With Apple recently launching new AirPods 4 and USB-C AirPods Max, we still hope for AirPods Max 2. Here is what we know about it.
Apple recently released two iterations of AirPods 4 and a tweaked version of AirPods Max with USB-C. Cupertino now focuses on launching AirPods Pro 3 in 2025, while rumors about the AirPods Max 2 release date leave us with little hope.
With the original headphones released at the end of 2020, an upgrade is long overdue, but when could this happen? Here’s everything we know about the future AirPods Max 2 and other AirPods models.AirPods Max 2: What does the rumor say?
For a while, Bloomberg reported that Apple was planning new colors for the first-gen AirPods Max. Here’s what Mark Gurman said in May 2021:
“Apple only recently caught up with demand for the product, and it is not currently working on a second generation of the AirPods Max, though it has discussed launching additional color variations in the future.“
After that, the journalist said in 2023 that Apple was indeed working on AirPods Max 2 for a late 2024 release, which eventually became a tweaked AirPods Max 1 with new colors and USB-C.
In one of his latest November 2024 Power On newsletters, Gurman wrote that Apple has “no concrete plans” to update the headphones “in a meaningful way.
