Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus and vice president of health Dr. Sumbul Desai explain the AirPods Pro’s hearing health features.

The next few years could be a big deal for new Apple releases, according to analyst Ming Chi-Kuo. Writing in a new blog post, Kuo claims that there will be two more Apple products on the way in 2026 — a smart home camera and a more health-centric version of the AirPods.

Apple has released new firmware for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4, the first such updates since iOS 18.1 brought new hearing health features.

According to classaction.org, a class action lawsuit has been filed against the Cupertino giant around sound quality and noise canceling complaints. There's no word about how much money the lawsuit is looking for, but it will apparently cover everyone who bought a pair of the affected earbuds.

Apple is being sued over the crackling and static sounds and other audio quality issues plaguing its very first AirPods Pro model, released in 2019 and sold through September 2022. Shortly after the first AirPods Pro units arrived,

Macworld A class-action lawsuit filed this month accuses Apple of misleading AirPods Pro customers and failing adequately to address an audio defect reported shortly after the product’s launch in 2019.