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Today, I'm going to show you five secret features you didn't know about your AirPods
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Now, who here hasn't shared a song with a close friend or a potted plant by splitting
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a pair of earbuds? Well, if you each have your own pair of AirPods or any of these Beats headphones, you can
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actually output from one iPhone to both simultaneously. So you don't have to split a single pair
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You can each have the full stereo set. Whether you're listening to music or watching a video, you want to tap this Airplay button
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right here. Then you'll tap Share Audio, and you want to make sure the other pair of headphones
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are nearby, and then tap Share Audio again. Your friend might have to tap Join on their iPhone
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Then you just check the other box, and it'll start playing to both simultaneously
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You can set different volume levels, too. Just open Control Center and tap and hold on this slider here, and you'll see two different
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volume sliders, one for each pair. This is really handy if you ever want to deafen your friends
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Number two, you can use your AirPods to spy on people. So there's a feature for accessibility called Live Listen
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It takes the microphone from the AirPods and boosts it through the speakers to help people
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who are hard of hearing, kind of like a hearing aid. But AirPods have a really long range
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So say people are having a conversation in a room, and you leave your AirPods just inconspicuously
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on a bookshelf somewhere. Well, you can be in the next room over, and you might just happen to hear what they're
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talking about. So you want to go to Settings, Control Center, and add the Hearing button
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Then when you go to Control Center again, tap on that button, and turn on Live Listen
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Just turn it off when you're done. Number three, so your AirPods have all these controls for activating Siri, pausing, going
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to the next track, going backwards. On newer AirPods, you do this by clicking on the stem, and on older AirPods, you do
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this by slapping your ear. Well, you can actually customize what they do, and you can have different controls for
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your left and your right. With your AirPods connected, go to Settings, AirPods, and then under left or right, you
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can pick from a few different actions. Siri, play, pause, next track, previous track, or you can just turn it off
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Number four, so if you have AirPods Pro, you already know that you can switch between noise
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cancellation and transparency mode by clicking and holding on the stem. What did you know
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You can also do it from the Apple Watch. From the now playing screen, you tap the AirPlay icon in the bottom corner, and you can just
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easily pick from the menu. This is really convenient if you're one of those people with a cellular Apple Watch
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and you go for a run, leaving your phone at home, and there's no guesswork. You can just pick from a menu and know that you're in transparency mode when you're trying
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to cross the street, and know that you're in isolation mode when you're on the trail
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Number five, in the same vein, if you're exercising and you don't want to be distracted every time a text comes in, you can have Siri announce all of your incoming phone calls and read
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you all your notifications. Just go to settings, phone, announce phone calls, and set it to headphones only
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Next you want to go back and scroll up to notifications, tap announce notifications
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and turn it on. That way you won't miss an important notification while you're working out
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Before you go, there's one more thing. The Cult of Mac store has a bunch of AirPod accessories you can check out
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Cases, ear hooks, headphone jack adapters, a special watch band that keeps them in place
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all the stuff you can check out in the link in the video description, along with an article version of this if you want
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I'm D. Griffin Jones with Cult of Mac
