Apple’s line of AirPods will achieve a customized equalizer in software program as a part of the corporate’s 2026 fall OS updates, giving customers extra management over how they sound.
A customized EQ will enable AirPods homeowners to customise their sound signature, akin to growing the bass or boosting the treble. Apple introduced the brand new function as a part of its WWDC 2026 opening keynote.
That is the primary time that Apple has allowed AirPods homeowners to actively change the best way they sound. It additionally has the potential to open the AirPods lineup to extra prospects, akin to those that discovered them to be too bass-heavy.
Whereas a customized EQ provides AirPods homeowners a direct technique to customise their audio, present options can modify it robotically. Adaptive Audio and Conversational Consciousness, for instance, modify the AirPods listening expertise in actual time, and robotically.
Sadly, AirPods homeowners must wait to set their very own customized EQ. As a result of the function is a part of Apple’s 2026 software program updates, it will not be accessible till this fall alongside the discharge of iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and the remainder of this 12 months’s updates.