Exclusive: AirPods to get camera control, sleep detection, new gestures, more

Yesterday, 9to5Mac exclusively reported a handful of iOS 26 features that Apple has been working on and may announce on WWDC for its native apps. Today, we are sharing five previously unreported AirPods features that may also be announced as early as Monday, during the keynote. New head gestures Control AirPods with head gestures Last year, Apple introduced head gestures so AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 users can nod “up and down or side to side to accept or decline Announce Calls and to interact with or dismiss Announce Notifications without using your hands”. 9to5Mac has learned that Apple is working on new head gestures, including extending a Conversation Awareness volume adjustment before returning users to their original noise-control settings. Currently, you can end a Conversation Awareness volume adjustment by “pressing and holding on the AirPods stem or swiping up on the stem”, but soon, a head gesture might also do the trick. Sleep auto-pause Many people tend to fall asle ... Read full article.