Apple is accordingly working on adding a temperature sensor to a future set of AirPods, Gurman says, although this may not be ready for the fourth generation.

Again, this is an area we already know is of interest to the company, whose most recent Apple Watches are designed to measure body temperature via the wrist for fertility tracking and overall well-being, but the ear canal is a better and more accurate source of such data. The idea is to help users screen for hearing issues.” In other words, as well as serving as an effective hearing aid, the next AirPods will be able to flag up potential hearing loss earlier so it can be treated more effectively.Ī separate health function Apple is looking to add to the AirPods is body temperature measurement. There will be, Gurman predicts, a “new hearing test feature that will play different tones and sounds to allow the AirPods to determine how well a person can hear. But at the time this was comparatively vague, mentioning the “ability to get hearing data of some sort.” The new report expands on this considerably.

More recently, Gurman himself said in an earlier edition of Power On that hearing health would be the next area for AirPods innovation. It’s been shown that current AirPods Pro models can double as cheap hearing aids, and the Conversation Boost feature was launched years ago. We already know, for example, that Apple is deeply interested in hearing health and how AirPods can help with this. The leaker-analyst Mark Gurman focused on the 4th-gen AirPods in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, and while some elements have been mentioned before by Gurman and others, the article is a useful summation with some new tidbits and further detail in certain areas. These include new health features (covering both hearing and body temperature monitoring) and a switch from Lightning to USB-C. Report sheds light on the future of AirPods with next-gen health, hearing featuresĪpple’s 4th-generation AirPods launch is approaching, and a major leak has revealed some new details about the next version of the company’s hugely popular wireless earbuds.

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