The most famous wireless headphones of the moment are still in fashion and above all, they continue to receive updates that make us all take advantage of them through their different tricks. We are referring to the Apple AirPods , the most demanded wireless headphones and at the same time, with some of the functions most demanded by users of other brands; A whole mass phenomenon that, of course, we have to know how to use them correctly.
For this, there is nothing better than knowing its tricks and ins and outs in order to be able to get the most out of them with new tricks, beyond the best known such as the one that allows us to share audio in two headphones. Of course, be very careful, because not all the tricks are available for most AirPods models.
Never miss a notification
If there is something that will allow us and facilitate our AirPods, it is the ability to forget about our device and be able to listen to everything we receive on our mobile phone.
- Within the settings of your iPhone you must go to ‘Notifications’ > ‘Announce notifications’ .
- Tap on ‘Headphones’.
- Then you can choose all the apps that you want to be notified by notifications.
To choose the different apps, you simply have to click on each app and indicate that you want notifications to be announced based on what you request. One of the most interesting things that you can do with these announcements is the possibility of answering them directly from the headphones, simply answer Siri with what you want to do and Siri will do it for you.
Know the different listening modes
As you already know, with AirPods -especially with the Pro-, we have a large number of possibilities when it comes to being able to listen to music in different ways. One of them is thanks to the Noise Cancellation that it offers, but there is much more. Among them is the Spatial Audio , with which we can feel that we are inside a concert, listening to our surroundings how the singer or the music penetrates us from all sides. A wonderful experience that we can activate like this:
- Open Control Center on iPhone .
- Press and hold the volume rocker to activate spatial audio while playing multi-channel content, or select the ‘Spatialize Stereo’ option while playing stereo content.
When you turn on spatial audio with head tracking, the audio adjusts based on head movement, meaning if your head goes to the right, the sound will move in that direction . If you want to turn this feature on, tap ‘Head Tracking’. To activate only spatial audio, click on ‘Fixed’.
In order to correctly activate this listening mode, you must have any AirPods model except for 1st or 2nd generation AirPods, with which we will not be able to do this. Beyond the AirPods named, we can also use this spatial audio with the Beats Fit Pro.
Feel the protagonist of the songs
With the iPhone update to iOS 16.2, a new and interesting innovation has come to those that iOS already had in its catalog, related to listening to music, although more than listening, with the ability to feel said music. This is none other than Apple Music’s new Karaoke mode .
By activating this mode, we can easily listen to the instrumental part of the music without hearing the lyrics of the song, being able to sing over everything we want as if we were the protagonists of the song, so it will be an ideal way to enjoy music with our AirPods.
- Put a song in Apple Music from your iPhone, iPad or the new version of Apple TV 4K.
- Click on the icon that allows access to the lyrics , and once we have clicked on the icon, the option with which we can activate this karaoke mode will appear on our screen.
- A volume control different from the one we usually see will be displayed and with it we can lower and raise the sound level of the lyrics and you can sing over it.
This, with our AirPods connected, will give us a wonderful experience with which we can sing with complete peace of mind while we are the singer.
