hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released a new airpods pro airpods 2 airpods
3 and airpods max beta prior to this there was another beta that was released about a month
or so ago and that was version 5a282d now they've updated it to 5a304a so i'm going to show you how
to install the update and also talk about what's new now the first thing is you need to check your
version number in order to do that just connect your airpods we'll give it a second they're
connected go into settings you should have a new settings option for airpods pro if you're on the
latest betas and then go into that scroll to the bottom and you'll see the version number 5a304a
so that's on the beta and in order to install this it's a little bit tricky and requires a
few different things you'll need a mac and you'll need to be running the latest version of xcode 14
betas so you'll need that on a developer account and once you have that after you've installed it
this time around with beta 3 it was about 7 gigabytes once you've installed that you need
to connect your phone to your mac in order to enable the developer menu so we'll connect it
it's connected here go into settings scroll down and keep scrolling until you see developer so once
xcode is opened on your computer this developer menu should show up however if it's not showing up
go up to your privacy and security settings go to the bottom then go to developer mode
and make sure this is turned on reboot your device go back in and then try over again
and you should have the developer menu once you have the developer menu go into that scroll all
the way to the bottom then you'll see airpods testing pre-release beta firmware go into that
menu option and then you'll see pre-release beta program and then you have the option to install
it on any one of these devices by turning on the little switch here now you can also log collection
that's something that's a little bit new where you can log the collection of the information from
the airpods if you want to actually develop for them and then also install them on any
device that you have now i'm only going to use them on the pro because i want to keep the others
on the regular version but let me show you how to install it now once you have all of that enabled
typically what i recommend is there's two ways to get this installed pretty quickly unfortunately
there's no software update button for this but in order to do it i recommend plugging in your
air pods whichever ones you're updating plug them in make sure you're charged over 50 percent
once you are then go ahead and connect them to your iphone then place them in your ear listen
to music for about 30 seconds this seems to help every single time although some say it
helps some say it doesn't but it seems to work for me after you've listened to music for 30 seconds
put the airpods away close the case shut off the phone
you can plug in the phone as well walk away and about 15 minutes later it will automatically
update however the best method i've found is just plug it into a computer and have it connected to
your iphone do the same thing plug it into a computer and it seems to update even faster so
that's what i've found updates these the fastest now once you've left them for a while go into
your settings check at the bottom and you should have the updated version number of 5a 304a this
updated version includes automatic switching and various bug instability fixes according to apple
now i've listened to this for a little while since i've had it updated probably for an hour or so
and noise cancellation seems greatly improved to me so that's definitely better at least for me and
transparency works great although it did seem to be a little bit louder in the left ear for me for
some reason but in general the noise cancellation seems much better now it is a beta that could
change but it seems to be better this time around also switching modes seem to be faster too
meaning switching between transparency and the noise cancellation modes or just turning that
off or spatial audio it seems to work pretty well for that also spatial audio sounds great
and this update may also enhance things such as the new spatial audio personalization options
within your settings so within those same settings if we go up you'll see personalized spatial audio
if you set this up this is something new that will be out with ios 16 and definitely helps
with overall spatial audio it improves them and i'm sure they're making improvements to
that as well now as far as battery life we don't know if it's going to change anything i really
wouldn't expect any updates especially since these batteries are a couple years old at this point
but in general it seems to be much better and also switching between devices seems much better you'll
see how fast it connects to my iphone it also connects quickly to my mac if i was to start
playing music on mac os ventura it jumps back and forth very quickly as far as additional features
or options i did not see anything different but we still have all of the same settings and i'm able
to control jumping back and forth through songs and everything else with the airpods so i tried
all of the different features seems to work fine without an issue and it's working much better so
i think this will be an improvement but definitely we could use some airpods pro 2. now should you
install the beta updates on your airpods i would say of course if you've already installed the
first version then go ahead but if you haven't i would recommend against this and wait till the
public version comes out as we really don't know how this is going to affect it and it's not easy
to downgrade all you can do is go back into your settings into the developer mode to turn this off
and wait for the public beta to come out or the public version to come out rather then you can
actually remove it from the beta so it's similar to what we have with say an apple watch where you
can't just turn this off and then install a new update because there is no file available to do
that with so you can turn that off and then wait for the next version of the public update and
they will switch to that otherwise i would stay off of this but if you're already on the beta go
ahead and update now if you've found anything else in this update i'd love to hear from you in the
comments below and of course it's available to all of the different airpods i mentioned airpods 2 3
pro and max again if you found anything else let me know in the comments below and of course
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