In a brand new Patent discovered by Patently Apple, it looks like the following AirPods might have some revolutionary new methods of controlling them. One of many keys appears to be a technique detailed the place customers can transfer their heads up and down to manage the quantity of the music that’s popping out of the AirPods.
The patent says these new controls might exist as a result of customers ‘may not have their fingers free whereas listening to AirPods’, and so new management strategies are obligatory. This comes amongst continued rumors that there can be new AirPods someday subsequent 12 months that price below $100, though this patent does not say what fashions the brand new management scheme will come to.
Head shifting controls
The patent particulars the way in which during which the brand new controls will work. The stem is squeezed within the drive contact panel, after which the consumer inclines and declines their head to be able to change the quantity of their music. In essence, every particular person quantity improve and reduce is made through the nodding of the pinnacle.
So anticipate to see some nodding AirPods customers sooner or later sooner or later, as they go to alter the quantity of their music.
It may possibly additionally detect the motion of the pinnacle back and forth, and whereas that is presently solely quantity management, sooner or later it might nicely have completely different head actions for various controls. So you could possibly nod to alter the quantity, after which flip your head aspect to aspect to skip and return a observe.
AirPods controls have all the time been stable, with the wonderful drive contact panels on the AirPods Professional, the quantity sliders on the AirPods Professional 2, and the wonderful bodily controls on the AirPods Max. Apple is all the time trying to innovate, nonetheless, and it appears like this newest patent is simply the following evolution within the AirPods line.
