Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and a couple years ago i went over some features for airpods
you might not know however with the introduction of ios 15 there's even more so i wanted to go over
the top five new features that you may not know about that pertain to your airpods now that could
be the new airpods 3 airpods pro airpods max or even the first or second generation airpods
however not all features will work with everything so i'll let you know which ones work with which
now the first feature has to do with announce notifications now before we can announce
notifications from siri in our airpod but now we can announce any notification so if
we go to settings go to notifications you'll see that it says siri announce notifications
if we tap on this you'll see i have this turned on and i have it turned on to headphones i only want
it to do this when it's connected to headphones now you can turn this off and it will announce
them anyway using siri and your speaker but if you only want it to work when you have your air pods
within your ears some beats will work with this as well or other headphones you can turn that
on for any of these apps you see here whether that be telegram or whatsapp so if you want
it to announce when your friend messages you it will let you know and then you can usually reply
with your voice you also can use siri with the word hey in front of it and you can see that
here it says have siri read out notifications from whatsapp siri will avoid interrupting
you and listen after reading notifications so you can respond or take actions without saying
siri with the word hey in front of it so you can use this with that or just listen to it and then
respond it's a really nice feature to use you also have that option for reminders as well so again
notifications and then you go to reminders under reminders we'll scroll down and find it here
there we go reminders you'll see it says allow notifications time sensitive notifications and
then announce so as long as you have announced turned on it will announce those notifications if
they're time sensitive or you can have announce all notifications this will come through your
headphones and let you know what's going on and again it says the same thing it will read out
those notifications to you this is a really nice feature that's built into ios 15. so if you want
to use this completely hands-free you now have the option to do that with many of these things
if you're shopping or more with the introduction of ios 15 if you have airpods pro there's a new
feature that can help you hear someone a little bit better if you're having trouble hearing people
whether that be in noisy environments or just in day-to-day use if you have airpods pro and airpods
pro specifically place just one of them in your ear and there's a new feature called conversation
boost so i'll place one in my ear make sure i'm connected you'll see it popped up here
i got the little ding in my ear that i'm connected and it shows that i'm connected in my volume
the next thing we need is just to simply access this with the little noise or noise option here
in control center so you need to have this little ear if you're not seeing that ear go to settings
go down to control center under control center make sure that you add it here you want to make
sure that you have it as you can see here you have hearing so this option hearing that i have here if
you don't have it just simply add it by scrolling down under more controls and tap the plus once
you have that in your control center you'll have some new options so go to the ear in your control
center scroll down and at the bottom you'll have conversation boost so conversation boost lets me
hear the ambient environment a little bit better and then i can adjust this based on the ambient
noise reduction we can change the tone from brighter to darker and give us a little bit more
amplification as well if we need to hear somebody a little bit better so this is something that's
all new with ios 15 and works with airpods pro it will show up if it's not showing up it is buried
in your settings if you're not seeing it there it's under settings if we go back to accessibility
under accessibility we want to go down to audio and visual under audio and visual you'll see
headphone accommodations make sure that's turned on go down to the bottom tap on transparency mode
under custom transparency mode scroll down you'll see conversation boost it's sort of buried in your
menu but it's much easier to access through the control center and the hearing option so that's
a new option within ios 15 i'm not sure why it's so buried in here but if you're not seeing it in
your control center under hearing you'll need to enable it there now with airpods 3 airpods pro and
airpods max they have spatial audio this is a new feature in ios 15 and some people really like it i
personally really like it a lot some people don't and there's also the option for head tracking
and so what head tracking does is when you have an airpod in your ear so maybe i have air pods 3
and maybe i'm watching youtube or i'm watching netflix i can make it sound as though it's coming
directly from my device the sound would be coming from my device and it sounds just like it's coming
from your iphone or ipad or apple tv and if you turn your head away from your device it
still makes it sound as though the audio is coming from your device so if i turn my head to the right
it'll sound as though it's coming from my left side of me if i turn my head to the left it'll
sound as though it's coming from my right and so on if you don't like this you can turn it off so
some people really don't like this i think it's great for movies but it's not great for music
so if you go into your control center and then under your control center make sure your airpods
are connected so let me hit play here just to make sure my air pods are connected then press or hold
haptic press or 3d press on your volume slider and you'll see it says spatialize stereo tap on this
and it says off fixed or head tracked if you have it on head tracking it will track the direction my
head is turned away from it and again change the audio if i have it fixed it makes it sound like
it's from a fixed place and it won't really change or you can just turn off the overall
effect of it being environmental altogether so if you want to listen to your music that way you can
do that so this is an option that's in ios 15 that you can just turn that off altogether if you want
to now another nice feature that's been there since ios 14 that a lot of people don't realize
is the option to pair multiple airpods to your device so you can share audio or video
and so i have airpods pro here and you'll see i have airpods pro on my phone if we go again to
the control center and we tap on maybe what what we're actually listening to or watching tap the
little airplay button under airplay you'll see the different headphones around so i have my airpods 3
airpods pro or airpods max just tap the other one and now they're both connected maybe i don't want
to use airpods pro i want to use airpods max i can switch between them now i can share the
headphones with someone else and they can have their own headphones and i can use my headphones
so again if you didn't see where that was so go into your control center and under the volume
slider you'll see there's two people there the airplay button is what you want to tap on and
this allows you to select between the headphones again under your volume slider press and hold
and you'll see you have the different volumes for each device so airpods max and airpods 3
and you can change that if they have noise control or not individually so maybe the person with the
airpods max wants it on transparency you can just switch that or you can change it to noise
cancellation or off altogether so that's an option you've had since ios 14 that a lot of people
aren't aware of that's really nice if you just want to share your audio with someone else within
ios 15 apple introduced some new features to sort of focus and try and relax a little bit more and
one of those features is called background sounds and this works not only through the speaker of the
iphone but also the air pods as well the easiest way to enable this is go into your control center
go to the hearing icon or the ear tap on that and you'll see background sounds tap on background
sounds and now you have the option for a bunch of different sounds here so you'll see it says
background sounds if i tap on this we have bright noise dark noise ocean rain or stream and we
can just have this in the background playings to help us focus or maybe drown out some other noise
when we want to turn it back off we can again tap on the ear and then tap on backup background
sounds on the bottom now if you're not seeing this this can also be found in your accessibility
settings so if you go to settings and then go down to accessibility under accessibility scroll down
go to audio and visual under audio and visual you'll see background sounds
and again you can enable them here and you'll see that you have the option to turn it on or off
use when media is playing and more so you have additional options here if you want them this year
with find my you can now better find your airpods should you lose them so with airpods 3 airpods pro
and airpods max we now have the option to use the ultra wide band chip within the new phones
or more recent phones to help us better locate airpods similar to what we can do with air tags
so if we go into the find my app and you can see i've located my airpods max and now we can
find nearby so not only can we play a sound or notify when left behind we can find so if i try
and find them nearby it's going to look for a signal from my airpods and better locate them
and it's going to tell me that they're here if they're far away it will tell me what direction
they're in and i will point to them and then i can make a sound so it says do you want to
play a sound and then it will make a sound and you can better locate them this is new for the newer
airpods and it works really really well not only with air pods max but airpods 3 and airpods pro
so those are some features you may not have been aware of for ios 15 and some of the air pods
if any of these were helpful or you didn't know them i'd love to hear from you in the comments
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