What's up guys, my name's Brandon.
And today I'm going to be showing you the first 12 things you should do right
after getting your brand new third generation air pods. Now,
whether you've had AirPods or AirPods pro in the past,
or if you're just now buying your first pair,
this video will help you get the most out of your new AirPods.
So we have a lot to cover. So let's go ahead and get right into it. All right.
So the first thing you guys want to do is learn the gesture controls.
So there are a lot of controls to learn,
especially if you're coming from the air pods or AirPods to where you are used
to just tapping on the actual air pot itself. Because with the AirPods three,
it's just like the AirPods pro,
where you actually have to tap and hold on the stem.
So you see the little indention right there that is essentially the button
you're going to be pressing when you have your AirPods and your ears to play or
pause your music, to answer phone calls, to activate Siri and things like that.
All right.
So I just put one air pod in my ear and I'm emulating my ear with my finger
right here. Just to show you guys these gesture controls.
So if we press one time on the stem, you can see what pause the music,
press it again one time,
and it will play the music that is also how you answer a phone call was just
with one little tap right there. Now, if you double tap two presses,
you can see it skips to the next song. Let me do it real quick.
It has to be rapid. As you can see right there, it will switch to the next song.
And if we want to go back to the previous song, that's three rapid process, a 1,
2, 3, and you can see it. We'll go back to the last one.
So it's kind of harder to do with my finger right here, but there you go.
You could see that is how it works.
And then also you can press and hold to activate series.
So you can see Siri pops up right there. So just learn the gesture controls.
It's really easy to get used to,
and those are going to be extremely useful when you don't have access to your
phone. The next thing you guys want to do is set up your basic settings for your
AirPods. So once your AirPods are connected,
go into your Bluetooth settings and then tap on the eye next to the air pods.
And you will see some basic settings right here.
So we have things like automatic ear detection,
which means it will pause when you take one air pot out of your ear and play.
Once you put it back in your ear, I would highly recommend keeping that on.
We also have connected to this iPhone,
so you could set it to automatically or to only connect when last connected to
this iPhone. I think most people would keep that on automatically.
And then down here,
we have microphones so we can change which air pod has the microphone like all
the time, or it could just have it switched between AirPods,
depending on which one is in your ear.
And then we also have optimized battery charging for the AirPods,
just like we do for the iPhone.
So most of the settings are probably gonna stay in default,
but if you did want to change up the microphone,
or if you did want to change one of these settings, this is where you do it.
You can also hear what spatial audio is all about right here as well.
But we're going to talk about that in a moment. Now,
a lot of people don't know that there are more settings for the air pods and not
just inside of the Bluetooth section.
And that's the next thing I want you guys to do is go into your accessibility
settings and then down to air pods.
And you will see your air pods pop up right here. Go ahead and tap on that.
And you will see you have some additional settings right here and that these
might be something you want to change. So you have your press speed right here.
So it says you can adjust the speed required to press two or three times on your
AirPods. So if you want it to be slower,
like we want to not have to tap so rapidly,
you could change that to slower or slowest.
I like having mine on slower and then also the press and hold duration.
So you can adjust the duration required to press and hold on your AirPods.
I like keeping that at default,
but I do like having my press speed a little bit slower that we don't have to
tap so rapidly to maybe go to like the previous song where you have to tap three
times fast. So you can go ahead and change those in right there.
And then also you have special audio head tracking down here as well.
So you can turn it on or off to follow your iPhone,
but it doesn't end there because the next thing I want you guys to do is to
customize your listening experience with headphone accommodations.
So if you go into the audio accessibility settings right here,
and then two headphone accommodations, and then two custom audio setup,
I want you guys to run through this test because it's going to customize your
audio to be specific to what you like. So if you go to continue right here,
if you have an audio gram, you could add it here. If you want to, if not,
you don't have to use it. And then go ahead and put your air pods in your ears.
So it could CSS to look for a quiet environment and it says,
it will take about five minutes. So I'm going to run through this myself.
So I just finished my test and you can see it chose vocal range. For me,
that is what I preferred based on the options I heard and the test.
And you could also change this from slight, moderate or strong, if you want to.
So you can update settings there if you want to. I like keeping mine on slides,
but if you really want that book orange to go up a lot,
you can maybe change it to moderate or strong.
And of course you could always change this. Anytime you want.
You will just get this alert right here that says you're going to make changes
to your custom settings. So now that you have your custom audio setup,
I want you guys to go out and start listening to music with spatial audio.
So I have apple music. So if I go into apple music right here and I play a song,
I will be able to hear the beauty of spatial audio. So this is awesome.
And actually,
if you go into your control center right here and you have to press on the
volume,
this is where you could actually change if special audio is head tracked or
fixed. So head tract is basically just like when you move your head,
when you're listening to music and you have spatial audio turned on,
just move your head a little bit, just side to side,
and you will be able to tell what head tract means.
So if you want that to be fixed and not follow your head movements,
you could change that to fixed here inside of the control center with iOS 15.1.
So if you're not on 15.1, go ahead and update.
You will see this option here in the control center,
or of course you could turn dynamic, head tracking off.
So those are the options there inside of control center.
And I think that everybody should have special audio with head tracking turned
on, or at least keep it at fixed at the bare minimum,
just because it makes audio sounds so much better in my opinion. Now,
I also want you guys to understand that the AirPods three have adaptive ETQ,
which means that basically the sound is going to conform to your size and shape
of your ear. So basically you,
if these AirPods may not fit in your ear perfectly,
the adaptive ETQ is going to make up for the fitment issues,
because it's going to send audio more to the area that's maybe not fitting as
well. So adaptive BQ is going to make the audio overall just sound better.
And that makes a huge difference here with the AirPods three,
especially since they are not so tight, you know, they're not as in my ear,
as much as the AirPods pro it's pretty impressive that they sound as good for
not being down. As deep as the AirPods pro are in my ears. Now,
one of the best new features with the AirPods three is one of these sensors
inside, and that is the skin detection sensor.
And this sensor is going to allow your AirPods to know whether they're touching
skin or not. That way. If you take an air pot out when you pause music,
and let's just say, you took your AirPods out and throw them in your pocket.
Well,
if they're really conformed to your pocket and may think that there's an ear
there and start playing, but now with this new sensor,
the music is not going to continue playing unless it detects skin.
So that is an awesome new feature. That is definitely something.
I think that a lot of people will love with the AirPods three.
Now another awesome new feature with the AirPods three is that they can be
charged via mag safe. So if you have any MagSafe accessories,
if you have the puck, if you have the battery pack, it will be able to charge.
If I go ahead and stick this on right there,
you could see there's a magnet in the back of the air pods,
three case that allows it to stick to a maximum compatible accessory.
So this is awesome, especially because the AirPods don't come with a block,
just a cord. So, you know, if you have something like this,
you don't need a block.
So it's nice to be able to charge your AirPods three via MagSafe.
And then speaking of that battery life,
we also have longer battery life on the AirPods three,
and it's actually pretty impressive.
So we have up to six hours of listening time with a single charge or five hours
of you're using special audio.
And then you have up to 30 hours of listening time at what a fully charged case.
So if your AirPods in your case are both at a hundred percent,
you will get up to 30 hours of listening time.
And then if I throw these air pods on a magazine charger real quick and just
charge them up for five minutes,
that's going to give me an additional one hour of listening time.
So these AirPods three are excellent when it comes to battery life,
even better than the AirPods pro.
The next thing you guys need to do is add the battery widget to your home
screen.
So if we go ahead and add a widget and they go all the way down to batteries,
you can see you have different options to select,
and you will see the battery percentage of your AirPods and the AirPods case.
This is extremely handy that we don't have to open up your AirPods.
And now the lid of your air pods to see the battery percentage.
So I like this one personally, just because it shows the percentages,
but you could change the size if you want to.
And I love having this on my home screen. Now,
the next thing you guys need to do is to understand what the back button does.
So on the back of your AirPods case,
you will see a little circular button and you need to know what that does,
because that is going to be something that could get you out of a little pickle.
So if your AirPods are not connecting, or if you're having trouble, you know,
pairing your AirPods to maybe a windows, computer, or an Android phone,
something that won't detect the AirPods. When you just open up the case,
you want to press and hold on this button to either hard resets or to just put
these in discovery mode.
So that can be found by more than just I-phones and apple products.
And then the final thing you guys need to do is to not worry about your air
pods, getting wet.
And that is because both the air pods and the AirPods case are IPX for
sweats and water resistance. So if you want it to where your AirPods at,
while playing basketball or at the gym, we're going to be sweating a ton,
they will be perfectly fine. And it's the same if they, you know,
gotten the rain or if you accidentally dropped them and the bathtub, or,
you know, if you had them in the shower, that would be just fine.
You just don't want to submerge these in water and, you know,
have them down in water for 10 minutes.
That would not be good because they are not waterproof.
They're just water resistant. So keep that in mind.
I would not worry too much about getting these wets because again, they are,
IPX four rated, but anyways, guys, there, you have it.
Those are the first 12 things you guys should do after getting your brand new
AirPods three. So hope you found these tips helpful. If he did,
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thanks again for watching and I'll see you soon.
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