It ’s fourth dimension to do that saltation again : Apple has loose a novel genus Beta firmware update for its AirPods wireless headphones , and nobody is sure what it does .
Firmware version 6E188 , up from6B34released in December , is presently in genus Beta and , as reported byMacRumors , is available to developer only . ( Because of this , it has n’t yet replaced 6B34 on Apple’sfirmware listing page . ) It ’s for the second - gen AirPods Pro , and applies to both the USB - cytosine and Lightning editions of that twist .
Apple has been testing iOS 17.4 for about a month and it ’s due to arrive on phones this come week . It ’s likely that this genus Beta will arrive alongside that release or shortly after .
But what does it actuallydo ? Nobody alfresco of Apple in reality know – and that ’s not unusual . A glance at the firmware page listed above shows that the last seven have all listed , under their sacking notes , simply “ germ mend and other advance . ” Apple does n’t really tell people what microcode update change about AirPods behavior , and even that boilerplate text is misleading since often there are only “ large fixes ” and no “ other improvements ” at all .
At times like this the best approaching is to seem at recent news show stories to see if the AirPods model in question have any obvious high - profile hemipterous insect that would call for a fixture . But there is n’t much to speak of concerning the AirPods Pro .
Interestingly , theforum responseto MacRumors ’ word story does feature a numeral of complaints that the update could conceivably be intended to address , but they cover a cooking stove of issues – automatic shift , discrepant Bluetooth connection , exit of charge – none of which have been reported in large volume ; these are more probable to be isolated issues with individual units rather than fundamental job that require to be addressed at the firmware level . ( One cynic even hints that the update could be intend to weaken the earbuds ’ performance to make customers more potential to buy an imminentnew model . )
Orindarily we ’d say that the good style to notice out what the update does is to install it . ( Or rather , wait for it to instal itself . This will mechanically find at some point in the skinny future tense when the AirPods are in their case and charging . ) But as this one is for devs only we ’ll all have to wait until it ’s free to the oecumenical world .
