Apple has issued firmware updates for eight completely different units right this moment, and you’ll’t even actually handle it your self. A number of AirPods and Beats fashions are getting firmware updates, together with, oddly sufficient, the official Apple MagSafe charger.
The total record of merchandise and their new firmware numbers are as follows:
- AirPods 2nd-gen: 5E135
- AirPods Third-gen: 5E135
- AirPods Professional 1st-gen: 5E135
- AirPods Professional 2nd-gen: 5E135
- AirPods Max: 5E135
- PowerBeats Professional: 5B66
- Beats Match Professional: 5B66
- MagSafe Charger: 258.0.0.0
What do these firmware updates do? No one actually is aware of! Apple by no means says. The corporate maintains a help doc for AirPods firmware updates however each replace solely says it offers “Bug fixes and different enhancements,” with only a few exceptions.
What’s worse, it’s not doable to truly replace the firmware your self. Firmware updates are delivered when your AirPods are charging and inside vary of a paired iPhone, iPad, or Mac that’s linked to the Wi-Fi. Typically it occurs rapidly, generally it takes days, and there’s no option to drive it.
To examine the firmware model of your AirPods or Beats merchandise, go to Settings > Bluetooth, then faucet the Data button (i) subsequent to the identify of your AirPods. Scroll right down to the About part to search out the firmware model.
To examine the firmware of your MagSafe charger, have it plugged into an influence provide and hooked up to your iPhone. Go to Settings > Normal > About > Apple MagSafe Charger and search for the firmware model. The MagSafe charger updates its firmware when linked to an influence adapter and an iPhone that’s linked to Wi-Fi.
Firmware updates for AirPods usually are not unusual, and it will most likely behoove Apple to supply for a option to drive them–even when simply by long-pressing the firmware revision quantity in Settings.
