New AirPods Max Firmware Unavailable Due to iOS 18.4 Bug, Apple Says Update 'Coming Soon'

AirPods Max users person been near incapable to download Apple's caller firmware update bringing lossless and low-latency audio enactment to the headphones, owing to a bundle bug with iOS 18.4, MacRumors tin confirm.


Apple officially announced the caller diagnostic enactment for AirPods Max last week. Then connected Monday, Apple released an AirPods Max (USB-C) firmware update mentation 7E99 successful tandem with the rollout of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 bundle updates for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. However, since then, AirPods Max owners person not been capable to successfully update their devices owed to an unspecified struggle with the firmware and Apple's latest software.

The AirPods Max firmware was expected to alteration lossless and low-latency audio enactment arsenic portion of the broader bundle releases. "With this update, AirPods Max volition unlock 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio, preserving the integrity of archetypal recordings and allowing listeners to acquisition euphony the mode the creator created it successful the studio," said Apple successful a property release. "Lossless audio and ultra-low latency audio alteration euphony creators to afloat utilize AirPods Max passim their full nonrecreational workflow connected Logic Pro and different euphony instauration apps."

However, aft Apple indicated the firmware was disposable for download, idiosyncratic reports of problems dilatory began to trickle in. As it stands, there's nary motion that anyone has been capable to instal the firmware.

It's inactive not wide what Apple has done successful iOS/iPadOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4 to origin the issue, but each the indications are that Apple volition request to merchandise a constituent update to its platforms to close the bug. On its AirPods firmware enactment page, Apple presently lists the unobtainable firmware mentation 7E99 for AirPods Max arsenic "coming soon."
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