Apple Introduces AirPods 5

With industry-leading ANC successful an open-ear design, improved sound quality, hands-free entree to Siri AI, and Live Translation, AirPods 5 present the champion audio acquisition Apple has ever offered successful this style of AirPods, astatine an unthinkable price

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple coming announced AirPods 5, delivering the industry’s champion Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) successful an open-ear creation and moreover amended sound quality, astatine an outstanding value.1 AirPods 5 characteristic an all-new multiport acoustic architecture and next-generation Adaptive EQ for moreover much immersive sound. Their breakthrough open-ear ANC removes up to 50 percent much outer sound compared to AirPods 4 pinch Active Noise Cancellation, alongside a much earthy Transparency mode. Combined pinch Siri AI and iPhone, AirPods alteration users to tie connected their individual discourse and get answers pinch wide world knowledge, wholly hands-free.2 Users tin besides respond to Siri utilizing caput gestures, aliases usage Live Translation to thief link crossed languages.

AirPods 5 connection the astir affordable measurement to acquisition immoderate of the astir powerful AirPods features — on pinch greater durability pinch improved dust, sweat, and h2o guidance — astatine $129. For users who want moreover more, AirPods 5 pinch Wireless Charging Case adhd longer artillery life and on-stem measurement power for $149.3 Customers tin pre-order starting today, pinch readiness successful stores opening Friday, September 18.

“We’re thrilled that pinch AirPods 5, we’re capable to bring Active Noise Cancellation — 1 of our astir beloved features — to our astir affordable AirPods,” said Dave Pakula, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering. “Both AirPods 5 models present a world-class listening acquisition and alteration features for illustration Live Translation for moreover much people. Paired pinch Siri AI, AirPods are a crippled changer for unlocking powerful hands-free capabilities.”

Best-in-Class Active Noise Cancellation

Customers emotion to usage ANC to quiet the world astir them truthful they tin remainder connected a noisy flight, get mislaid successful their favourite music, aliases enactment focused connected work. AirPods 5 region up to 50 percent much sound compared to AirPods 4 pinch ANC acknowledgment to a caller multiport acoustic architecture and improved computational audio algorithms. Along pinch the benefits of ANC, AirPods 5 characteristic an improved Transparency mode that much people represents voices and adjacent sounds, helping users enactment connected to their surroundings. Providing the champion of some worlds, Adaptive Audio dynamically blends Transparency mode and ANC based connected the conditions of a user’s environment. And Conversation Awareness lowers the user’s media measurement erstwhile they commencement speaking, helping them much easy talk to personification nearby.

Re-Engineered Sound Quality

Inspired by AirPods Pro 3 and re-engineered for AirPods 5, a caller multiport acoustic architecture and next-generation Adaptive EQ present richer, much elaborate sound crossed an moreover wider scope of receptor geometries. This makes Personalized Spatial Audio much immersive and dynamic, truthful the personification feels for illustration they’re surrounded by immoderate they are listening to.4

Intelligent Features, Hands-Free

For users pinch an Apple Intelligence-supported iPhone, AirPods 5 let users to pat into adjuvant intelligent features hands-free and connected the go. Siri AI, which is rolling retired successful beta successful iOS 27, is simply a profoundly much tin and conversational assistant, offering individual discourse knowing crossed messages, emails, photos, and more, arsenic good arsenic app actions and wide world knowledge. For example, users tin inquire Siri to play the opus a friend recommended successful a connection aliases navigate to a meal preservation based connected the confirmation buried successful an email. Siri AI sounds much earthy than ever, pinch expressive voices that a personification tin customize truthful it’s conscionable correct for them.5 And Dictation now captures what users opportunity pinch greater precision.

In summation to these caller capabilities, Siri already useful seamlessly pinch apps from Apple’s immense ecosystem of developers, truthful users tin proceed to return action successful the apps they already use, for illustration texting a friend successful WhatsApp aliases playing a book connected Audible. With Siri Interactions connected AirPods, users tin discreetly respond to Siri AI by simply nodding their caput yes aliases shaking their caput no.

Live Translation, powered by Apple Intelligence, breaks down barriers by letting users pass crossed languages. After mounting up Live Translation successful the Translate app and downloading their desired languages, AirPods users tin entree the characteristic by simultaneously pressing some stems, by saying “Siri, commencement Live Translation,” aliases by utilizing the Action fastener connected iPhone — allowing them to perceive a speech successful their preferred language. Enabled by ANC and computational audio, this capacity is now disposable crossed the full AirPods lineup.

AirPods 5 pinch Wireless Charging Case

For users who want moreover more, AirPods 5 pinch Wireless Charging Case present awesome improvements to the AirPods experience. Force sensor pinch measurement swipe arrives connected AirPods 5, a first for the open-ear shape factor, adding the expertise to quickly set measurement by swiping up aliases down connected the stem.

Battery life is besides improved, pinch up to 5 hours of playback pinch ANC connected a azygous complaint — 1 hr longer than AirPods 4 pinch ANC, acknowledgment to a redesigned battery. This extends up to 22 hours pinch the charging lawsuit erstwhile listening pinch ANC. The wireless charging lawsuit supports Apple Watch chargers, Qi-compatible chargers, and USB-C.

AirPods 5 and the Environment

The caller AirPods 5 were built pinch the situation successful mind and thrust advancement toward Apple’s eager scheme to beryllium c neutral crossed its full footprint by 2030. They are made pinch 40 percent recycled worldly overall,6 including 70 percent recycled integrative successful the wireless charging lawsuit and 100 percent recycled cobalt successful the battery. AirPods 5 are manufactured pinch 35 percent renewable energy, for illustration upwind and solar, crossed the proviso chain, and meet Apple’s precocious standards for power ratio and safe chemistry. Like each Apple products, their insubstantial packaging is 100 percent fiber-based7 and tin beryllium easy recycled astatine home.

Pricing and Availability

1. Testing conducted by Apple successful July 2026 utilizing AirPods 5 paired pinch iPhone 17 pinch prerelease AirPods firmware and iOS 27. Noise simplification was tested successful accordance pinch IEC 60268-24. Comparison made against the bestselling wireless open-ear headphones commercially disposable astatine the clip of testing. Performance depends connected instrumentality settings, environment, and galore different factors.
2. Apple Intelligence is disposable pinch Siri settings and instrumentality connection group to Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, aliases Vietnamese. Some features whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful each regions aliases languages. Some devices whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful each regions. Siri AI is rolling retired successful beta successful iOS 27, macOS 27, and watchOS 27 and requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled instrumentality group to a supported language. Available successful English to start. Siri AI will not beryllium initially disposable successful the EU pinch iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Certain Apple Intelligence features that trust connected server-side models are taxable to regular usage limits, including but not constricted to Siri AI, intelligent photograph editing tools, Image Playground, and AFM 3 Cloud models successful Shortcuts. Daily limits whitethorn alteration by feature, petition complexity, strategy demand, strategy policies, and different factors. Expanded entree to specified features will beryllium disposable for a interest successful the future. Use of these features is taxable to Apple Intelligence position and conditions. Learn much astatine apple.com/apple-intelligence. Hands-free entree to Siri AI useful connected each AirPods. Siri AI is not disposable to users nether 13.
3. Battery life varies by use. See apple.com/batteries for details.
4. Personalized Spatial Audio useful pinch compatible contented successful supported apps. iPhone pinch TrueDepth camera required to create personalized profile, which will sync crossed compatible Apple devices. Personalized Spatial Audio is not disposable erstwhile utilizing different devices.
5. Apple’s astir powerful on-device exemplary and the features it enables, for illustration expressive voices and much precocious Dictation, are disposable connected iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPad models pinch M4 aliases later and astatine slightest 12GB of unified memory, and Mac models pinch M3 aliases later and astatine slightest 12GB of unified memory. The exemplary and expressive voices are besides disposable connected Apple Vision Pro (M5).
6. Product recycled aliases renewable contented is the wide of certified recycled worldly comparative to the wide general of the device, not including packaging aliases in-box accessories. Recycled and renewable integrative contented calculation includes wide equilibrium allocation.
7. Breakdown of U.S. unit packaging by weight. Adhesives, inks, and coatings are excluded from calculations of integrative contented and packaging weight.