- The audio recording of study quality and the remote of the camera will be in Public Beta
- The public beta will be available in July 2025
- Apple does not recommend installing betas on the devices on which
Since the first days of iOS, there has been a frustrating delay between the great revelation on WWDC and the final version that arrives in September (generally): we can see fun new things and then we have to wait for what you feel forever to obtain them, even in updates promised to Airpods.
Good news! Apple has promised to allow him to play with the new Airpods functions in July 2025 for the first time. However, there is a trap: it will be part of the IOS/iPados/Macos Public Beta version, so you should not wait for the fully polished final versions, and it is not a good idea to install the beta software on its devices in which it trusts every day. Then while you can Get early access, it probably shouldn’t.
The new features are the audio recording of study quality and the remote camera. Apple says that the first is for singers, podcasters, interviewers and other content creators and will offer a much better sound quality in recordings, on telephone calls, in Facetime and in third -party applications that use Apple’s Callkit framework. It should also improve dictation accuracy, especially in loudest environments.
The remote control of the camera is exactly what it seems: it allows you to activate the camera’s application shutter (or the application of compatible third parties) by pressing the Airpods rod to take a photo or start a video recording.
Public betas are better
The new features are for Airpods 4, AirPods 4 with Anc and Airpods Pro 2, and require an iPhone capable of running iOS 26, which is most recent, since iOS 26 will be available for phones that return to the iPhone 11.
If you really want to experiment with the new features, you can get the Beta developer of iOS 26 at this time in developer.apple.com; All you need is a developer account. The public beta will continue in July, which does not require a developer account.
But both options are not a good idea for most of us, I think. From the comments that I am seeing online of the first users, iOS 26 is still quite far from being finished, and Apple urges people very specifically not to install betas developers on their main devices.
The public beta is a safer option, but there are still the usual warnings that the Beta software is not ending, so there may be incompatibilities of applications, strange errors, visualization problems and other frustrations.
In a worse scenario, they can even bark their devices, making them completely useless, but these are risks that will accept to take the agreement to test the beta software. It is probably not worth obtaining clearer calls a few months before.
