Apple is on the point of Present big news for AirPods. Or at least to that, leaks such as 9th5mac, which reveal a good list of features that will land in the most recent models by the hand of iOS 26 and the rest of the operating systems that Apple will present at WWDC 2025.
Of course, the leaks suggest that They will not reach all the AirPods. It will not be necessary to buy a new announced model (in fact, new Airpods are not expected at the moment), but it will be necessary to have the AirPods Pro 2 or AirPods 4 headphones, which would be ready to make their equipment receive the new features.
New head gestures
From the hand of iOS 18, we find the possibility of moving the head down or up to accept or refuse notifications with the AirPods. As 9TO5mac revealed, with iOS 26, you will go a little further by incorporating More gestures to perform other actionsas the volume setting.
All this is something that is done thanks to sensors such as the gyroscope that the Airpods integrate. Thanks to them, you can interpret the movement that is carried out with the head and because of this execution of the planned actions. However, as with those we already have, They aim to be optional gestures which can be deactivated in the adjustments.
Not of his if we fall asleep
There are those who usually sleep with the earphones. This can be a good way to call sleep when you have trouble sleeping. According to what the sources say, in apple, they are aware of it and introduce a Automatic sleep detection To take a break, reproduction when we sleep.
He is not known with certainty How this action will be performedBut it is likely that we also take into account the movements we make, in addition to communicating with the Apple Watch, a device that already has this function according to its health sensors. Likewise, it seems that in Future AirPods Pro 3, which would come with a pulsation counter, detection will be even easier.
Improvement of voice recording
The iPhone already has a vocal isolation option that improves the quality of the calls and also works with AirPods. However, Apple could add a Intelligent equalizer which has so far been exclusive to the iPhone 16 Pro.
In these devices, when a video is recorded, it is possible to modify it and find three vocal options. Thanks to artificial intelligence, he detects what the background noises are and what elements of the recording are important to offer these three options. Something similar would reach airpods with iOS 26 according to 9TO5MAC.
Room control through the Ratillas
As if a tribute to the ears classics, the AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 could admit the possibility of Open the camera and take photos through an impulse in their pins. This is something that these conventional headphones with cable have a button specifically in their cable.
In this regard, there are doubts, because currently the pin admits the pulses to suspend the reproduction, go to the next song or go from the mode of noise cancellation to the environment (and vice versa). It is possible for a new panel to be added in the settings of the iPhone to which configure and choose between the available actions.
An iPad to govern them all
With a clear educational approach, although open to all circumstances, Apple's idea is Facilitate the use of several airpods in a single iPad. In the versions with Bluetooth 5.0 and later, it is possible to connect more than a pair of headphones to a device, although its configuration is not always intuitive. In 9TO5MAC, they reveal that the iPados 26 will bring larger facilities so that everything is easier.
There are only days left to know everything
As we have explained in the introduction, it will be the WWDC 2025 conference which will be used to present all the new features of iOS 26 and the rest of the operating systems. It will be this Monday June 9 With an event that can be followed in streaming from 7:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time).
Of course, although in this case, we know the news of the AirPods, something that has happened in previous years, does not mean that we will see all the changes immediately. In fact, operating systems will be In beta throughout the summer And the final launch will probably be in September. In 9TO5MAC, they affect that, although they are presented now, the news of the Airpods could come later.
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