{"id":28862,"date":"2020-05-06T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28862"},"modified":"2020-05-06T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:31:36","slug":"airpods-pro-firmware-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/06\/airpods-pro-firmware-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods Pro Firmware Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/macoclock\/we-need-to-talk-about-airpods-pro-4bbd2533e031\">Joseph Curran<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/05\/04\/airpods-pro-firmware-problems\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/macoclock\/we-need-to-talk-about-airpods-pro-4bbd2533e031\"><p>Those first two weeks with AirPods Pro were like heaven on earth. Then came the sting in the tale and the start of this ongoing saga: a firmware update.<\/p><p>AirPods firmware updates happen automatically. And unlike with iOS and macOS updates, they can&rsquo;t be stopped. You&rsquo;re getting the update whether you like it or not.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>2B588 weakened the noise cancellation, and this was quickly picked up on by many users. On Apple&rsquo;s support forums, a thread was created on November 24th entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/250887615\">AirPods Pro firmware 2B588 reduce the noise cancelling capability<\/a>. As of today, it has an astronomical 39,000 views and runs to 37 pages.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>To make matters even worse, this month (April 2020) it emerged users were being shipped replacement AirPods running an unreleased firmware version, 2D3, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/04\/08\/replacement-airpods-unreleased-firmware\/\">rendered their product unusable<\/a> due to a mismatch between the left and right pods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/05\/05\/apple-updates-airpods-pro-firmware-to-version-2d15\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/05\/05\/apple-updates-airpods-pro-firmware-to-version-2d15\/\"><p>Apple today released a new firmware update for the AirPods Pro, upgrading the previous firmware, version 2C54 or 2B588, to the new firmware, 2D15.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>AirPods Pro  firmware updates often include performance improvements, bug fixes, and feature tweaks, but we may not find out what&rsquo;s new as Apple does not provide any kind of release notes for   AirPods  updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienPetrilli\/status\/1257924607048376320\">Damien Petrilli<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienPetrilli\/status\/1257924607048376320\">\n<p>Latest AirPods Pro firmware doesn t fix noise cancelling. It might even be worst esp with high-pitched noises.<\/p>\n<p>At this point we should be able to ask for a refund. This is not the product I purchased and updates are forces upon the user by Apple without choice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m still happy with the noise cancellation on mine, though I don&rsquo;t think I ever got to experience the &ldquo;good&rdquo; firmware.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/05\/05\/compared-pixel-buds-versus-airpods-and-airpods-pro\">Pixel Buds versus AirPods and AirPods Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/15\/airpods-pro-thoughts\/\">AirPods Pro Thoughts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/airpods-pro\/\">AirPods Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Curran (via Adam Engst): Those first two weeks with AirPods Pro were like heaven on earth. Then came the sting in the tale and the start of this ongoing saga: a firmware update.AirPods firmware updates happen automatically. And unlike with iOS and macOS updates, they can&rsquo;t be stopped. You&rsquo;re getting the update whether you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-05-06T18:31:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"2aef7a85-fd62-4ffc-950b-2df14e753dd9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-05-06T18:31:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKu96hf1iT_yVCy3xTnU92Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1422,95,31,1667,30,1666],"class_list":["post-28862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-audio","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28863,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862\/revisions\/28863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}