apple released a new airpods beta update that's compatible with ios 16 for airpods 2 airpods 3
airpods pro and airpods max hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and i wanted to talk about
what's new in this update and how to install it now you will need to be a developer as it is a
developer beta but we'll talk about what they've updated in it a little bit later the first thing
is the new version the new version once you install it will bring you to version 5a 282.
you can check this on ios 16. it's a little bit different than before as within settings
we have a new airpods section so if we connect our airpods pro you'll see them appear here
so give it just a moment they're connected and you see it appears if we go into that
airpods section scroll down to the bottom we can see our version or serial number model
and what they are so you can see the new version number is 5a282d this particular update does bring
some fixes for the most part and also requires you to be a developer now in order to install this
it's similar to what you have to do if you're not a developer but requires a few additional steps
so the first thing you need to know is if you're going to install the beta you need to be a
developer and have access to an iphone running ios 16 software as well as a mac running mac
os 13 beta and xcode 14. so you'll need mac os 13 venture xcode 14 and then of course the supported
air pods so 2 3 pro and max once you've installed xcode 14 beta and it's a huge install over 10
gigabytes then what you need to do is connect your air pods to your iphone once you've connected
your air pods to your iphone then go ahead and plug in your iphone to your mac once you plug
in your iphone to your mac you want to launch xcode once you've launched xcode on your mac
then you'll have a new developer section under settings so if you go under settings scroll down
you'll see a new developer section that shows up under tv provider it's been
below game center so you'll see it says developer tap on developer scroll all the way to the bottom
and you'll see a new option for airpods testing pre-release beta firmware now they did this
with ios 15 last year and we haven't had many betas since but if we tap on this we can select
which airpods get the beta update so we can update some of them all of them or none of them now once
you turn this on you can then install the update now in order to get this developer section to show
up it actually wouldn't show up for me right away so if you're having a problem doing that
you may want to turn on developer options this is a new option under privacy and security on ios 16.
so under privacy and security scroll down and you'll see developer mode turn on developer mode
you'll reboot then connect it to your mac again if it's not showing up and you should get that
developer settings option so i had to do that in order for it to show up i could not get it
to show up otherwise now after you've enabled all of that what you need to do is make sure your air
pods are charged to about 50 or more including the case and the air pods and then just put them
next to your iphone now typically i've told others in the past you can listen to music for about 30
seconds or more then put them back in the case put them next to your iphone close the case lock the
iphone and walk away that will update them pretty quickly however the fastest way since you'll need
a mac anyway to enable that developer mode is to plug in your air pods to your mac directly and
then again walk away it took all of five minutes and they were updated so it was very quick to do
and that seems to be the best and fastest way to do it so as long as you have a mac plug them in
and you can update unfortunately there's no way to do this with windows so you need xcode in order to
do this once your airpods are updated and like i said before you can check that by going into
settings going into your airpods scrolling to the bottom and you'll see the version number change
once they're updated apple says that they've improved automatic switching and it provided
various bug fixes and stability fixes you can see that here it says this program also enables
debugging of issues by apple with on in log collection and this release includes improvements
to automatic switching and various bug instability fixes now what those bug instability fixes are is
hard to say because well i just installed this but so far it connects nice and fast and i did try the
switching in fact i went into music listened to a song listened to the song for a moment paused
it went to my mac with mac os ventura immediately went to music clicked play and they immediately
were already working there was no connection sound then i s i paused that song went back to my iphone
hit play and it started playing here immediately there was no reconnection sound whatsoever it
just worked so maybe that's the update it just seems to work as soon as you pause music here
switch to your mac start a video or start music it immediately switches so that definitely seems
to be an improvement now if you're wondering if you should install this update i would recommend
against it typically because there's no way to go back until the next update comes out you can go
back into that developer setting and then disable this having the beta but other than that there's
no way to go back so you would disable it by going into pre-release software under beta firmware
turning it off and then when the next public version is released they will allow you to go
to that next version there is no downgrading with airpods so potentially you could brick your air
pods where they wouldn't work anymore so just keep that in mind i typically wouldn't recommend trying
this out unless you know what you're getting into but if you have a pair of airpods pro and you want
to try it out you're on ios 16 you have a mac with xcode 14 and you're a developer then definitely
you could try it out otherwise i would probably recommend against it of course you can see there's
log collection here as well if you want it to collect logs so you can see more information
and so that's everything with this particular update like i said it's available for airpods 2 3
pro and max but again unless you know what you're getting into i probably wouldn't install it sound
quality also seems to be the same and so does noise cancellation so whatever else they updated
is hard to say at this point it's just stability issues maybe connectivity issues and then of
course that automatic switching if you found anything else new in this and you installed it i'd
love to hear from you in the comments below and of course i'll link this wallpaper in the description
like i normally do if you haven't subscribed already though please subscribe and if you enjoyed
the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time