Apple’s Airpods Max With Usb-c Will Soon Support Lossless Audio

Apple is bringing higher-fidelity audio to its AirPods Max headphones successful April, nan institution announced today. When nan $549 headphones switched to a USB-C connector past year, they mislaid support for wired audio playback — but it seems for illustration Apple is astir to rectify that pinch afloat lossless support, which moreover nan anterior Lightning exemplary technically lacked.

“With nan included USB-C cable, users tin bask nan highest-quality audio crossed music, movies, and games, while euphony creators tin acquisition important enhancements to songwriting, hit making, production, and mixing,” nan institution wrote in a property merchandise connected Monday. “With this update, AirPods Max will unlock 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio, preserving nan integrity of original recordings and allowing listeners to acquisition euphony nan measurement nan creator created it successful nan studio.” Lossless support “extends to Personalized Spatial Audio,” Apple noted.

The erstwhile version of nan AirPods Max pinch a Lightning connector don’t connection existent “lossless” playback because of a awesome conversion that occurs whenever a wired input is used.

There’s besides an ultra debased latency facet to this soon-to-arrive update, which nan institution says should make nan AirPods Max amended suited for euphony accumulation and gaming purposes. The caller firmware update will rotation retired alongside iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 sometime successful April.

You tin usage a USB-C to USB-C cord for lossless audio, but Apple is besides now trading a $39 USB-C to 3.5mm audio cable that shares nan aforesaid braided creation arsenic nan company’s different caller cables.