Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and AirPods Pro have recently been getting developer betas
and now airpods pro beta 2 is now available now this update finally has something new in it i
didn't make a video about beta 1 because there was nothing new with beta 2 there's actually a
new feature enabled so i'll talk about that in a moment but first i wanted to show you how to
install the betas now this is for developers only so you'll need a developer account as it will not
be available to public beta testers at least right now that we're aware of you'll also need to keep
in mind that you need not only your air pods pro but they need to be charged to 100 percent
once they're charged to 100 percent you'll also need an iphone running the latest version of
ios 15 and also a mac that's running xcode betas as well as long as you have all of those things
you can install this but i would not recommend installing this even if you're a developer unless
you want to try out the features or develop for it because there is no way to downgrade so in order
to downgrade you would have to give these to apple similar to what you have to do with an apple watch
if you're on the beta program so they can send this in and get it downgraded the same is true
with airpods pro now the first thing we need to do to install this is make sure like i said we have
an iphone and on the iphone you'll need to install a beta profile similar to when you installed the
public beta of ios 15 or developer beta you'll download that from the developer portal and once
you log in you need to go to the more section to download that once you have the beta profile
downloaded you'll see profile downloaded in your settings we'll tap on that then we'll install the
beta profile you can see it says airpods pro seed 2021 we'll tap on install put in our passcode then
we'll have to tap on install in the upper right agree again by tapping install on the bottom and
now it's installed the beta profile so we're good to go here the next thing we need to do is we need
to connect our airpods pro to our iphone so make sure they're connected open them up connect them
make sure they're connected to your iphone and you'll see it's connected
here we can also see that under bluetooth where they're connected under airpods pro
so we're good to go there now the next thing we need to do is we need to plug in our iphone to
our mac so we'll go ahead and do that we'll plug in the iphone to the mac with a lightning cable
and then on the mac once the iphone is trusted to the mac go ahead and open your xcode beta
again that's available in the developer portal once that's open all we have to do is open it
and that's it now once you've opened xcode and your phone is still connected to the computer
go into settings and in settings scroll down until you see developer
developer will show up now that you're plugged into xcode tap on developer
scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see it says airpods testing pre-release beta firmware
tap on this option and then at the top it says aaron's airpods pro if you have other airpods pro
they'll be listed here go ahead and turn on the switch now for me this may or may not crash and
it did crash and if you're having this problem you can fix this by going into your settings
going to general going down to transfer or reset iphone tap on reset and reset all settings now
this will wipe all of your network settings and many other options that you might have set so
in order to get this to work properly you may have to do this if you're on some of the latest betas
i've had to do this as you can see so let's go ahead and do that it won't wipe the phone it will
just reset all of the settings so i'll go ahead and put in my passcode we'll reset all settings
and if this is something you're not comfortable doing then you may want to skip installing the
airpods pro beta until maybe the next beta of ios 15 is out and it doesn't crash any longer
so i'll wait for this to reset and we'll try it again now the phone is rebooted you can see my
wallpaper has reset i had to reconnect to wi-fi and reset up face id so i wouldn't recommend
doing this unless you really want to try the beta software but if you have to reset this we should
now be able to enable the developer option and so i've got the airpods pro connected to my iphone
if we go into bluetooth you can see that it says connected and now if we go back and scroll down to
developer there it is and again we're still connected to the computer and we have xcode
running go into developer scroll to the bottom and then tap on pre-relay pre-release beta firmware
under that you'll see that it's turned on because i was able to turn this on before now it will
actually work now the only thing is is there's no way to force this to update what you have to do is
just close the case and so normally what i do is i plug in the airpods pro and then it says closing
the case will trigger the install of the beta profile then it can take up to 24 hours to update
so that's the unfortunate thing with airpods pro firmware updates whether they're public or not
there's no way to force it you basically have to set it next to your phone close the airpods pro it
triggers the install of the profile and come back later and hope that it's updated and that's all
you can do so once it's updated we'll come back and take a look at what's new now the airpods pro
have finally updated and it took anywhere between 20 to 24 hours for it to install there's no way to
force the install where there's a button like you can with ios 15 betas unfortunately hopefully they
add that in the future at some point i needed to use these before the update had installed
i put them in my ears used them for maybe a half hour put them back in the case connected it to the
iphone put them both on the charger and came back an hour or two later and they had finally updated
and the way you check for the update is based off the version or build number you can check that in
two places go into your settings and in settings it's either under general and about or you can
just go to bluetooth and then under bluetooth you can see here it says airpods pro they're connected
tap on the i and under the eye if we scroll to the bottom at the bottom you'll see it says version 4a
362b that's how you know you're on the latest beta as that's the current build number so that's the
only way to know that it's been updated now it adds a new feature once you have this update so
we'll go back into our settings now back under settings if we scroll down to accessibility
under accessibility if we go down to air pods your air pods need to be connected under air
pods you'll see select your air pods aaron's air pods pro and under this setting we have audio
accessibility settings go into audio accessibility settings go to headphone accommodations
and then do a custom audio setup after you've done the custom audio setup what it does is plays some
sounds and understands how well you can hear or can't and then it adds a new option for you so i
couldn't find the option until this was updated and the new option has to do with being able to
hear conversations or it's something that apple showed off around the ios 15 announcement where
they talked about using your air pods to boost conversation and be able to hear maybe if you have
difficulty hearing it sort of focuses voice into your ears and this is a great feature so if we
take one of the airpods out i'll put one in my ear the way you access this after it's been set up is
you go into your control center and then you have the ear and you need to add this in your control
center settings but if you go into the ear you'll see that we now have a conversation boost at the
bottom we can tap on this turn it off and it won't boost the conversation or we can turn it back on
and now we have the option to change the overall settings for not only amplification but balance
darker or brighter and ambient noise reduction so if there's too much ambient noise we can just
turn that up and it removes the ambient noise so this is a new feature that's been added with
the airpods pro and something that's coming to everyone a little bit later once ios 15 launches
so that's the main update in this update there are no other updates but the conversation boost works
really well i've tested it out in my home and was able to hear people from quite some distance
away depending on what my settings were so it's great to have this option finally and it seems
to work really well and again this is a beta so i wouldn't necessarily recommend it for everyone
but it is an option if you want to try these out and you know that you cannot downgrade your
airpods pro without bringing them to apple and then having them send them in and downgrade them
that way so there's no way around it you can't downgrade so just be aware of that if there's
a problem you will have to send them to apple now as far as future updates and future changes
with these updates we don't really know exactly what will be in them as apple does not state they
don't even have notes for these updates so maybe we'll see an update in a week or so they sort of
silently release and this one actually released quite some time ago and no one really caught it so
it's hard to know if it's updated because it updates on its own once you have the beta profile
installed and there's just no simple way to know what these updates are so hopefully one day
they'll add some update options maybe in your settings just like you update ios so
it would be great to see that here but maybe one day we'll see that now as far as the next
ios update i would expect it as soon as monday or tuesday at this point generally around the 9th or
10th of august and then maybe we'll have weekly updates after that and sometime usually it
seems to be on a friday they release airpods pro updates as well so maybe this coming friday we'll
have another version and if there's something else new in it i'll be sure to let you know
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
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