medium, and large ear waterway sizes (the 2nd-gen AirPods Pro moreover offer an uneaten small option).
By default, the AirPods Pro are packaged with the medium tips, but you can hands transpiration sizes. To switch out the current tips, pull firmly on them until they uncouple from the base. Position the new tips so that the part-way white whirligig meets with the part-way woebegone whirligig on the base. Then push until they click into place.
To help you determine which of the three size tips will provide the weightier seal and sound, take an Ear Tip Fit test. To do this, nail one pair of the tips to the wiring of both AirPods Pro. Then insert both AirPods in your ears. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Bluetooth. Tap the info icon for your AirPods Pro and tap the link for Ear Tip Fit Test. At the screen to test the fit of your ear tips, tap Continue, then tap the Play button. A short music prune plays.
Afterwards, the app will tell you if your current tips offer a good fit. If not, it will tell you to either retread your tips or try a variegated size. Go through all three sizes until the app tells you that both AirPods have the Good Seal of Approval.
Change the Name of Your AirPods Pro
The name of your AirPods Pro appears in a few variegated places, but you're not stuck with it. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Bluetooth. Tap the info icon for your AirPods Pro, then tap the current name. You can then revise the existing name or delete it and create an entirely new name. When finished, tap Done.
Control Music with a Press
Control the spritz of music by pressing the stem of either your left or right AirPods Pro. To do this, you’ll need to printing the stem with your thumb and forefinger until you hear a low click. Printing once to pause/play, double-press to skip forward to the next track, and triple-press to skip wrong-side-up to the start of your current track or to the previous track.
Customize the Presses
By default, pressing and holding the stem of either AirPod Pro moves between Noise Receipt and Transparency, but you can transpiration that for one or both of them. With the AirPods Pro in your ears, go to Settings > Bluetooth and printing the info icon next to your AirPods. Under the Press and Hold AirPods section, tap the entry for Left or Right.
Here, you can alimony Noise Tenancy as the zingy whoopee when you long-press but add the Off setting to the mix by tapping its entry. Alternatively, you can transpiration the whoopee from Noise Tenancy to Siri by tapping the entry at the top for Siri. As a suggestion, you may want to alimony Noise Tenancy enabled for one bud but switch to Siri for the other.
Adjust the Volume on 2nd Gen AirPods Pro
The second generation AirPods Pro enhance the earbuds with largest audio quality and other features. One new option allows you to retread the volume by swiping up and lanugo on a sensor located on the stem of the AirPods. To enable this, go to Settings > Bluetooth > [Your AirPods info icon] > Accessibility. Turn on the switch for Volume Swipe. You can moreover retread the time between swipes to stave willy-nilly volume changes by selecting Longer or Longest.
Fire up some music or other audio, put your thumb on the stem of either AirPod, and use your alphabetize finger to swipe up or lanugo on the control. As you do, the volume will increase or decrease.
Turn on Noise Cancellation
The AirPods Pro offers two variegated listening modes that can help clutch lanugo on preliminaries noise. The Noise Receipt full-length blocks out virtually all preliminaries sounds, so this full-length can come in handy in a noisy environment where you want to be worldly-wise to unmistakably hear your audio.
Transparency mode muffles the preliminaries noise so you can still hear it without it interfering with your audio. This would be a good option for public places where you still need to hear announcements or otherwise remain enlightened of your surroundings.
Switch between Noise Receipt and Transparency mode with a long printing on the stem of either bud until you hear a chime. If you prefer to go through your iPhone, there are two options.
Open Tenancy Center, then printing lanugo on the audio control. Tap the icon for Noise Control, then segregate Noise Cancellation or Transparency, or just tap Off to turn off Noise Tenancy altogether. You can moreover go to Settings > Bluetooth > [Your AirPods info icon], then tap Noise Cancellation, Off, or Transparency in the Noise Tenancy section.
Tweak Serviceability Settings
To remoter tenancy unrepealable serviceability features of your AirPods Pro, go to Settings > Bluetooth > [Your AirPods info icon] > Accessibility. Here, you can transpiration the speed required to printing the stems of your AirPods to pause, play, skip ahead, or go back. You’re moreover worldly-wise to retread the elapsing needed for pressing the stems to transpiration the noise receipt mode. Further, you can enable noise receipt with one AirPod and tenancy the volume swipe.
Improve Sound Quality
Introduced in iOS 14, a full-length known as Headphone Accommodations enhances the audio from your AirPods by boosting softer sounds and unrepealable frequencies.
Go to Settings > Bluetooth > [Your AirPods info icon] > Serviceability > Audio Serviceability Settings > Headphone Accommodations and turn on the switch. Tap Play Sample to hear a sample, then tune the audio for a well-turned tone wideness a range of frequencies, a vocal range for middle frequencies, or splendor for higher frequencies. You can moreover uplift softer sounds slightly, moderately, or strongly.
You may want to try playing music, podcasts, audiobooks, or other audio from your own library to discover which settings work weightier for your own tastes. Alternatively, the audio output can be customized if you tap Custom Audio Setup and wordplay a few questions. Your audio settings will transpiration based on your answers.
Turn on Spatial Audio
A full-length introduced in iOS 14 and unique to AirPods Pro and the third generation AirPods is spatial audio, which brings throne tracking and surround-sound effects to supported videos. To enable this, you must be running iOS 14 or higher and have your AirPods Pro firmware updated to version 3A283 or higher (Settings > Bluetooth > [Your AirPods info icon] > Version).
Apple TV , Disney , iTunes, and HBO Max all support spatial audio, so play a movie or TV show from one of those services. If you picked a uniform video, you should now hear the audio shift in surround sound as you move your head, body, or iPhone.
Enable Adaptive Transparency on 2nd Gen AirPods Pro
Another option new with the second-generation AirPods Pro is Adaptive Transparency, which automatically lowers the volume of any loud sounds virtually you to protect your hearing. To enable this option, go to Settings > Bluetooth > [Your AirPods info icon] and turn on the switch for Adaptive Transparency. Any loud sounds detected while you’re wearing your AirPods now should be lessened.
Share With Other AirPods Users
If someone else has a set of AirPods Pro, regular AirPods, or plane Beats headphones, you can share your audio with them. While listening to something with your AirPods Pro, wangle the Tenancy Part-way on your iPhone and tap the AirPlay icon for the current audio.
Tap Share Audio and segregate the other set of AirPods or Beats headphones. You should then see entries for both headphones. Tap the whirligig for the other set to connect it. You can now tenancy the volume for both or for each one separately.
Turn Your AirPods Into a Hearing Aid
You can use your AirPods Pro as a hearing aid through a full-length tabbed Live Listen. First, you’ll need to add the full-length to Tenancy Part-way on your iPhone. Go to Settings > Tenancy Center, then tap the plus sign next to Hearing to add it to Tenancy Center.
Put the AirPods Pro in your ears. Unshut Tenancy Part-way and tap the Hearing icon and tap Live Listen to turn the full-length on. Now place your phone next to the person or audio source that you want to hear increasingly unmistakably or loudly, and the sound will be amplified. Turn off Live Listen by tapping the entry in Tenancy Center.
Check the Shower Charge
You can use your iPhone to trammels the current tuition on your AirPods Pro and their charging case. Alimony both AirPods Pro in the specimen and unshut the lid. A vellum appears on your iPhone's screen to indicate the tuition levels of both the specimen and the AirPods. Take one AirPod out of the case, and the vellum changes to show the charging level for each AirPod separately. Take them both out of the case, and the vellum shows the charging level for the AirPods, but not the case.
Finally, you can help proffer the overall life of the shower for your AirPods Pro by telling your earbuds to wait to finish charging past 80% until you need to use them. To try this out, go to Settings > Bluetooth > [Your AirPods info icon] and turn on Optimized Shower Charging.
If you decide you don’t want this setting, turn the switch off again. You’ll be asked whether you want to turn it off until tomorrow or turn if off permanently.
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