Last week, Apple introduced that lossless audio and extremely low latency could be coming to the AirPods Max with USB-C. It was a pleasing shock for homeowners of Apple’s over-ear headphones, which have fallen behind the AirPods Pro in recent times in the case of providing new options. The firm briefly hit a snag in releasing the firmware replace crucial for the AirPods Max to unlock these newfound capabilities, however resolved the difficulty on Wednesday afternoon.
Firmware model 7E99 was presupposed to arrive early this week alongside iOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4. But late within the day Tuesday, Apple added an uncommon “coming quickly” asterisk subsequent to the AirPods Max on a assist website that lists every system’s newest firmware. Both MacRumors and 9to5Mac reported on the delay, although Apple by no means gave a proof. A more recent AirPods Max software program replace, 7E101, was rolled out on Wednesday.
The firm additionally launched a brand new USB-C to three.5mm cable for the AirPods Max final week, and it’s value noting you should utilize that no matter what firmware you’re on; it really works proper out of the field for connecting the headphones to gadgets with a conventional headphone jack — and it’s a reasonably good cable as these items go. (You’d hope so for $39.)
Apple actually must make the method of updating AirPods extra simple. For years, it has simply form of occurred within the background at a random second when your iPhone and AirPods are close to one another with the headphones charging. There’s no method of manually triggering an replace, which runs counter to the way in which each different earbud maker does it. Can we get a easy “replace now” button proper in AirPods settings in iOS 19, please?
Update, April 2nd 6:30PM ET: The article has been up to date to replicate that the newest AirPods Max firmware is now obtainable.
