{"id":31661,"date":"2021-02-16T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31661"},"modified":"2021-05-24T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:55:13","slug":"podswap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/16\/podswap\/","title":{"rendered":"PodSwap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/02\/09\/what-to-do-with-old-dying-airpods\/\">Michael Potuck<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/myfreakinname.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/a-service-that-replaces-your-airpods-batteries.html\">Ruffin Bailey<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/02\/09\/what-to-do-with-old-dying-airpods\/\"><p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/airpods\/repair\/service\">Apple&rsquo;s official battery service<\/a> for worn-out AirPods, you&rsquo;re looking at $49 for AirPods and AirPods Pro (per headphone), and the same rate goes for any of the AirPods charging cases.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepodswap.com\">PodSwap<\/a> is a relatively new service, and it looks like a great option to get your AirPods batteries replaced at a nice discount. You can swap in your gen 1 or gen 2 AirPods with dead batteries for a refurbished and sanitized pair with &ldquo;restored battery life.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The company has indeed found a way to replace AirPods&rsquo; batteries with &ldquo;specially developed equipment.&rdquo; You&rsquo;re not getting an official Apple battery here, but PodSwap says it&rsquo;s done independent testing to make sure &ldquo;The batteries we use are similar in performance to your original ones from Apple.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This costs $60 for a pair. They don&rsquo;t yet support AirPods Pro.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/airpods-pro\/\">AirPods Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"podswap-update-2021-05-24\">Update (2021-05-24): <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2021\/04\/16\/refresh-your-old-airpods-with-a-podswap\/\">Jeff Carlson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2021\/04\/16\/refresh-your-old-airpods-with-a-podswap\/\">\n<p>To be clear, Podswap doesn&rsquo;t actually recondition and return your particular AirPods&mdash;that would take longer and require additional tracking. Instead, you receive someone else&rsquo;s old pair with a new set of batteries.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Podswap makes it clear that the set you receive might have minor scratches or wear and tear, but the company also points out that every pair undergoes &ldquo;ultrasonic micro-removal suction of dirt and organic debris, medical-grade solution treatment, and industrial-grade low temperature sterilization.&rdquo; In other words, you&rsquo;re not sharing someone else&rsquo;s earwax.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&rsquo;m delighted by the Podswap experience and happy I can get new life out of my original investment, even if it requires two different physical units.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Potuck (via Ruffin Bailey): With Apple&rsquo;s official battery service for worn-out AirPods, you&rsquo;re looking at $49 for AirPods and AirPods Pro (per headphone), and the same rate goes for any of the AirPods charging cases.[&#8230;]PodSwap is a relatively new service, and it looks like a great option to get your AirPods batteries replaced at [&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":"2021-02-16T22:00:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"aab96ebf-6dca-4869-9d33-cd9795f068a2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-24T20:55:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aqrluv23KSGmdM82XlfBoog","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":[1422,28,452],"class_list":["post-31661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-batterylife","tag-hardware"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31661","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=31661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32597,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31661\/revisions\/32597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}