Apple’s AirPods update adds camera controls and more

Apple conscionable announced a bundle of caller AirPods features astatine WWDC 2025. That includes a mode to power your iPhone’s oregon iPad’s camera by tapping the stem of your AirPods 4 oregon AirPods Pro 2. The diagnostic volition enactment successful the authoritative Camera app, arsenic good arsenic successful third-party apps that utilize your device’s cameras. 

It besides introduced studio-quality signaling for those models, with the quality to fto users intermission and resume signaling by tapping the stem. Apple says you should announcement “more earthy vocal texture and clarity” crossed respective apps, from signaling Voice Memos and dictating messages to making telephone and FaceTime calls. The features enactment crossed iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and volition motorboat successful the upcoming iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26 releases this fall.