{"id":30570,"date":"2020-11-02T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30570"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:42:05","slug":"airpods-pro-rattlegate-service-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/02\/airpods-pro-rattlegate-service-program\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods Pro Rattlegate Service Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/10\/30\/airpods-pro-sound-issues-service-program\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/story\/20\/10\/31\/0043236\/apple-says-some-airpods-pro-have-sound-problems-will-replace-for-free\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/10\/30\/airpods-pro-sound-issues-service-program\/\">\n<p>Apple today announced the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-issues\">a new service program<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/airpods-pro\/\">AirPods Pro<\/a> sound issues, which is designed to address  AirPods Pro  units experiencing static or crackling sounds or problems with Active Noise Cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Affected  AirPods  were manufactured before October 2020, and those who have  AirPods  experiencing issues can take them to Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider for service free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I still haven&rsquo;t seen this problem with my AirPods Pro.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1322471473790001152\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1322471473790001152\">\n<p>Oh look who&rsquo;s finally acknowledging the widespread AirPods Pro issues. I&rsquo;m at my 3rd pair.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/11\/02\/airpods-pro-service-program\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/11\/02\/airpods-pro-service-program\"><p>I have a bunch of friends who&rsquo;ve had these issues with their AirPods Pro, and I don&rsquo;t have that many friends. It&rsquo;s pretty common.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/airpods-pro-rattlegate\/\">AirPods Pro: Rattlegate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"airpods-pro-rattlegate-service-program-update-2023-02-16\">Update (2023-02-16): My AirPods Pro did end up developing this problem, which made them unusable. I got some <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@mjtsai\/109791653178490324\">bad advice<\/a> from Apple&rsquo;s chat support, which delayed things for over a week, and then was initially denied because the repair program had just ended, but eventually Apple agreed to replace them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (also: Slashdot): Apple today announced the launch of a new service program for AirPods Pro sound issues, which is designed to address AirPods Pro units experiencing static or crackling sounds or problems with Active Noise Cancellation. [&#8230;] Affected AirPods were manufactured before October 2020, and those who have AirPods experiencing issues can take [&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":"2020-11-02T21:52:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"f03a0dcc-6b24-4ac0-a0fc-416fb37152f9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-02-16T20:42:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8DoNzGskSsCg_EFvs3FS-Q","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":[1422,416,452,31,1837,30,1666],"class_list":["post-30570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-applecare","tag-hardware","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30570","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=30570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38490,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30570\/revisions\/38490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}