{"id":23729,"date":"2026-09-22T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/?p=23729"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:13:18","slug":"apple-just-gave-airpods-5-a-pretty-big-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/22\/apple-just-gave-airpods-5-a-pretty-big-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Just Gave AirPods 5 a Pretty Big Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Apple has quietly started pushing the word out on AirPods 5<\/a>, and there\u2019s actually quite a bit going on here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The headline upgrade is Active Noise Cancellation<\/strong>, which Apple says is now up to 1.5\u00d7 better than AirPods 4 with ANC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s also a redesigned acoustic architecture, promising greater depth, clarity and detail \u2014 basically Apple taking another swing at making the standard AirPods listening experience feel a little more premium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then things get properly futuristic<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AirPods 5<\/a> bring New Siri AI, giving you hands-free access to a more powerful and personalised AI assistant on your iPhone, alongside Live Translation for communicating across languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You also get the familiar intelligent listening features, including Transparency, Adaptive Audio and Conversation Awareness, while the Wireless Charging Case model<\/a> offers up to 5 hours of listening time with ANC enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, AirPods 5<\/a> aren\u2019t exactly reinventing<\/em> Apple\u2019s little white earbuds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re making them smarter, quieter<\/em><\/strong> and considerably more capable<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 and with Apple pushing Siri AI<\/a><\/strong> and Live Translation<\/strong> directly into something you wear in your ears all day, AirPods are starting to feel like they\u2019re becoming a much bigger<\/a> part of the iPhone experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apple has quietly started pushing the word out on AirPods 5, and there\u2019s actually quite a bit going on here. The headline upgrade is Active Noise Cancellation, which Apple says is now up to 1.5\u00d7 better than AirPods 4 with ANC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2786,174,2131],"tags":[3789,3544,3788,4,144,9,1040,3791,427,434,3790,512,827,3792,3787],"class_list":["post-23729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-music-app-store","tag-active-noise-cancellation","tag-airpods","tag-airpods-5","tag-apple","tag-audio","tag-design","tag-launch","tag-live-translation","tag-music","tag-new","tag-new-siri-ai","tag-release","tag-tech","tag-transparency","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23729"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23735,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729\/revisions\/23735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}