Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple updated AirPods Pro,
AirPods 2 and AirPods Max with a new firmware update.
That brings features that we've wanted with iOS 15 for some time.
Now this will bring it to version 4A400,
and we'll go over how to update in just a moment,
but they also updated three beats products as well.
So if you have beats solo pro, power beats 4,
or power beats pro you'll have an update as well. However,
some of the features may not be available. Now,
if you're wondering how to update, well,
this is a process I've covered in a separate video.
I made a full walk-through step-by-step,
but it's not as easy as just going to software update and telling it to update.
Instead, what you need to do is Perrier AirPods to your phone.
So you want to pick up your phone, open up the case,
make sure they're paired and make sure they're paired by going to settings,
going to Bluetooth and make sure they're connected. You'll see,
it's sort of spinning here and we'll give it just a moment.
Now it says connected and that lets you know that you're connected. Now,
one thing I do recommend to make this a little bit more speedy process is put
them in your ear, take them out of the case, put them in your ear,
maybe play some music and then put them back in once you've done that plug
in the case. So grab a power cord and then go ahead and plug in the case.
You'll see it's still connected. And then close the case,
set your phone down and sometimes even charge your phone as well.
Turn it off to the lock screen or just shut it off and walk away usually within
15 minutes or so if you have a Y wifi connection or a good connection,
it will update and you'll be good to go the way you can tell if it's been
updated as you come back to your phone,
unlock your phone and go back to your Bluetooth settings under your Bluetooth
settings. Tap on whichever device you're trying to update.
So let me unplug this and we'll connect the AirPods max here.
So here are the AirPods max. We'll put them here,
we'll give it just a moment to connect. They're connected.
And now we want to go under our Bluetooth settings and tap on the eye.
So we'll tap on the eye. Once you scroll down to the bottom,
you'll see there's a version number there. It says 4A400.
This is how you know you're on the latest version.
And once you're on the latest version, you'll have a couple of new features.
Now, if it's not updated, you will have to try it a few different times.
Sometimes they update right away other times they don't.
And also if you're on the beta for AirPods pro you'll need to uninstall that
beta profile and then try again.
So let's go back and talk about the new features.
Now I have my AirPods pro connected and the first new feature is one we've
wanted for quite some time and they finally added it.
And that's conversation boost conversation boost was something promised with iOS
15 and it's working on both iOS 15.0.1,
as well as iOS 15.1 betas. I've tested this out on both just to make sure.
And if you want to enable this feature, you can do that by first,
putting your AirPods into your ear and you'll see,
I have it connected in the control center. Go to settings under settings,
go down to accessibility under accessibility,
go down to your AirPods under AirPods pro tap on that,
scroll down again, go to audio accessibility settings.
Now at the top where it says audio, tap on headphone accommodations,
then scroll all the way to the bottom and go to transparency mode.
They've really buried this into the menu.
So under transparency mode go down and turn on conversation.
Boost conversation boost is enabled. Now you can turn it on or off,
and now you can use this to hear someone a little bit better in your ear with
your AirPods pro when they're nearby and speaking.
So you can adjust things such as ambient noise reduction.
And if you want to more easily access this,
you can add this to your control center under your hearing settings.
So you'll see, I have the little ear here and those are my audio settings.
So if you want to more easily access this, instead of going into a buried menu,
once you've turned it on,
you can go to your control center under control center.
Make sure to add hearing. Once you've added hearing,
you'll have that in the control center.
So now go to your control center when your AirPods pro are in your ear,
tap on the ear, scroll down and you'll see there's conversation boosts.
So you can turn that on or off and reduce your ambient noise.
Turn that on or up or down and just reduce this or increase this to make it a
little bit easier to hear overall. So they've added that in.
It's a really nice feature. It's finally here with iOS 15 and the new update.
The other thing they've added that's really nice has to do with find my,
we can now find our AirPods Pro or AirPods Max using the,
find my app and using it similar to an air tag where it will help you locate it
based on your proximity to it using the U one chip. So if we go into find my,
let me do that now I'm in the find my app under my AirPods, max, tap on,
find nearby and it will try to locate them just like it does with
maybe air tags. So you'll see, as I moved them away, it says space,
gray AirPods, max here, look for your item nearby.
So you can track this based on its proximity to the device and it will tell you
the direction to go. So you now have that option.
You can also make it make a sound. So we'll play a sound.
So they're playing a sound now and you can do that again one more time.
And so we can now locate our AirPods Max using find my aura AirPods pro
as well using find my to locate them based on proximity to our iPhone.
Now those are the major features in the update. Unfortunately,
apple does not tell us if there's any additional features,
whether that be bug fixes improvements to transparency or noise
cancellation. So we'll have to wait and see.
And also some people were having issues with battery life,
with AirPods pro or AirPods, max, hopefully this resolves those issues for you.
But at this time that's all we know about the update.
We gained a couple of features and hopefully they've fixed some things as well.
If you found anything else, let me know in comments below. And of course,
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper,
I'll link it in the description like I normally do.
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