- Airpods Pro 3 case design details allegedly leaks
- Accessory manufacturers say you will have a touch button to match/restore
- I think it's a shame, but probable, since Airpods 4 did that switch
We hope that the long -awaited Airpods Pro 3 will soon be presented, probably at the Apple event on September 9, 2025, which will surely also be the debut of the iPhone 17, so what has been surprising is how few leaks have been on the new headphones.
Despite Apple's famous secret, almost all its products are filtered in one way or another, but Airpods Pro 3 has remained largely in the shadows, out of multiple statements that they will have incorporated sensors of heart rate.
However, we can finally have a leak related to the design of the headphones, courtesy of the Majinbu official. The publication spoke with accessory manufacturers, who provided images and said that the case of new airpods can be slightly smaller than the case of Airpods Pro 2 (although the dimensions given for the case in the image below suggests a very size similar to the current case).
They said the case will still include the lace loop that AirPods Pro 2 also finds in the current case.
But they also highlighted another change that they expect: the elimination of the button from the back of the box in favor of a touch panel in the front, and I am not a fan of this idea.
It seems inevitable: Airpods 4 and Airpods 4 last year with an active noise cancellation did this switch, so it is not surprising that Apple does it here, but I think the physical button is important.
The Airpods button is used to place them in a pairing mode with devices that are not Apple, or to restore them if they have important problems, and it is that second point that means that I would like Apple to maintain a physical button instead of an invisible tactile panel.
If your airpods do not respond for some reason, you can press the physical button on the back until they are restored, and know that there are many possibilities that this will fix them. The most important thing is that he knows that he is doing the process correctly because he can say that he has depressed the button: he feels the movement.
If you need to restart Airpods not responding with a touch panel, and nothing seems to be happening, you have uncertainty. Have you pressed the wrong place or are they simply restored?
In the user experience design, there is a concept called 'possibilities'. These are the ways in which a product or a piece of software tells you that something can be done or that something is happening.
A physical button is a natural capacity; You know you can press when you see it, and you can feel when you press it. The Airpods touch button can use light or sounds as a service to say that it has pressed it, but that depends on the electronics that responds as expected, and if you have the point where you need to restore them, that may not be the case. I think something as important as a restart should have physical controls, but I am outdated that way.
In any case, he still doesn't tell us much about Airpods Pro 3 in general. I await a better sound quality, a better cancellation of active noise, a new H3 chip that drives them, some kind of elegant intelligent characteristics linked to that chip and probably a higher price, given the broadest prices in the industry in recent years. They will probably also be the best airpods launched to date.
We will probably discover it in just a couple of weeks in any way. I am sure that looking for a button will not be the top of its priority list, but hey, at least it is more confirmation that they will probably arrive soon.
