AirPods Pro Case Chime Sound
If you’ve been hearing a chiming sound from your AirPods Pro 2 case when the AirPods are charging, it’s a feature that Apple added with the launch of Hearing Health last year.
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Apple says that the AirPods Pro may play a sound every so often while in the case to ensure the microphones and speakers are working as intended.
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Information on the mysterious chime was highlighted on Mastodon after Apple’s unclear AirPods sounds were discussed on today’s ATP podcast.
Years ago, Apple was a successful company and documented how their products work. These days, Apple is struggling financially, and alas can no longer afford to produce something even as simple as an interactive web page with examples of the sounds that AirPods make and explanations of what those sounds mean.
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"To help ensure that your AirPods microphones and speakers are operating at their best (for example, to help provide high-quality hearing test results), your AirPods may periodically play a quiet chime when they’re in their charging case."
I have no idea what exactly that sentence means, or what problem this behavior solves.
I suppose it produces a sound at a known level to auto-check the quality of its sound production and sound detection. This is quite smart, no ? If either one is defective, the other part will know. Unless both degraded to the same level, but that's very unlikely.
Not sure what a "quiet chime" is, that sounds antithetical, like an odorless fart.
This was driving my spouse and I crazy except we didn't know where it was coming from... at least now we know.
Well, now I know I will never buy these. Because little grinds my gears more than tech making noises when I don't want it to.
