what's happening everyone my name is Alex and welcome back so about a month and a half ago apple
released the third generation of the Apple Airpods and of course a few weeks after that we started
getting the fake ones these ones here are fake but they look identical to the original ones so in
today's video i'm gonna show you the differences between the original ones and the fake ones and
hopefully by the end of this video you're gonna have enough information so you can easily spot the
fake ones because nobody wants to spend about 200 on a pair of fake earbuds now it's always
recommended to buy your apple products directly from apple or an apple reseller if you buy them
on the facebook marketplace or ebay or stuff like that there is a good chance that they may be fake
so keep that in mind all right so we're gonna start by checking out the boxes and you're gonna
be able to see the original box on the left hand side of the screen so the red side of the screen
and the fake ones on the right hand side of the screen so the blue side of the screen
okay so looking at the boxes yes the boxes do look pretty similar on the front on the back and
on the sides now the box on the original ones is a bit more towards yellow i'm gonna say where the
color of the box of the fake ones is a bit more towards right and of course the ink quality on
the original ones is a bit better the stickers on the side of the box here are also a bit different
but keep in mind that the stickers may actually be different depending on the market where you're
buying the airpods so for example if you're buying this box in canada the stickers here are going to
be different than if you're buying this box in europe so it's going to be difficult to tell
just by looking at those stickers now the easiest way to spot if you're looking at a fake or a real
box is on the back of the box so when you pull on those tabs on the back of the box the original box
is very easy to open those tabs are almost made out of this plastified paper so they are very
easy to open as soon as you pull on them they open but on the fake box those tabs are actually made
out of paper so when you pull on them they'll kind of break so that is the first thing that
you should look at the way the box actually opens on the original box they're super easy to open
and they look very clean once some you pull those off on the fake box they don't look
that clean once um you actually manage to pull them off as soon as you open the boxes you'll
get to the user manuals and the user manuals are pretty similar but once again the user manuals may
actually be different depending on the market where you're buying the airpods so once again
if you're buying these airpods in canada the user manual may actually be different than if you're
buying this in china so keep that in mind not that big of a difference for the user manuals
as soon as you remove those booklets you're gonna get to see the charging cases for the airpods and
you're gonna have to pay attention to that plastic wrap that we have on the charging case on the
original box that plastic wrap is perfect on the fake one doesn't look that great so once again
this is another thing that you should look for the fake ones will probably have that plastic wrap not
looking that um great so if you see something like that you're definitely looking at the fake box as
soon as you remove the charging cases you're going to be able to access the cable on the original
box the cable doesn't actually move in the box on the fake one the cable kind of moves around
not to mention that thing that covers the cable is made out of cardboard on the original box where
on the fake box is made out of cheap plastic so another thing that you can look at so you can tell
if you're looking at a fake or real box next we are looking at the charging cases themselves and
i have to say the charging cases do look pretty similar so very difficult to spot the fake ones
even that led that we have on the front of the case there it has the same grayish looking color
so with the previous fakes that i've seen that led was actually black well that's not the case
anymore with these ones so the cases do look pretty similar on the front on the back and then
basically on the side so everywhere now we are going to be able to spot the fake ones from the
original ones is as soon as you open them so when you first open these the original ones are going
to be flashing white but the fake ones are going to be flashing green so look for that the first
time you actually open the cases the original ones will flash white the fake ones will flash green
inside the charging cases at the top here are also going to be able to see the serial number now the
serial number seems to be in a different location on the original ones and on the fake ones so maybe
look um and see if the ones that you have are like mine so the original ones that i have here now the
serial number on the case here does match the boxes so the serial number on the original ones
matches the box of the original one and the serial number on the fake ones here on the case
does match the box of the fake ones okay and since we are talking about serial numbers as i
said the serial number on the charging case is the same um serial number that we have
on the box and this is the same for the fake ones and the originals now if you remove the
airpods you're gonna notice that on the original ones each airpod has a different serial number
so you have the same serial number on the charging case and on the box but the airpods themselves
have different serial numbers that's not the case on the fake ones so the fake ones have the exact
same serial number on the charging case on the box and on each airpod so keep that in mind if
you have the same serial number on all four of them so the case the box and the airpods
you're probably looking at the fake ones so the original ones don't have the same serial number
on the actual um airpods looking at the airpods themselves well they do look quite similar so it's
going to be difficult to tell mostly if you don't have both of them together so the original and the
fake ones if you just have one pair in your hand i did notice that the original ones are a bit
heavier but again if you don't have both together to look at them you're gonna not gonna be able to
tell i did notice however a difference so if you look at the top here on the original ones we have
a little mesh that probably covers a microphone on the fake ones we do have something similar looking
but this is just a piece of plastic there is no actual mesh in there so we probably don't have the
same microphone placed in the same spot as we have on the original ones but that is really the only
difference that i've noticed between the original ones and the fake ones both the fake and the real
ones also have that sensor and they will pause the music every time you take them out of your ear and
they will start the music back up whenever you put them back in a year and they do work the same so
every time you take them out of your ear the music will stop you put them back and the music will
start them once again so no difference for that i've also noticed a difference for the pairing
process so when you first open the charging case the message that pops up on your iphone will be
different between the original ones and the fake ones the fake ones will say not your uh apple um
airpods so look out for that message if you're seeing that the message that you're seeing on
the screen right now you're probably looking at the fake ones there is a good chance that you're
only going to see that message the first time you actually get to open the case and pair them to
your phone i've also noticed another difference under your phone's settings so if you go to
general and about and you click on the airpods the original ones have the same serial number that
you'd get on the box and on the charging case one of the fake ones um the serial number that shows
up in there is different than the serial number that we have on the charging case and on the box
so once again something that you should look for if you are ever buying some original apple
airpods um the serial number on the charging case will be the same serial number that you're going
to be able to see on the phone well in this case so these ones that serial number is different
and lastly sound quality well this time around the fake ones don't sound as good as the original
ones with other fake ones that i've tried in the past the sound quality was very close to
the original ones well with the original apple airpods the third generation these ones have
more bass they get louder when compared to these fake ones now again if you've never listened to
the original ones it would be difficult to tell if you're listening to the fake ones or the original
ones because you're not gonna know how that it's supposed to sound i can tell you because i was
able to put this in my ear and then put this in my hair and listen to the same song so yeah these
are the fake apple airpods the third generation and these are the original ones hopefully this
video was useful hopefully by now you have enough information so you can easily spot the fake ones
so you don't end up buying the fake ones believing that you're buying them the original ones
thanks for watching don't forget to press that like button and i'll see you guys in the next one