Wondering why your AirPods Pro case has started chiming? It's not a cry for help: it's keeping your hearing healthy

• AirPods Pro 2 will occasionally chime when they're in their case
• It's not a bug or a fault; it's a feature
• Other case sounds can be turned off in Settings

It turns out that people on social media were right: Apple really has increased the chime rate with its AirPods Pro 2. If you've noticed that your AirPods case has been chiming when it didn't chime before, or chiming in new ways, it's not a bug and it's not a fault. It's a feature.

Discussion of the new chime began on the ATP podcast and on Mastodon, where Ian Williamson asked if anyone else was getting an extra chime some time after putting their AirPods Pro 2 back in their case. Yes, came the answer; we've been wondering about that too. And because this is the internet, it ...