The AirPods Max are present implicit 2 years old, but determination is nary motion of a caller exemplary contempt a increasing fig of upgrades and features that could travel to the headphones.
Launched successful December 2020, the AirPods Max are the oldest AirPods inactive successful Apple's merchandise lineup. Despite being the astir costly AirPods astatine $549, the AirPods Max miss retired connected a ample fig of features that came to the second-generation AirPods Pro earlier this year.
With the H2 chips, importantly improved Active Noise Cancellation, Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, Adaptive Transparency, skin-detect sensors, the U1 chip, and Precision Finding, determination are a plethora of notable features that are yet to travel to the AirPods Max. The headphones could besides payment from a refreshed enactment of colour options, MagSafe oregon USB-C charging, Conversation Boost, and sweat and h2o resistance.
In 2020, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that the AirPods Max, thought astatine the clip to beryllium called "AirPods Studio," had suffered from respective improvement challenges, specified arsenic problems with the headband being excessively tight, starring to aggregate delays and scaling backmost of functionality. It seems plausible that aft respective much years to iterate connected the aspects that did not marque it into the archetypal mentation of the device, the second-generation AirPods Max could present immoderate of these initially scrapped features.
Beyond these rumors, the presumption of the next-generation AirPods Max is not wholly wide astatine the contiguous time. In May 2021, Gurman said that Apple was not actively moving connected second-generation AirPods Max, but it is not known if this is inactive the case. The astir caller notation of a second-generation exemplary was the Gurman's assertion successful October that the adjacent mentation of AirPods Max volition feature USB-C and motorboat "by 2024." Seeing arsenic Apple seems to motorboat 1 caller AirPods merchandise per year, the AirPods Max could logically beryllium adjacent up for a refresh – but this could inactive beryllium respective months away.
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