Apple AirPods Pro are the most high-end true wireless earphones offering from the company so far and the company is gearing up to launch its successor, dubbed AirPods Pro 2 in the coming months.
The company is slowly adding some of the Pro features to the non-Pro models of AirPods but to make sure that the Pro packs unique features to set the model apart from others, Apple has some new features in the making.
The Cupertino-based tech giant has filed a new patent application for a new feature on the AirPods Pro, titled “Interrupt for noise-canceling audio devices” which is basically an automatic transparency mode.
With this feature, users will be able to determine in advance when the Active Noise Cancellation feature should get paused. For this, the user can set the feature to be interrupted by one or more pre-defined contacts that are identified by electronic devices or through verbal commands, either via sound recognition or trigger words.
This means that the Active Noise Cancellation feature will remain active for the AirPods Pro but when the user comes in contact with someone who is in the list of contacts allowed to interrupt, then the earphones will switch to Transparency Mode.
It won’t be limited to the other contacts only as the patent notes that the system can also recognize important sounds such as police or ambulance sirens, or smoke or fire alarms, and those sounds can also be set as triggers to switch the mode.
While the patent was originally filed by Apple last year in July, there’s no guarantee that the feature will make it to the AirPods Pro anytime soon. The patent is just an indication that the company is working on developing this.
As for the AirPods Pro 2, the devices are expected to go official in the fall this year, along with a bunch of other Apple products. There are rumors that the TWS earbuds could come with a revamped design as well as new health-related features.
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