Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released new firmware for the latest
airpods 3. the firmware is only available for airpods 3 and for some reason they haven't
updated airpods 2 airpods pro or airpods max so if you have airpods 3 the update's available now
to all airpods 3 owners and it has a new firmware version now i want to share with you how you can
check that how to update and then the changes and updates a little bit later if you want to
jump to any section in this video about it i'll leave the time codes in the description below
now the first thing is if you want to see what version they're currently on you can do that by
connecting them to your iphone just make sure they're connected you can see it in a couple
places but i find the easiest place to find them is within your bluetooth settings so on your phone
go into settings then go to bluetooth then find your airpods 3 and tap the i next to airpods 3.
once you've tapped on those down at the bottom you can see the actual version currently i'm on
the latest version which is 4C170 this is the new version of the airpods update and so if you
have 4c170 you're already updating however if you want to update there's no specific way to actually
force the update but there is a couple things you can do now in order to update your air pods
three make sure they're connected to your device so once they're connected you can see that here
and also go under your settings in bluetooth once it's connected what you want to do is grab your
charging cable and plug it in now typically what i recommend is before you do anything else is
take these out of the case go into the music app and maybe listen to 30 seconds of music
once you've listened to about 30 seconds of music put them back in the case leave your case plugged
in and put them next to your iphone close the lid plug in your iphone and charge your iphone this
usually speeds it up but you don't have to do that and then just maybe lock your iphone and walk away
typically within 15 minutes it will update that's all i do every time i actually did this while in a
car it was plugged in in my car i just connected them disconnected them then i started driving by
the time i got to where i was it was already updated so you definitely can update it with
cellular and it should work just fine so right now it's updated and as far as what's new in
this update well apple has not specified anything specifically but i have noticed a couple things
the first thing is they connect much quicker so not only do they connect quicker when i
put them in my ears they actually connect both of them quickly before i would have it
maybe connect in my left ear i'd hit a song and hit play and then it would connect in my right
ear and start playing this seems to have fixed that problem in this update there's no notes or
anything from apple as to what they've updated but that seems to be better also another thing
i noticed is when i was using my mac looking for notes for this video preparing for this video
put both of the airpods in my ear went to my mac and it immediately connected just by clicking on
the screen it connected then i went back to my iphone went back hit play and immediately it
connected to my air pods so you'll see there we'll try it again it connected right there
and it immediately connected and started playing music so it seems like it's a connectivity fix and
it works really really fast now again apple has not specified anything specifically in this update
but that definitely seems to be improved over the previous ones now as far as updating this like
i've said many times before i would love to see some sort of update process that doesn't involve
hopefully waiting for it you'll see i had some glitches on my phone there with a beta but if we
go into general and software update i would love the options for the air pods to have something
similar whether that be a separate app like we have for apple watch or maybe just within the
about section or updates altogether but either way it seems to be improved and working much better
as far as connectivity now as far as when apple will update airpods pro and airpods max we have
no idea as far as that goes so we'll have to wait and see it could be tomorrow could be in a couple
days we just don't know as it's random and there's no quick way to know when they're going to update
these so i really wish apple would improve this in the future and hopefully resolve this issue
now as far as those of you that watch my other videos and want to know when ios 15.3 beta 3 or
maybe release canada is coming out typically that should be as soon as tomorrow i would expect the
update on wednesday or thursday at the latest like they did last year last year apple released ios
14.4 release candidate on a thursday so we could see it as late as thursday with a final release
maybe in a week or so possibly before the end of january however if we see beta 3 tomorrow instead
of a release candidate i would expect to release later into february either way i would expect some
sort of beta release as soon as tomorrow hopefully tomorrow but as late as thursday maybe even friday
but either way that's it for the airpods 3 update to version 4c170 not a whole lot going
on but connectivity definitely seems improved and much quicker between devices so hopefully you've
had the same experience if you've noticed anything else new i'd love to hear from you in the comments
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