Sound technology
- Special Apple high-excursion driver
- A special amplifier with a wide dynamic range
- Personalized surround sound with dynamic head tracking
- Adaptive EQ
Sensors
- Dual beamforming microphones
- Microphone facing inward
- Skin recognition sensor
- Accelerometer for motion detection
- Accelerometer for speech detection
- Force sensor
Chip
H1 headphone chip
Controls
- Press once to play or pause media
- Press once to mute or unmute the sound.
- Press twice to end call
- Double press to skip to the next song
- Press three times to skip to the previous song
Sweat and water resistance
- Sweat and water resistance (IPX4): AirPods and charging case
Size and weight (each)
30.79 mm
- Height: 30.79 mm
- Width: 18.26 mm
- Depth: 19.21 mm
- Weight: 4.28 grams
46.40 mm
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Height:
46.40 mm
- Width: 54.40 mm
- Depth: 21.38 mm
- Weight: 37.91 grams
Charging box
- The Lightning charging case requires a Lightning connector. The MagSafe charging case works great with the MagSafe charger and Qi-certified chargers or chargers with a Lightning connector.
Battery
AirPods
- Up to 6 hours of listening time on a single charge (up to 5 hours with Personalized Surround Sound enabled)
- Up to 4 hours of talk time on a single charge
AirPods with Lightning Charging Case or MagSafe Charging Case
- Up to 30 hours of listening
- Up to 20 hours of talk time
Just 5 minutes in the box is enough for 1 hour of listening or about 1 hour of talking
Connection
- Bluetooth 5.0 wireless technology
Box contents
- AirPods
- Lightning charging case or MagSafe charging case
- USB-C cable with Lightning connector
- Documentation
Accessibility
Accessibility features help people with disabilities get the most out of their new AirPods.
Features include:
- Live listening
- Headphone volume levels
- Headphone adjustments
System requirements
- iPhone and iPod touch models with the latest version of iOS
- iPad models with the latest version of iPadOS
- Apple Watch models with the latest version of watchOS
- Mac models with the latest version of macOS
- Apple TV models with the latest version of tvOS
Compatibility
iPhone models
- iPhone 15
- iPhone 15 Plus
- iPhone 15 Pro
- iPhone 15 Pro Max
- iPhone 14
- iPhone 14 Plus
- iPhone 14 Pro
- iPhone 14 Pro Max
- iPhone 13 mini
- iPhone 13
- iPhone 13 Pro
- iPhone 13 Pro Max
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone X with
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8
- iPhone 8 Plus
- iPhone 7
- iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone SE (3rd generation)
- iPhone SE (2nd generation)
- iPhone SE (1st generation)
iPod models
- iPod touch (7th generation)
Mac models
- MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, starting 2015 – 2017)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, mid-range) 2012 – early 2015)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, mid-range) 2012 – 2017)
- MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018 – 2020)
- 13-inch MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
- 13-inch MacBook Air (M2, 2022)
- 15-inch MacBook Air (M2, 2023)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, end 2012 – early 2015)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, mid 2012 – mid-2015)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid-range) 2012 – 2020)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, mid-range) 2012 – 2019)
- MacBook Pro, 13-inch (2020, two ports)
- MacBook Pro, 13-inch (2020, four ports)
- MacBook Pro 13-inch (M1, 2020)
- 13-inch MacBook Pro (M2, 2022)
- 14-inch MacBook Pro (M1 Pro or M1 Max, 2021)
- 14-inch MacBook Pro 1 (M2 Pro or M2 Max, 2023)
- 16-inch MacBook Pro (M1 Pro or M1 Max, 2021)
- 16-inch MacBook Pro (M2 Pro or M2 Max, 2023)
- MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
- iMac (21.5-inch, end 2012 – 2017)
- iMac (27-inch, end 2012 – end of 2013)
- iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, end 2015 – 2019)
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, end 2014 – 2020)
- iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021)
- iMac Pro (2017)
- Mac mini (end) 2012 – end of 2018)
- Mac mini (M1, 2020)
- Mac mini (M2 or M2 Pro, 2023)
- Mac Studio (M1 Max or M1 Ultra, 2022)
- Mac Studio (M1 Max or M1 Ultra, 2023)
- Mac Pro (end) 2013 – 2019)
- Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
