AirPods Pro 2 could miss out on this major upgrade

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Last year, reports emerged that the upcoming AirPods Pro 2 would justify their long design gestation with some brand new fitness tracking features, reflecting the compact earbuds’ popularity amongst runners and gym goers around the world.

Unfortunately, in his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is the bearer of bad news: while Apple has been exploring the technology, it’s reportedly not coming with the next generation of AirPods Pro.

“Over the past few months, there have been rumors about this year’s model gaining the ability to determine a wearer’s heart rate or body temperature,” Gurman writes. “I’m told that neither feature is likely to arrive in the 2022 upgrade, though both enhancements have been explored inside the company and could arrive one day.”

And according to the most recent rumor, the buds will introduce another feature that audiophiles will love: “self-adaptive” noise cancellation. This will apparently sit alongside self-adaptive equalization, spatial audio and audio sharing as you would expect.

Still, if you’re rocking a first-gen set then you may still see the upgrade as essential anyway, as Gurman himself points out. “If you purchased the original AirPods Pro when they launched at the end of 2019, your batteries may be nearing end of life—or at least their reliability is slipping,” he wrote.

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Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. He also handles all the Wordle coverage on Tom's Guide and has been playing the addictive NYT game for the last several years in an effort to keep his streak forever intact.

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