Apple unveiled the first AirPods Pro to support active noise cancellation two years ago. Before then, this feature was reserved for premium headphones from the likes of Bose and Sony.
With this technology, it meant that the buds could listen to background sounds and actively cancel any noise around you. This is particularly helpful when in a noisy place.
However, soon after the said AirPods Pro started selling, some users started reporting an issue with the buds’ ability to actively cancel background noise during phone calls.
As seen from the screengrab above, the issue with background noise during phone calls made through the AirPods Pro has been here since 2019.
Multiple software updates down the line and reports of the same issue are still doing rounds. Heck, not even the recent update to iOS 15 came with any fixes for this issue, at least going by some reports.
It’s understandable that AirPods Pro users are frustrated, especially since the issue has been here for years and continues to cause havoc.
But going by some of the most recent comments on these old threads in the Apple forums, it’s possible Cupertino may have found a solution for this issue.
As you may have noted in one of the comments above, the update to iOS 15 addressed the background noise cancellation issue with FaceTime calls. But it remained when making normal phone calls.
However, with the recent update that bumped the AirPods Pro firmware version to 4A400, some report that the issue is no more.
Apple hasn’t provided an official changelog for this update, so it’s hard to tell how true this is, especially since a few others also claim the issue still exists for them despite installing the new firmware.
If your friends still can’t hear you properly when using AirPods Pro even after the 4A400 firmware, you may want to try what this user did. That is, unpair the buds, delete them from all devices, soft-reset your iPhone, and pair them again.
The 4A400 firmware update started rolling out a week or so ago, so be sure to check your software update settings just in case you haven’t installed it yet.
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