AirPods Pro Now 1,000 Days Old: What to Expect From Next Model

AirPods Pro launched 1,000 days ago and is the oldest current-generation Apple device still on sale.

Apple announced the AirPods Pro on Monday, October 28, 2019. The headphones go on sale immediately, and orders begin shipping on Thursday, October 31.

Apple continues to release AirPods Max in December 2020 and third-generation AirPods in October 2021. After discontinuing the iPod touch earlier this year, which itself is 1,153 days old today, ‌AirPods Pro‌ is the oldest current Apple generation. devices are still on sale, followed by the 2019 Mac Pro, which is 957 days old today.

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Bloombergby Mark Gurman, and Taiwan industry publication DigiTimes has repeatedly said that ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2 will launch in the second half of 2022, so the new model is now likely to be just a few months away. According to reports from multiple sources, the ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2 is expected to have:

It has also been suggested that the ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2 will feature an updated chip, adaptive noise cancellation, heart rate and temperature sensors, hearing aid capabilities, and a USB-C port, but Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman cast doubt on this information.

It looks like the ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2’s sound-emitting charging case will integrate into the Find My app, similar to how users can now play sound from their individual AirPods inside the box to help find them. . This is in line with supposedly leaked photos of the next-generation AirPods Pro, which show the charging case with a speaker hole to emit sound for location tracking, allowing the headset and carrying case to be placed. individual.

Lossless audio support is one of the biggest upgrades expected for the ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2, and there could be ramifications for the future AirPods lineup. All current Apple AirPods products, including third-generation AirPods, ‌AirPods Pro‌, and ‌AirPods Max‌, do not support Lossless audio.

This is because AirPods play audio over Bluetooth, limiting them to the AAC codec. Higher quality Apple Audio Lossless Codecs may need to be streamed directly to the AirPods to circumvent Bluetooth and enable a Lossless listening experience, but it’s possible that Apple could develop an alternative to bypass the limitations. current term of Bluetooth.

Kuo has narrowed its ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2 launch time to Q4 2022, which runs from October to December of the year. This means that the ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2 could launch about three years after their predecessors. For more information, check out our detailed AirPods Pro 2 guide.