The Apple AirPods 3 are a fine pair of true wireless earbuds, but we found four ways to make the AirPods 4 even better.
The Apple AirPods 3 are a fine pair of true wireless earbuds, and a big improvement on the AirPods 2 that we saw in 2019. However, they’re not perfect and could use a little refining. While we’ve yet to hear much about the AirPods 4 that are likely two years away at least considering that all the AirPods releases have been spaced that far apart, we can start talking about what we’d potentially like to see from them in terms of design and features. That’s not to cast aspersions on the current model — the AirPods 3 have some of the best functionality and feature set for iOS users — but to say that they’re the best true wireless earbuds would be disingenuous. Apple, if you’re listening, here are the four major improvements you need to make to the AirPods 4 to elevate them to the top of the pack. At the top of the list is the uncomfortable hard plastic shell design that truly needs to go ASAP. Look, it worked for the first few iterations of the AirPods. It gave them a distinct style and a space-age aesthetic. But for audiophiles, these were always a huge headache. Not only don’t they contour to every outer ear, but the lack of a proper seal means that there’s substantial sound leakage and a lack of bass response.
