- New AirPod features claimed for the unveiling of WWDC 2025
- Airpods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 can obtain camera control, a new micro mode and new head gestures
- Sleep detection may also require Apple Watch
We are a few days before the annual event of Apple developers, WWDC 2025, which means that the revelation of the next macos, iOS and iPados is imminent. And if the reports are correct, this means more interesting improvements for AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with ANC and AirPods Pro 2.
The news comes from 9TO5MAC, which shared five features that expect to be revealed when opening Monday June 9 – although we cannot use them before beta versions were published as they approach their usual date of September.
What new features arrive at AirPods in iOS 26?
IOS 26 – Numbering would have moved around years instead of versions so that all Apple operating systems are synchronized – will introduce five features: new head gestures, automatic sleep break, camera control, audio mixture and larger class management.
Head gestures were added to AirPods Pro 2 and Airpods 4 last year: you can refuse calls (and some other notifications) with a head jerk or ahead to accept them. Now Apple apparently works on additional gestures, especially one that will extend the volume of conversational consciousness, a mode that reduces audio when you speak.
Apple has also worked on detection when you fall asleep while listening to your airpods. However, it is not clear if it will be an AirPods / iPhone functionality alone, or if it will require the sleep detection function of the best Apple watches.
The third feature is one of these “I cannot believe that they did not do it years ago”: control your camera shutter with the rod of your AirPods, just as you can do with volume control on earpods.
Audio Mix, which has been introduced with the iPhone 16, is also improved: 9TO5MAC understands that there will be a new microphone mode “Studio quality” which will make airpods more attractive to the “Little Lavalier Microphones of the Grophone De La Mailovers”.
Finally and above all, there will be a better management of the class which will facilitate the connection of several AirPods users to the same iPad by removing part of the friction in the current pairing system.
It is likely that we intend to speak at least about some of these features on Monday, June 9, although this does not necessarily mean that they will certainly be part of iOS 26: after the smarter-siri debacle, we take nothing for granted until it is really there in our iphones.
