Apple releases firmware for AirPods, Beats, and the MagSafe charger
Apple has issued firmware updates for eight totally different gadgets right now, and you’ll’t even actually maintain it your self. Multiple AirPods and Beats fashions are getting firmware updates, together with, oddly sufficient, the official Apple MagSafe charger.
The full checklist of merchandise and their new firmware numbers are as follows:
- AirPods 2nd-gen: 5E135
- AirPods Third-gen: 5E135
- AirPods Pro 1st-gen: 5E135
- AirPods Pro 2nd-gen: 5E135
- AirPods Max: 5E135
- EnergyBeats Pro: 5B66
- Beats Fit Pro: 5B66
- MagSafe Charger: 258.0.0.0
What do these firmware updates do? Nobody actually is aware of! Apple by no means says. The firm maintains a help doc for AirPods firmware updates however each replace solely says it gives “Bug fixes and different enhancements,” with only a few exceptions.
What’s worse, it’s not potential 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. Sometimes it occurs rapidly, typically it takes days, and there’s no solution to power it.
To examine the firmware model of your AirPods or Beats merchandise, go to Settings > Bluetooth, then faucet the Info button (i) subsequent to the identify of your AirPods. Scroll all the way 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 connected to your iPhone. Go to Settings > General > 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 in all probability behoove Apple to offer for a solution to power them–even when simply by long-pressing the firmware revision quantity in Settings.