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Apple's AirPods Are Finally Getting Custom Equalizer Settings

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At WWDC 2026, Apple announced that it's bringing a 3-band custom EQ to its latest AirPods this fall, so you can manually tweak their sound to your liking.

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These days, most premium earbuds and headphones allow you to play around with equalizer settings in their companion app to tweak the sound to your liking. Until now, that feature has been missing from Apple's AirPods, which rely on Apple's Adaptive EQ to optimize their sound on the fly, with some users -- and reviewers -- knocking the lack of manual sound tuning as a drawback.

But that's about to change. Apple announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference that a customizable EQ is coming to the AirPods Max 2, AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods 4 with the public release of iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 this fall.

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