This is a skin-detect sensor which first appeared on the third-generation AirPods.
The case is slightly different, including a loop so you can attach a lanyard and a small speaker designed to help with Find My. You can now locate the case using Apple’s app so it can make a sound to help you find it – on previous AirPods Pro you could only find the earbuds themselves this way.
And once you’re connected, there’s a change to the software. Instead of opening Settings, then Bluetooth and then tapping on the AirPods entry, you simply open Settings and the earbuds will show up as an individual entry near the top. A minor change but useful. As you’d hope, Apple is promising better sound with its new Pro earbuds. Noise-cancelling is claimed to keep double the noise of the outside world at bay. I’m writing this review on a plane and the noise is pretty intense with noise-cancelling turned off. I’m watching Up, for the hundredth time, I imagine, and with noise cancelling on, it’s sublime. With the first-gen AirPods Pro, I could hear it reasonably well, but this is much, much better.
Next up, Personalized Spatial Audio. This is new to AirPods Pro, but works with AirPods third-generation and AirPods Max. You have to set it up with a compatible iPhone with TrueDepth camera. First, you scan your face in exactly the way you did for Face ID. Then, you hold the iPhone to one side, so the camera can see your ear, and wiggle back and forth so it can record your ear shape. You hear a tone when it’s done. And that’s it.
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