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AirPods Pro 2 Engravings Appear in iOS During Pairing and Connecting

Customers who personalize their second-generation AirPods Pro charging case with an engraving will now have that engraving reflected directly on iOS as they pair and connect their AirPods Pro.

AirPods Pro Second Generation 2 Pairing Feature 1
Apple allows customers to personalize their AirPods Pro charging case with a special engraving that can include select emojis and Memojis. Unlike before, starting with the second-generation AirPods Pro, that engraving is now reflected on the digital case on iOS as a user pairs and connects their AirPods Pro.

The second-generation AirPods Pro began arriving to customers today. The new AirPods Pro include better Active Noise Cancellation, the new H2 chip, and an updated charging case with deeper Find My integration and a lanyard loop.

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Top Rated Comments

IIGS User Avatar
46 months ago
That's really neat.
Score: 55 Votes (Like | Disagree)
cicalinarrot Avatar
46 months ago
That's both perfectly useless and incredible attention to detail.
Score: 50 Votes (Like | Disagree)
46 months ago
IMO, the engravings are weird...but not gonna lie, that little touch of detail is pretty sick.
Score: 39 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tRYSIS3 Avatar
46 months ago
Awww, those are the little details only Apple does!
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
macsplusmacs Avatar
46 months ago

So that's what the iOS team was working on instead of fixing bugs before iOS 16 release.
No.

That's not what they were working on.

Try again.
Score: 27 Votes (Like | Disagree)
46 months ago

Ah, that's literally what they were working on or the feature wouldn't even be here. The best you can do is to claim that they did not neglect fixing bugs.
I'm pretty sure the teams that fix bugs and the teams that do this sort of thing are not the same.
Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)