The AirPods Professional 2 might not be a lot of an improve

In case you are holding out for a new pair of AirPods Professional anticipated to reach this fall, you might need to decrease your expectations. Whereas we had been hoping for an array of recent options and a brand new design, it’s beginning to sound like there could also be valuable few causes to improve aside from battery life.

The newest report from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman tempers expectations for the brand new AirPods Professional, suggesting that Apple is so busy creating and producing the Mac chips that different areas of growth have taken a again seat, the AirPods Professional being considered one of them. Simply final week we learn that next-gen AirPods Professional won’t have the long-anticipated “stemless” design, and now they may not get the brand new well being sensors which were rumored as properly.

There had been reviews that the brand new AirPods Professional would get heart-rate monitoring and the capability to measure physique temperature, however Gurman’s sources have indicated to him that “neither characteristic is prone to arrive within the 2022 improve.” Gurman does nonetheless assume that these enhancements are in growth and “might arrive at some point.”

Among the many anticipated new options for the subsequent AirPods Professional are longer battery life and quicker charging attributable to a brand new USB-C case. They might additionally acquire lossless audio when listening to Apple Music tracks and different audio enhancements.

In addition to Apple’s give attention to Mac chip growth, Gurman blames “provide bottlenecks” which have additionally contributed to “slower progress for the iPhone, Apple Watch and even mobile modems.” For instance, whereas the Apple Watch Sequence 8 could acquire the flexibility to detect when you have a fever, it’s anticipated to have the identical processor because the Sequence 6.