AirPods Pro 3 Not Launching Until Next Year, Claims Analyst

Apple whitethorn motorboat the AirPods Pro 3 successful 2026, according to expert Jeff Pu of GF Securities Hong Kong, contradicting earlier predictions of a overmuch sooner release.


Pu's Apple merchandise timeline (via @jukanlosreve) comes arsenic a spot of a surprise. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said successful February that caller AirPods with bosom complaint monitoring were "months away," suggesting a precocious 2025 motorboat astatine the earliest. Code references to AirPods Pro 3 were besides precocious unearthed successful the iOS 26 beta by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser.

That said, successful a caller Ming-Chi Kuo report, the expert said AirPods may not spot important updates until 2026, erstwhile helium expects IR camera-equipped AirPods to participate wide production. However, it was not wide if Kuo was penning astir the modular non-Pro AirPods, and the expert did not respond to requests for clarification.

Historically, Apple has launched important AirPods updates alongside caller iPhones, truthful a September lawsuit – apt shared with the upcoming ‌iPhone‌ 17 bid – was thought to beryllium the astir plausible window. A 2026 merchandise would people 4 years since the AirPods Pro 2 debuted successful September 2022.

Pu's merchandise roadmap shows Apple focusing connected different hardware successful 2025. The expert expects the Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 to get this year, which is nary existent surprise. More notably, helium predicts that Apple volition besides merchandise its rumored HomePad tablet this twelvemonth – though helium offered nary much circumstantial date.

For 2026, Pu forecasts the AirPods Pro 3 launching alongside the Apple Watch Series 12 and a refreshed Vision Pro. Looking further into 2027 and beyond, helium anticipates humor monitoring capabilities coming to Apple Watch and the debut of "Vision Air" and astute glasses.

The AirPods Pro 3 are expected to diagnostic importantly improved progressive sound cancellation and bosom complaint monitoring, akin to the precocious announced Powerbeats Pro 2. Apple past updated the AirPods Pro enactment with a USB-C charging lawsuit successful September 2023.
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