If Apple’s most popular product is iPhone, its most prestigious product is its airpods wireless earbuds. About 10 years ago, immediately recognizable white buds have become omnipresent. Apple’s premium version is AirPods Pro 2.
These earbuds received a mild update in 2023, which includes Magsef charging and USB-C compatibility, but we have not seen a real upgrade since the release of the second generation in 2022.
It involves many people, incorporating themselves, to believe that a true third-jewelery model is coming soon. Here is everything that you have to know what Apple has stored for its next flagship wireless earbuds.
When will AirPods Pro 3 be revealed?
Some have suggested that Apple will announce the AirPods Pro 3 in early June 2025, which matches the company’s annual WWDC software event. If the Apple Airpods updates Pro with a group of new features, which is designed to be leveraged by third -party app developers, then it is understood that time.
However, Apple has historically controlled the functionality of AirPods Pro tightly and has only been managed through settings within its own software. Assuming that this trend continues, the next iPhone seems more likely to announce 2025.
AirPods Pro 3: What Rumors Say
Speculation between apple watchers including Mark Gurman and Ming Chi-Cooo is centered around a major AirPods Pro 3 region: sensors.
The prevailing perception is that Apple will include a new sensor suit capable of tracking at least temperature and heart rate. Apple filed a patent for this in 2017 and given that Apple -owned beats Powerbeats Pro 2 have heart rate sensors, it looks like a quite safe condition.
However, one of the wilder rumors shows that AirPods Pro 3 can also find some kind of embedded camera. Not so much to take photos and videos (although it would be complicated) but instead, as an alternative to keep an eye on real -time hand, as an alternative to using the onboard control of earbuds, or as an alternative to use Siri to control tasks on iPhone. This rumor is less likely-at least for the third-gene AirPods Pro. Perhaps it can pass on the fourth generation.
Nevertheless, other people point to an Apple patent, which expands a design for a charging case with an underlying touchscreen, which is a sign of indication of coming on AirPods Pro 3. Can Apple do this? Definitely. JBL has added this feature to several wireless earbuds models, including Tour Pro3. What will Apple do? It is less certain.
Airpods 4 and AirPods 4 with ANC claimed one of the smallest charging cases on the market. Small cases and touchscreen are somewhat mutually exclusive, so if the Apple AirPods Pro 3 also wants to shrink, then a screen is very low.
It is also not clear that people actually find JBL touchscreen useful, despite many tasks it lets you access.
The biggest reason for touchscreen charging case is to reduce the need to use your phone. Since there are only a few landscapes where people use earbuds without their phone, Apple may not see the benefit.
Talking about the charging case, it has been almost given that Airpods Pro 3 Arpods 4 and Arpods 4 will dig the physical Bluetooth pairing button in favor of the capacitive touch version used with ARPods 4.
Bloomberg believes that airpods will be available on Pro 3 via the translate app update in Voice Translation iOS 19. Not only does it feel on the brand for Apple as a company, there are many products that already offer something similar, including Apple’s biggest contestants, Samsung, which added it to the Galaxy Buds Pro 3.
In the end, most observers agree that we can expect better sound quality and already spectacular active noise of Apple and improve transparency technologies.
What we are expecting on AirPods Pro 3
The additional sensor at AirPods Pro 3 makes sense. Apple is already on health and fitness through Apple Watch, and will make that tracking more accurate and useful by having additional health data through AirPods.
However, I am looking for improvement in the original wireless music mission of AirPods Pro.
My wishlist starts with a long battery life. I say this every time because the current six hours are enough, we know from other companies that it can be very long. And who ever said, “No thanks” when the long battery offered life?
I would like to see Apple adopting the right Bluetooth multipoint. At the moment, you can switch quite easily among your Apple products for iCloud, but if you are to use Windows laptop for work, there is no way to keep AirPods Pro together with your iPhone and your computer. It is a high time that Apple joined the Multipoint World – at this point, the AirPods family is one of the only product lines that do not support this easy technique.
In a similar vein, I want Apple to provide AirPods Pro 3 for Bluetooth auracast broadcasting. It can choose to do iOS and/or within itself. Either will be fine with me.
Apple irritated us when he said that AirPods Pro 2 wireless with USB-C could perform defective audio. It was not a lie, but it came up with a demon cavet: it only works with Apple’s Vision Pro R Hedset. I want Apple to proceed with this feature so that (at least) it works with iphones. If there is a sound quality advantage for defective audio (who will agree with many music fans), it should not be reserved for the vision Pro.
Talking about USB-C, Apple can give us the option to plug the Airpods Pro 3 charging case into a 3.5mm analog audio source, and can use the charging case as a wireless transmitter. It will not be an innovation. Bovers and Wilkins, LG, JBL, and Jabra have provided this facility to all on current and previous wireless earbuds. Airpods Pro 2 Charging Case already has an ultra-windband (UWB) wireless transmitter that is for Find My feature, and UWB will make an excellent option for wireless transmission for airpods.
When will AirPods Pro 3 be available, and how much will they cost?
Assuming that Apple actually announces AirPods Pro 3 in a decline with the next iPhone, we can expect they will be available for proper within a few hours of the announcement, and they will probably start shipping 10–14 days after that.
Apple has announced the last three Airpods Pro versions at a regular price of $ 249. Certainly, there is no guarantee in life-especially in the current economic environment of tight-for-tat tariffs-but it is a reasonable estimate that the company will maintain this price for Airpods Pro3.
