Key Takeaways
- AirPods were first released in 2016.
- They continually receive updates from Apple with new features, often unnoticed by users.
- Many of these features of AirPods are underutilized, even though they could potentially improve your listening experience.
AirPods are arguably the best product Apple has ever released. They may not have been the first truly wireless earbuds on the market, but you can’t argue that Apple wasn’t the one that popularized them. When I worked at a telecommunications company, I remember calling my manager when AirPods first hit the shelves and asking him to put my AirPods away until the end of my shift while I was filling in at another location. Since the first generation of AirPods was released in 2016, Apple has continually released new and valuable features every year.
Here are six great and underused features of AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd gen). The first four are also supported by AirPods (3rd gen).
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1 Rename your AirPods
Easily identifiable
Put on your AirPods and go to Settings > Bluetooth > tap the “i” to the right of AirPods > Name. From there, you can rename your AirPods to anything you like. Personally, I recommend changing it to a name that’s easy to identify and unique to you. Also, if you bought (or plan to buy) engraved AirPods, change the name to match the engraving.
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2 Answering a call
Also, end them
After podcasts, the biggest use for AirPods is taking phone calls. If you’re not using your AirPods for phone calls, you should definitely do so. Say you’re listening to something on your AirPods and get a call. Press once to answer the call, press twice to end the call.[設定]Go to , tap AirPods, then[通話を終了]You can also select to change end call to a single press.
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3 Mute during a call
Just press once
When you’re on a call with AirPods, you can mute with one press. If you change the call end setting to one press, mute becomes two presses. If you want to change the setting from one press to two presses like me,[設定]Go to , tap AirPods, then[ミュートとミュート解除]Select[2 回押す]Choose.
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Four Customize tap gestures
Hold down
If you haven’t already, go to Settings, select your AirPods, then tap Left and Right under Press and hold AirPods. Within each menu, you can change whether pressing and holding your AirPods will activate Siri or toggle between the two noise-canceling modes.
I like to use “Hey Siri” to launch Siri and switch between transparency and noise cancellation modes – change it to what works best for you.
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Five Personalized Volume
Automatically adjusts the volume according to the environment
Personalized Volume is a handy feature on your AirPods Pro that automatically adjusts the volume based on the noise around you. To turn it on, go to Settings, select your AirPods, scroll down, and toggle Personalized Volume on. Now, the volume will automatically increase when you’re near a noisy environment and decrease when you’re in a quiet environment.
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6 Speech Recognition
Please keep your volume down when speaking
Like personalized volume, speech recognition is a feature that automatically adjusts audio based on your environment. It’s also exclusive to AirPods Pro. This time, however, it adjusts the volume based on the voice it hears. When a voice is detected, the volume will be lowered dramatically and then increased again when the conversation is over. To turn on speech recognition,[設定]Go to and select AirPods, then scroll down and toggle it on.
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