Maybe these new AirPods Pro will last a full year before being replaced. Or even three months would be nice.
There’s one thing about the new Apple AirPods Pro that no review can answer. Not our AirPods 2 review. Not anyone else’s. And, to me, it’s that one unanswered question that matters more than any improved spec.
At the end of the day, these are AirPods Pro. They’re going to be really good, and they’re going to be better than the previous version. Better noise-cancellation is great. Better battery life is never a bad thing. Better Find My support is important. Better things are better across the board.
But here’s the thing: I was late to the AirPods Pro game. I didn’t buy my first pair until Black Friday 2021. That’s at the end of November, for those who somehow manage to avoid such madness.
A little more than three months later, I found myself in the Carnegie Library Apple Store in Washington, D.C., getting my AirPods Pro replaced. (That’s a really cool Apple Store, by the way, with plenty of art to check out while you wait.) As luck would have it — insofar as you can call it luck — my AirPods Pro recently had begun having some sort of feedback issue, not unlike what you experience when a microphone is too close to a speaker.
