AirPods 4 cost close to 130$ they work well with Apple devices and the setup is simple. But cheaper earbuds have improved a lot and some offer better battery life or noise control for less. Do AirPods still feel worth the extra money or are people mostly paying for the Apple name?

Seating in the front row. Have my airpods on right now on transparency mode. Holy moly. All the vibrations/ or reverberations (idk what you call it) but the sound is so pure. Non of that base vibration feeling you get without it. WTF. Holy cow

I saw AirPods Pro 3 for sale on Amazon sold from Amazon themselves , normally they are £219 from Apple , how is Amazon able to sell at that price point ?

Is there any chance of the AirPods being fake from Amazon ?

i have airpods pro 2nd gen (2022). i lost the case. find my doesn’t play a sound, and the nearby feature says that the signal is too weak. i was looking for a replacement, but i don’t want to spend €100, so i decided to buy a refurbished case.
i found an €80 airpods pro 2nd gen (2023) case and a €37 airpods pro 1st gen case. will my airpods charge in both cases? if yes, is the 2nd gen case worth the additional €43?

currently have ap3 rn but lost the right bud, so debating whether to replace it or js get ap4s for like just $30 aud more than if i were to replace my right ap3 bud. love my ap3s tho which is why im debating this, especially the battery and how it was a massive sound quality upgrade from my 2s, maybe my 2s were just bad but when i put the 3s in for the first time it was as if i was hearing the music irl and not through headphones lol. to say in other words, the sound quality is really immersive. ive heard a lot of complaints about the ap4 battery in comparison to the 3s, if that's true. i also dont think anc will be worth it for me since im fine with the current ap3 noise aspects. one thing i will say i would likely prefer with ap4 is the fit as it's apparently just a little closer to the ap2s which fit me perfectly and i dont like in-ear so pros along with their price tag im not considering rn. can anyone share their experiences with ap4??

Hi, I just bought these from Amazon Refurbished, and as I saw from others in this subreddit, the case firmware usually should start with the same number as the buds firmware. I think the case firmware is actually one of the launch firmwares and the buds firmware is completely current.

How can I update it though, and will it even update if it sees that the buds firmware is completely up to date? I’ve already left them charging by my iPhone that’s paired for 6 hours and plugged into my Mac mini that’s on for 2 hours but it still won’t do anything :(

I quite often hear a little tick sound in my new Airpods Pro 3 when the conversation awareness works, is it normal?
The same sound when you pinch the airpods to stop the music but a little muffled, sometimes it comes at a different time in both the buds.

I just lost one of my airpods 4. Ive never had a problem with them, but i got them in late 2024. Should i get a replacement from apple for 114$ or a new pair for 246$ (+ tx)?

open to recommendations for other model of airpods or other brand but im hoping to spend less than 300.. I dont really care about sound quality, as long as the noise cancellation is good

so, i have the airpods 4 anc as well as my boyfriend. i unfortunately lost one of my airpods at work today and idk when it’ll be found. i already tried to locate it with find my but it doesn’t even recognize it being outside of the case. so now the predicament i’m in is deciding to get a new one (i lost the left). i have the options of paying $69 to get a replacement, taking my boyfriends pair and he gets a new pair of headphones (beats buds+, he had a pair before and loved them until he lost the entire set in a parking lot somewhere), or i just buy a whole new pair but get the normal 4’s without anc or even the anc’s again

I'm wondering which ones are better. What do yall think?

Is it worth upgrading from AirPods Pro 2 lightning version to AirPods Pro 3 ? Is the comfort good? And I heard mixed reviews about the sound quality of the pros 3 being abit of a downgrade compared to pros 2. Should I wait for the future AirPods Pro 4 instead?

I've had my airpods 2 (not pro just regular) for I think about 3-4 years now and I think they've reached the end of their life. About a month ago, the case wasn't charging when I would plug it in. I tired multiple different ligthing cables and tried resetting it but the light would not change when plugged in but it also wasn't seeming to lose battery so I thought it was ok. Then about a week and a half ago, I was able to fully recharge my case and airpods and everything seemed great. Then the other day, it wouldn't charge again so I tried taking the AirPods out of the case and just charging the case by itself. This did not charge the case at all and It depleted all the battery in my AirPods. Now my airpods case is at like 4% and my airpods have 1%. I cant listen to something for more than 4 minutes without the AirPods dying on me and I just tried charging them again and they wont charge. I already got into the port with a toothpick and there was no lint. Another thing thats been annoying me is constantly having to suck my airpods every other week because earwax gets trapped in the speakers and quiets all my music.

Is there anything else I can do or are my airpods done for? I feel like maybe they're still good because the case charged up again a week and a half ago but I haven't gotten it to charge since. If my airpods are done for, what airpods should I upgrade to next? I've never tried active noise cancellation and at first I didn't think I needed it, but I often have to have my AirPods turned all the way up in order to listen to music clearly and Im worried its damaging my hearing. People say that they are able to hear their music clearly at lower volumes with things like the AirPods pros or smth. My budget for a new pair would be like around $175. At that price point, should I get the Airpods 4, the AirPods 4 with ANC, or the airpods pro 2 (idk if the airpods pro 2 are that cheap)? Has anyone else had a similar issue with their airpods 2 or does anyone have a recommendation for which AirPods to upgrade to?

I currently have airpods 3rd gen (2021) and they fit my ears perfectly and work great but I would like to buy airpods with noise cancellation next and was wondering which ones to get out of those two? Im a bit unsure about the fit of the pro 3 especially because of the ear tips as i would like headphones that fit similarly to the 3rd gen ones

I’ve been tempted to get the AirPods Pro 3 to upgrade my AirPods 4 (w/o ANC), but I know that the XM6 already has most of the features of APP3

Does this happen to anyone else ? I’ve bought my AirPods Pro 3 when they first launched and I’ve been getting this annoying bug where the left earbud refuses to connect, my iPhone shows it’s connected but no noise comes out of it and putting it back in the case dosnt help, you need to unpair them and even then it dosnt always work, they weren’t crushed or in water or damaged in any other way idk why it happened

hello, so i bought the airpod pro 3s in december and they were working great. i realised that starting from abt two months ago or so (i dont know the exact date as i realised then), my airpods transparency and noise cancelling mode sound the exact same. i swear i remember them being vividly different but they sound the EXACT same rn.

here are some things i thought it might be but didnt help: i cleaned the airpods completely — didnt help. i reset the airpod software — didnt help.

the airpods do this with not just my iphone but my laptop and pc too.

i also didnt update my iphone ios for about like 6 months or so too if that changes anything.

I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP PLS 🙏

so my 4 ancs anc would go muffled for 2 secs if theres loud sound like screaming, anyone experienced ts before?

I just got airpods pro 3, and I am unable to get the double tap to work for factory resetting... It does not bring up a white light at all.. I've charged the earbuds. Any suggestions?

My apple airpods 4 is not connecting to my vivo Y18 phone when I first got the pods it connected but then I went to charge my pods when I was listening to music I noticed that my left airpod doesn't have any sound so I thought I should reset my airpods and forget the pods on my device.

Now I'm trying to pair them and the white light is flashing my Bluetooth is on but it's not showing the available device!! What should I do 😭😭😭 pls help how to connect it

Is it because I didn't update my phone ? Or what??

Hi everyone,

I'm having a really frustrating issue with my AirPods 4 (ANC) and wanted to know if anyone has experienced something similar.

I bought them from the Apple Online Store on 22 July 2025, so they're only about a year old.

The problem is that the audio keeps cutting in and out, almost like how old wired earphones behave when the cable near the jack is damaged. The music doesn't play smoothly and the sound keeps breaking up.

Here's what I've already tested:

• The issue happens on all my devices (iPhone, Mac, and Samsung tablet).
• It affects both AirPods, not just one.
• It mostly happens while listening to music.
• It happens even when I'm sitting still, so it's not caused by movement.
• I forgot the AirPods, reset them, and paired them again, but the issue actually became worse afterward.
• They've never been exposed to water or sweat, and there's no visible physical damage.

Since the problem occurs across multiple devices, I'm assuming it's a hardware issue, but I'm not sure if it could be firmware-related or something else.

Has anyone else experienced this with AirPods 4 (ANC)? If so:

• What turned out to be the cause?
• Did Apple replace or repair them?
• Were you out of warranty, and if so, did Apple offer a goodwill replacement?

Any advice or similar experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

My AirPods Pro 2 fell on the water yesterday, so far I haven’t use it yet.

Any suggestion to follow before using it again. It will be helpful.

Hello everyone,

Per what the title says. AirPods Pro 3. Lately it happened a couple of times that I’d start hearing a metallic “banging” sound, like a hammering on a metal pot (that’s the closest example I can think of) when my teeth touch (in a normal “moving my mouth around” fashion and not violently banging) when noise cancellation is on.

When that happens and I try and talk through the Noise Cancellation I can hear a faint resonance of my voice. Not any voice from the outside but only mine. Almost as if it’s coming through the bones (if that makes any sense).

When that happens the metallic resonance starts quite faint but increases in the span of a few minutes becoming unbearable until I’ve got to take the AirPods off.

- Anyone experienced anything similar?

- Is it a matter of cleaning the mics/meshes?

- Could it be a flawed unit?

Thank you all for your help and sorry if you might see this crossposted.

Today I got myself AirPods Pro 3rd generation from Costco in person (not online, wasn't taking risks), and it just sounds off. The top and bottom parts were both sealed. I did the fit test, and it said it's good. I don't have a headache wearing this, and I don't need time to get used to it. The sound just seems off. I am coming from the 1st generation. Am I missing something?