- Airpods Max 2 is not expected until at least 2027
- AirPods Pro 3 predicted again by the end of 2025
- According to reports, Airpods Max does not sell enough to justify investment
If you wait for an Airpods Max 2 ad in the Big Apple event on September 9, 2025, prepare to disappoint: the next generation of Apple Oinjes is not expected to reach up to at least 2027.
That is an eternity in technological terms: the Original Max Airpods was launched in 2020. But it seems that Apple is trapped between a rock and a difficult place.
According to Bloomberg, the problem is simple: Airpods Max is “too popular for Apple to stop selling them, and not popular enough for the company to invest a lot of time and money in the creation of a new version”, after all, there is the Airpods Pro 3 to work in place.
What are the AirPods Max 2 and AirPods Pro 3 plans of Apple?
As always with Apple products not announced, we are dealing with leaks, rumors and predictions here. But it seems that Airpods Pro 3 will arrive soon and Airpods Max 2 will arrive later than expected.
Bloomberg says that the Airpods Pro 3 will be launched before the end of 2025, hopefully we listen to them at the iPhone 17 event, with a heart rate monitoring similar to Powerbeats Pro 2.
As for the current Airpods Max, its most recent update was a wet squi: they obtained USB-C to comply with EU legislation, and that was where new hardware features arrived, although this allowed audio support with lossless cable, and we believe it works quite well.
The expected update of the H2 chip, which would have put them along with Airpods Pro 2, did not appear. Airpods Max, unlike many premium headphones, still do not perform wireless audio without losses, and having an older chip means that they lack many of the characteristics of Airpods Pro 2.
After five years of daily clothes, my OG Airpods Max are main candidates for replacement: the head band is getting comfortable, the tight adjustment, I have a huge head, it is a bit annoying now, having to find a cable or a lightning adapter when everything else in my life is USB-C is a pain.
But I am not interested in paying a premium price for technology that now has half a decade, especially when the best headphones of other companies are significantly improving with each new launch. I wonder how many other Airpods Max owners can change to rival brands before the second generation arrives …
