Air pods pro 2, what do I need to know?

They are focused on protecting your ears.

I've added the battery widget to the home screen of my iPhone. It shows the battery levels of my devices such as my Airpods, the Airpods case, my Apple Watch, and Beats headphones. You might find this widget handy to see the battery status of your Airpods even when you aren't using them or to see when they have been fully charged.

I tried them briefly. Best sounding headphones I ever tried, on my headphones quest. I'm currently using OpenRun Pro by Shokz. They're OK, but they suck for music. I didn't stick with the Airpods because I wanted to potentially use them for working out, and even walking somewhat vigorously, one of them almost popped out of my ear.

I tried looking around for solutions, and there are some, notably either tip thingies you can attach, or sort of strap thingies. But they seemed kind of tricky to get on and off, and of course, that's something else to lose fairly easily.

Has anybody found a solution to keep them from falling out of your ears and getting lost? I wouldn't want to be out somewhere, or even doing something in the house ,and have one fall out and get lost. That's particularly true since I'd have to spend another $250 or whatever they are to replace both of them.

They'd make me paranoid if I didn't come up with something. They're a great idea, but for me, the fact they could get pretty easily lost and all was a real deterrent to keeping them. But they had such a great sound that I'd seriously reconsider, if I could find something to minimize the possibility of just losing one somewhere.

I believe you get diffirent shaped tips in the box to allow the headphones to fit your ears.

Using the standard tips that is. I feel like walking and moving around just pushed them out. I dunno, maybe that means they didn't really fit. But they felt fairly secure normally. It's not like this is the first time I've heard of it either, e.g. in the review of Airpods vs. Shokz somebody did on her they mentioned an Airpod almost flying out of their ear while they were working out.

Plus, even assuming I Needed different tips, the stems stick down, so you could still bump them or something and knock them out of your ear. $250 is a good chunk of money, I want more security than "oh these things are properly wedged in your earholes", you know?

I have a pair of Beats Fit Pro, which have the internals of the first generation AirPods Pro, but have the wing tips that attach well to the cartilage of my ears so they never fall out. I bought them precisely for this reason, as I feared accidentally dropping one and losing it.

The charging case is always connected to my Mac as I only listen to music while doing something else at the computer, and I always leave the earbuds in their case when not using them with no apparent effect on battery health. Charging can take up to one and a half hours to max out from less than 10% energy left, and a full charge lasts for over 6 hours.

I don't particularly like Spacial Audio, and actually hate head tracking, so I have both disabled everywhere.

Transparency mode is acceptable but not great, as the outside world is a lot quieter than when I'm not using anything. This is good for listening to music, but if I raise the volume over 40% I stop listening to my surroundings, which is supposed to be the point of having a transparency mode to begin with. Active noise cancellation works better for lower pitched than for higher pitched sounds, but in general does a good job cancelling sound especially when listening to music. Adaptive audio is not supported by these earbuds since as I mentioned earlier they have the internals of the first generation AirPods Pro which didn't have that feature.

Sound quality is very good, providing the best audio experience I've ever had with any earbuds or headphones, though beware that although my hearing is good enough to pick up compression artifacts in compressed audio, I'm not an audiophile.

Latency is noticeable but not too bad, as I can tolerate it just fine while coding.

The big thing I recommend is getting a $15 or so kit that will help hold the Air Pods in your ears. I don't know how this happened but the Air Pods 2 won't stay in most ears without help, they're way worse than the older models for this.

But ended up reverting to Apple's tips because they'd interfere with charging the pods; I'd often open the case to find they'd not actually charged up at all. It got old pretty quick, so I reluctantly went back. They had a lovely open sound profile too, as well as not falling out due to being slick with moisture, but the charging thing really made them unviable for me, sadly.

What kit would you recommend, and how is it for charging? We did look at some stuff, but it seemed like you'd have to take stuff off and put it back on again when you wanted to use them. That just sounds like more parts I can lose or forget. So ideally I'd like something that you could just put on and leave on.

I unfortunately haven't been able to find a kit that keeps the Air Pods 2 in place and doesn't have to be taken off to charge. That's actually led me to stop using my Air Pod Pros entirely. I might check out the tips recommended in other posts to see if that helps.