Apple’s best wireless earbuds, the AirPods Pro, are overdue for an update. Here’s what we think will be announced in September 2022 for the AirPods Pro 2.
Apple’s best wireless earbuds — the AirPods Pro — have been with us since 2019, which is a long time in the tech world. But now that we’re only days away from Apple’s upcoming September iPhone 14 event, the interwebs are overflowing with talk of the AirPods Pro 2, or whatever the heck Apple ends up calling them.
And the unsubstantiated rumors continue to fly, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now certain that we’ll see new AirPods Pro come September 7. That maybe doesn’t quite make it a 100 percent probability — nothing’s official until Apple makes it official. But things are definitely leaning that direction now.
Before we get into what we’re expecting, let’s discuss that name for a second. While Apple hasn’t been totally averse to appending numerals to its product in the past — I’m looking at you iPad 2 and iPad 3 — it hasn’t done much of that lately. With the exception of the iPhone line (which has only occasionally deviated from the numbers naming game), almost all Apple products keep their names, which means we have to start using year references.
A perfect recent example is the newest Apple TV 4K, which the company released in 2021 without changing the product name, so we’re stuck with “Apple TV 4K (2021).” See where I’m going?
Apple’s next earbuds will probably keep the AirPods Pro name. But if they do, you can bet it’ll be adding (2022) to clarify which ones we’re talking about. Also don’t be surprised if you see AirPods Pro 2 somewhere, at least in casual use.
So what might the next AirPods Pro have in store for us? As with any Apple update, it will be a mixture of new features and improvements to existing functions, with the emphasis on the improvements.
