{"id":196251,"date":"2025-08-26T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=196251"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:49:04","slug":"airpods-pro-3-charging-case-may-lose-the-pairing-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/airpods-pro-3-charging-case-may-lose-the-pairing-button\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods Pro 3 charging case may lose the pairing button"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The upcoming AirPods Pro 3 earbuds are said to bring a redesigned charging case that should shrink in size and lose a dedicated Bluetooth pairing button.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asher Dipprey, who is a 3D artist at Front Page Tech, has shared on his X (Twitter) account<\/a> that the next AirPods Pro will bring design tweaks to make them more in line with the AirPods 4. He wrote that the charging case size will \u201cdecrease slightly.\u201d Also, Apple will allegedly remove a physiacl pairing button from the AirPods Pro 3\u2019s charging case. Instead, you can tap on the case itself to enter pairing mode.<\/p>\n

Leaker Majin Bu has corroborated<\/a> Dipprey\u2019s findings. Based on information obtained \u201cfrom a well-known accessory manufacturer,\u201d Bu added that the AirPods Pro 3\u2019s charging case will also retain support for the lanyard.<\/p>\n

AirPods Pro 3 charging may lose the pairing button<\/h2>\n

This sounds a lot like a design change Apple brought with the AirPods 4, released in September 2024. The AirPods 4 lack a traditional physical pairing button and instead embed a hidden touch-sensitive area on the front. To activate pairing mode on the AirPods 4, you just double-tap the front of the case.<\/p>\n

The fact that the AirPods Pro 3 will have a slightly smaller charging case indicates that the earbuds themselves will probably shrink in size. Earlier this year, a leaked image<\/a> (below) of what appeared to be the next AirPods Pro depicted changes like shorter stems and a bigger in-ear portion.<\/p>\n

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If true, this makes a lot of sense. Design differences between the regular AirPods and the AirPods Pro line never felt justified to me. Why engineer two sets of visually slightly different earbuds and charging cases when you could streamline these designs across AirPods products?<\/p>\n

Other rumored AirPods Pro 3 features<\/h2>\n

Provided this rumor is true, it sounds like the next AirPods Pro and the regular AirPods may look more uniform. Earlier this year, Mark Gurman reported on Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> that the AirPods Pro 3 will bring \u201ca new design\u201d along with upgraded noise cancellation that will be \u201cmuch better\u201d than the existing feature on the AirPods Pro 3 and a new Apple H3 headphone chip that will enable new computational audio capabilities.<\/p>\n

Gurman also said earlier that Apple is working on health tracking features for future AirPods models<\/a>, including in-ear heart rate monitoring and temperature sensing, and new sensors powering \u201ca slew of physiological measures.\u201d It\u2019s unclear if any of those health features will make the cut for the AirPods Pro 3.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been three years since Apple updated the AirPods Pro, but the wait should soon be over; Apple is expected to release the AirPods Pro 3 alongside the iPhone 17 lineup in September.<\/p>\n

Source link: https:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/2025\/08\/26\/apple-airpods-pro-3-charging-case-pairing-button-removal-rumor\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The upcoming AirPods Pro 3 earbuds are said to bring a redesigned charging case that should shrink in size and lose a dedicated Bluetooth pairing button. Asher Dipprey, who is a 3D artist at Front Page Tech, has shared on his X (Twitter) account that the next AirPods Pro will bring design tweaks to make…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":32045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allnews","category-appleindustrynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196252,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196251\/revisions\/196252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}