Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released an update for
airpods 2 as well as airpods pro and so i wanted
to explain how you can check to see what version
you're on how to install the update to your airpods 2 or airpods pro
as well as what's new and this particular update is
3a283 and so we'll check that in a moment but
the update that we're looking forward to is finally here
and this was introduced with ios 14 at wwdc
back in june so this particular update brings some really great features
and so the first thing is you want to check the version that your airpods are
already on and to do that just make sure your
airpods are connected or they've been connected in the past
and if they're already connected that's fine if they've been connected you can
do it the same way you can check it under settings general
and about or i find it easier just to go to your
bluetooth settings and then tap the i next to the airpods you want to check
the firmware version on so we'll tap the i and if we scroll down
to the bottom you'll see it's version 3a 283
and this particular version like i said has some new features
so let's go back and if you want to update this particular version and you
don't already have it you have an older firmware version
well unfortunately there's no button to just say update my airpods
what you actually have to do is make sure that they're somewhat charged in
fact i find that it's better if the case and airpods are over 50 percent
and then normally what i do is plug in my air pods and i have a separate video
showing how to do this but plug in your air pods i find it works
better make sure your phone is nearby that your air pods are connected just
like i did you can then close the case it doesn't matter close
the case set them down next to you to your iphone
i also charge the iphone at the same time it seems to help do it a little bit
faster and then it will update on its own you
just have to keep checking so unfortunately there's no fast
way to just update it you have to kind of just leave them by themselves
sitting there and then it will update on its own now once you have it updated
you'll have the new features now for airpods 2 they get one new
feature and airpods pro gets two new features
as well as what i think is better noise cancellation and maybe some bug fixes to
things people are having issues with now apple has not specifically stated
what bugs they've fixed but noise cancellation seems to be the
same or better than it was before at least for me i've been using them for
about an hour or so and then it adds one major feature that
we've been looking forward to for a long time and that is automatic switching
so what that means is once you have ios 14 which should be out to the public
fairly soon i would expect the gm after apple's
event on tuesday and then a final release
within a week or two and so once we have that you'll have the ability
if you're already on ios 14 betas you'll be able to try this out
and so automatic switching works pretty simply what it means is you can
put in your air pods and as long as they're on your own account and they're
paired i'll put in the air pods here i'll just
put the air pods 2 in my ear because it works with air pods 2
or air pods pro so now that i have my air pods 2 in my ear you'll see i've
opened music on both my iphone and my ipad and it
already says moved to iphone aaron's airpods 2. now
if i hit play it will play in my ears it's playing
right now but maybe i pause this and i want to go over to my ipad we'll
go over here and i'll hit play and immediately
it connects my airpods and now it's playing in my ears
and so it automatically switches between devices
this should work on mac os big sur once it's out as well
and so you can quickly switch whether it be music or movies or tv or any of those
it just jumps back and forth based on what you're using
sometimes it takes a second to do that but in general it works pretty well
now other than that the other huge feature is with airpods pro and they're
specific to airpods pro and what that is is spatial audio now
it's kind of hard to understand what spatial audio is until
you can actually try it for yourself but i'll try and help you understand so
what it is is maybe you have an ipad or an iphone and you want to watch
a movie and this works specifically with movie
and tv shows that are set up for airpods pro or that
support spatial audio so now we're connected
and now that we're connected i'll just go to tv and if you want to play a movie
say like dunkirk for example it's a great example of what it actually is
sounds like when you're using it and when you're using spatial audio what
it does is measures where your ipad is in
relation to your airpods and so maybe you turn your head to the
left you look across the room you'll actually hear the sound coming
from your right ear when you turn your head right you'll
actually hear it from your left ear and so it's based on where the ipad is
in relation to where you're looking kind of based off the motion
in your air pods and the motion from the ipad as well
so based on you moving your head back and forth that's how it does it and you
can actually see a feature or a or an option to turn this
on or off so on my iphone 11 pro max here we'll
just go to my airpods pro settings and you'll see it says spatial audio on
i can turn it off turn it on and again noise control of
course transparency or noise cancellation it doesn't really
matter but you have those additional options now
so it's not something you have to use but you can use it and it's really nice
when you're watching video in fact i didn't even know what was on
at first i thought the sound was coming directly from the ipad when i first
started watching the movie because the sound is spatial it sounds
like you're sitting in the room that you're
normally sitting in and the sound is projecting from the ipad itself
and so it's projecting toward you it sounds like it's coming right at you
like you were sitting in a theater and the sound goes around you in
surround sound as well it's really incredible and i think it's game
changing for airpods it's definitely worth trying out if you have airpods pro
now one thing i noticed is there's a nice little animation the first time you
connect airpods pro so if you don't have airpods
pro connected to your device if you open it up
and we'll wait for it to connect here you'll see it says not your airpods pro
will hit connect wants me to reset them now that they're
connected it's explaining media control but now it will also explain spatial
audio so you can see and hear how it works with a
little demonstration if you want to try that out just reset your airpods pro
and you can see that so see and hear how it works place them in your ear
now once you've placed them in your ear you'll see it says stereo audio and
spatial audio and so it gives you an idea of what it actually sounds like if
you want to try it out and you want to get a better idea of how it works
so with automatic switching that's a huge feature that's just super
convenient no more going to bluetooth tapping on it for it to connect
it just does it based on your icloud account and what device you're using
and then of course that spatial audio if you haven't tried this out and you have
airpods pro and you don't have ios 14 i can't wait
for you to try this out you're going to love this feature
and of course you can turn it off like i said if you don't want to use it
but it's something that i think is really really great to watch on it will
work on apple tv as well and i'm going to be trying out a bunch
of movies because it just really makes them that much better
unless you have a very high end surround sound system
it's great to have airpods watch a movie on your phone
your ipod or your ipad you really have to try it out to understand it and you
can get to the same setting as well under your bluetooth settings so spatial
audio bluetooth go to your airpods pro that are
connected tap on the eye and down at the bottom you'll see
spatial audio so spatial audio allows you to hear immersive
three-dimensional audio from supported videos that follow the movement of your
iphone and i failed to mention that i don't
know how many things support this youtube does not support
spatial audio but the ipad using apple purchased
movies seems to work just fine as long as i think they have 5.1
surround sound maybe it'll work i'm not sure what the specifications are
but there's definitely a specification that will allow it and it seems to be
what's in apple tv with purchased movies and tv
shows so just keep that in mind if it's not
working for you if you have dunkirk i highly recommend that one and so that's
it for this particular update it's a pretty major update for airpods
it makes them that much better and let me know if you've already
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