Future AirPods won’t focus so much on improving sound, the next step is health

Health will be an important part of the company’s future plans

Next generations of AirPods will primarily focus on health features, according to new rumor from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. News that comes just a couple of weeks after the release of a firmware update for AirPods focused on hearing health features with support for iOS 18.1.

firmware version 7B19 The AirPods Pro 2 included three new health features: a hearing test, a hearing aid, and hearing protection.

Now Ming-Chi Kuo has assured on Medium that Apple will continue with these types of plans for its future AirPods models.

AirPods will focus on health

Apple will take a similar course to that of the Apple Watch with its next generations of AirPods. The company’s smart watch has proven to be a real lifesaver in many cases thanks to its health features such as heart rate monitoring, fall detection or electrocardiogram function.

Ming-Chi Kuo has not specified what health functions the future AirPods will have, but everything seems to indicate that the marketing strategy of the firm with the bitten apple logo will be completely different from what has existed until now.

In the latest AirPods hardware updates, Apple has clearly focused on incorporating new audio functions into its wireless headphones, as was the case with the arrival of Active Noise Cancellation in the recently launched AirPods 4.

But there has come a point where It is very difficult to advance at the level of technology in a device as small as AirPods. Yes, the design and some features can continue to be improved, but there is not much room for improvement for sound quality and the implementation of new audio features.

That’s why Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple’s next big step will be to continue adding new health functions to its AirPods.

Following the success of the Apple Watch, AirPods are being repositioned to focus on health management, with future models integrating more health features.

In reality, these are plans that make a lot of sense, There is great potential in a device that is carried all the time in an area as sensitive as the ear and that is capable of collecting very important health data for each user. The AirPods will gather more and more sensors to measure body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure data.

The latest health features to arrive in iOS 18.1 such as hearing test, hearing aid and hearing protection have been very well received by AirPods users and now Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that Apple will continue this work in future versions of the AirPods, since the sensors can collect much more reliable data from the ear than from the wrist with the Apple Watch. Perhaps both devices could triangulate their measurements to offer much more reliable health monitoring to Apple users.

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