Apple releases AirPods Max replace with lossless audio after transient delay

Final week, Apple introduced that lossless audio and extremely low latency can be coming to the AirPods Max with USB-C. It was a pleasing shock for homeowners of Apple’s over-ear headphones, which have fallen behind the AirPods Professional lately on the subject of providing new options. The corporate briefly hit a snag in releasing the firmware replace obligatory for the AirPods Max to unlock these newfound capabilities, however resolved the problem on Wednesday afternoon.

Firmware model 7E99 was purported to arrive early this week alongside iOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4. However late within the day Tuesday, Apple added an uncommon “coming quickly” asterisk subsequent to the AirPods Max on a help web site that lists every machine’s newest firmware. Each MacRumors and 9to5Mac reported on the delay, although Apple by no means gave a proof. A more recent AirPods Max software program replace, 7E101, was rolled out on Wednesday.

The corporate additionally launched a brand new USB-C to three.5mm cable for the AirPods Max final week, and it’s price noting you need to use that no matter what firmware you’re on; it really works proper out of the field for connecting the headphones to gadgets with a conventional headphone jack — and it’s a reasonably good cable as these items go. (You’d hope so for $39.)

Apple actually must make the method of updating AirPods extra easy. For years, it has simply form of occurred within the background at a random second when your iPhone and AirPods are close to one another with the headphones charging. There’s no method of manually triggering an replace, which runs counter to the way in which each different earbud maker does it. Can we get a easy “replace now” button proper in AirPods settings in iOS 19, please?

Replace, April 2nd 6:30PM ET: The article has been up to date to mirror that the most recent AirPods Max firmware is now accessible.