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Did you lose your AirPods?

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by minimaxir »

ww520 wrote: post #38

Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.

That was a known issue with the 1st-gen AirPods Pro (Apple had a 3 year replacement program for them) but I've heard fewer issues with the 2nd-gen.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by RockRobotRock »

exikyut wrote: post #30
RockRobotRock wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was surprised they didn't have any idea how to use Find My. That and their iCloud account was all kinds of messed up. I think we take for granted how easily these things come to us as tech people.

How was their iCloud account all kinds of messed up?

Didn’t remember their password, may have been logged in with their mom’s account, etc.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by adamomada »

38 wrote: post #20

and this folks is why I will never buy airpods. for $249, I can get 8 pairs of these: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/in-ear/p/mdrex... have purchased 4 already, happy with my decision

And this is why I will never buy a pomegranate. I can get eight oranges instead

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

ww520 wrote: post #38

Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.

One of my AirPods is weirdly quiet. I know it still has the potential to be loud, as I’ve gotten it to be at the same level of noise as the other, but it’s hardly consistent. I’ve tried cleaning it and it didn’t seem to help, but I may just try again. Definitely a shame, but I got them for free so I won’t complain too much though. (If they were fully repairable this wouldn’t be a problem though.)

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by radicality »

So you scripted sending the message to 84 different numbers, was that from your own personal iMessage account?

I would be terrified of doing something like that, I imagine the account could get flagged for spam, and hearing the various tech horror stories, I wouldn’t be surprised if it could end up suspending your iCloud account with everything on it, blacklisting hardware devices linked to it, and who knows what else.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by deaddodo »

firesteelrain wrote: post #7
uberman wrote: post #3

My kids loose theirs all the time and I say use find my but apparently that does not work if they are in the case at least according to my kids.

They aren’t completely wrong. You just can’t use the speaker feature to play a sound. But Find My will still work

Newer models, the case will make a ping sound when you tap on it.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

adamomada wrote: post #43
38 wrote: post #20

and this folks is why I will never buy airpods. for $249, I can get 8 pairs of these: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/in-ear/p/mdrex... have purchased 4 already, happy with my decision

And this is why I will never buy a pomegranate. I can get eight oranges instead

Lucky for me I love oranges.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by nimih »

ww520 wrote: post #38

Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.

I own a pair of AirPods and AirPod Pros; I bought the former in 2019, and was gifted the latter in 2020. The microphone on the AirPods died after about 18 months of use, but they otherwise still work perfectly (perhaps with slightly degraded, but still quite serviceable, battery life), and have survived a wide range of abuse (multiple trips through the washing machine, repeated drops onto pavement, in some cases from a bicycle moving at decent speed, etc).

The Pros, on the other hand, in spite of me generally being quite careful with them (in contrast to the basic AirPods) had their noise canceling crap out at about the 2 year mark, and currently are slightly louder in one ear than the other (but the microphone still works, so they remain in service).

So, overall, I think I’ve had a similar experience to you with the Pros, but have been quite impressed with the non-Pro model.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

ww520 wrote: post #38

Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.

Fwiw, the batteries will degrade in that period. I’m not saying that’s okay, but you should prepare for airpods to have a 3 year lifecycle regardless.
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