5 hidden features of the AirPods that many do not know

Earphone AirPods From Apple, it may be small in size, but it includes many great functions and features that you may not be aware of. Therefore, in this article, we will learn about 5 hidden features in the AirPods that many users do not know about, which will improve your experience and allow you to get the most out of it. Of which.

Share the audio with another person

Do you want to listen to a song or watch a video with a family member or a friend of yours, previously all you had to do was share the earphone itself, but now the situation has changed and you can both listen to anything without the need to share the earphone thanks to the audio sharing feature in AirPods In order to use the audio sharing feature, you must have an iPhone or iPad running the latest version of the operating system, and both of you will need compatible wireless headphones such as AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, or Beats headphone, and then follow these steps :

1. First, connect your AirPods to your iPhone
2. Tap the Quick Airplay button in Control Center or AirPlay
3. Then tap Share Audio
4. Make sure your friend's headset is near the iPhone
5. When your friend's headset appears on the iPhone screen, tap Share Audio

Volume control

Our tastes are different, as well as the way to listen through the earphone, some prefer to play the sound at a high level and others want a medium or low volume. This feature is present in the AirPods, where you can control the volume of your headset, as well as your friend can control his wireless headset, too, separately through Next steps:

1. Open Control Center
2. Long press the volume slider to control either set of earbuds
3. Or drag the volume slider down to control the volume of both earbuds

Put your ears somewhere else

With the direct listening feature, you can use the iPhone or even the iPad to be a microphone that transmits the sound to you with ease from anywhere the iPhone is located to your AirPods, where Apple provided that feature so that you can listen to the conversations in a place where it is. Noise, however, you can rely on the direct listening feature to hear anything from a place far from you, where you can leave the iPhone on the table while others talk and through that feature you can go to another room or to the bathroom and you will be able to hear everything they say (You should always use this feature for good, not for evil) Here's how to do it:

1. Go to Settings, then Control Center
2. Scroll down and click Add next to the Hearing button
3. Then tap on Settings to save the changes
4. This is how you added live listening to the control center
5. Then pair your AirPods
6. Then press the Hearing button
7. Then click on the Live Listen feature

Customize AirPods controls

On newer versions of AirPods, you can press the stem of the earphone to do a variety of commands, such as play, pause, answer calls, or even turn off noise cancellation. On older AirPods, you can do this by tapping on the speaker itself. However, Apple allows you to change those actions by customizing the controls on the speaker. To modify the controls on the AirPods, first make sure the earphones are connected to your iPhone and then follow Next steps:

1. Open Settings
2. Then tap on your AirPods
3. You can choose a few different actions such as controlling noise, activating Siri, playing and pausing, or playing the next or previous track.
4. Thus, you can use one of the headphones, for example, to control the volume, and the other to activate Siri or answer calls.

Know who is calling and read messages

You can use the AirPods to tell you the name of the caller or read incoming messages to you if you are exercising or busy and cannot look at your iPhone as follows:

1. To tell you who's calling you, go to Settings, then Phone
2. Then click Announce Calls
3. And select Headphone Only
4. Then go to Settings, then Notifications
5. And tap Announce Notifications to turn it on

Thus, when you turn on the notification feature, Siri will speak incoming notifications, such as messages and the caller, for you to hear through your AirPods.

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