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With every iOS update, Apple adds new features to AirPods. In iOS 27, AirPods work with Siri AI, and there’s a long-requested custom EQ option.<\/p>\n
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Apple has resisted custom EQ for AirPods for years, preferring to require users to stick to Apple’s audio profiles. That changes in iOS 27, and finally there are adjustable scaling settings.<\/p>\n
When AirPods are connected to an iPhone running iOS 27 and with the latest firmware, custom EQ can be accessed by going to Settings > [AirPods Name] > Sound & Routing > Equalizer > Custom.<\/p>\n
There are low, medium, and high adjustment options.<\/p>\n
Custom EQ is available on AirPods with the H2 chip, including AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2.<\/p>\n
There is a unified settings interface available when AirPods are connected to iPhone. It’s still available under Settings > AirPods, but all AirPods features are better organized and easier to access.<\/p>\n
Transparency, Noise Cancellation, and Adaptive modes are still accessible at the top of the screen for quick changes, but Apple has also added a volume slider to adjust the sound in the same interface.<\/p>\n
Instead of expanded menus for Hearing Health, Call Controls, and Touch, the options are organized into separate menus. Apple has logically grouped the controls into categories including Sound & Routing, Hearing Health, Controls & Touch, Live Translation, Accessibility, Battery, Find My, and Privacy.<\/p>\n
A smarter version of Siri, Siri\u200c AI, works on AirPods with a connected iPhone. When you’re wearing AirPods, you can ask Siri AI questions and make requests.<\/p>\n
Siri AI is not a standalone feature on AirPods, and requires an iPhone that supports it. Siri AI has a long list of new capabilities, detailed in our Siri guide. Apple is rumored to be making AirPods with cameras that will feed visual data to Siri AI, and the current integration is a precursor to that deeper feature set.<\/p>\n
The AirPods Pro 3 charging case features Ultra Wideband (UWB), and works with Precision Finding on the iPhone. With iOS 27 and watchOS 27 update, you can also use Apple Watch for AirPods Pro 3\u200c Precision Finding.<\/p>\n
GymKit works with iPhone on iOS 27, and can sync heart rate data collected from AirPods Pro 3 to exercise equipment such as treadmills and indoor bikes.<\/p>\n
Apple added Name Recognition in iOS 27, so that users who are deaf or hard of hearing are not alerted when someone says their name. It’s a feature that works with AirPods Hearing Health options, and supports more than 50 languages \u200b\u200baround the world.<\/p>\n
Some of the new AirPods features require the H2 chip, and for Siri AI, you’ll need an iPhone compatible with Apple Intelligence. The Precision Finding and GymKit features are limited to AirPods Pro 3.<\/p>\n
New AirPods features require iOS 27 and updated AirPods firmware. Developers have access now, and Apple plans to release a public beta in July. iOS 27 will be launched in September alongside the new iPhone models. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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