After months of rumors, the newest pair of headphones with an Apple logo are official: AirPods Max.
Apple went with a bold design for its AirPods Max headphones, with a high-end price tag to go along with it. So we put together a quick look at the technical specifications for Apple’s newest device, so you can get a feel of what Apple packed into these headphones.
So let’s get right to it.
The technical specifications for Apple’s AirPods Max
Colors
- Sky Blue
- Space Gray
- Silver
- Pink
- Green
Audio Technology
- An Apple-designed dynamic driver
- Adaptive EQ
- Transparency mode
- Active Noise Cancellation
- Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking
Sensors
- An optical sensor in each ear cup
- Gyroscope in the left ear cup
- Accelerometer in each ear cup
- Position sensor in each ear cup
- Case-detect sensor in each ear cup
Microphones
- A total of nine microphones
- Eight microphones handle Active Noise Cancellation
- A trio of microphones for voice pickup (with two sharing Active Noise Cancellation duties and one additional microphone)
Chip
- Apple’s H1 headphone chip in each ear cup
Controls
- With the Digital Crown
- Turn for volume control
- Press a single time to play/pause media or answer a phone call
- Press twice to skip forward
- Press three times to skip back
- Press and hold to activate Siri
- With noise control button
- Press to switch between Transparency mode and Active Noise Cancellation
Size and weight
- AirPods Max with cushions
- Width: 6.64 inches (168.6mm)
- Profile width (earcups): 3.28 inches (83.4mm)
- Height: 7.37 inches (187.3mm)
- Weight: 13.6 ounces (384.8 grams)
- AirPods Max with Smart Case
- Weight: 4.74 ounces (134.5 grams)
Battery
- AirPods Max
- Up to 20 hours of listening time on a single charge with either Active Noise Cancellation or Transparency mode switched on
- Up to 20 hours of movie playback on a single charge with spatial audio turned on
- Up to 20 hours of talk time on a single charge
- Charging AirPods Max for 5 minutes will get 1.5 hours of listening time
- AirPods Max with Smart Case
- Charges via Lightning connector
- Storing the AirPods Max in the Smart Case puts the headphones in ultra-lower power state and preserves battery life
Connectivity
- Bluetooth 5.0
What’s in the box!?
- AirPods Max
- Smart Case
- Lightning to USB-C cable
- Documentation
Accessbility
- Live Listen audio
- Headphone Accommodations
- Headphone levels
System requirements
- Apple TV models equipped with the latest version of tvOS
- iPhone and iPod touch models equipped with the latest version of iOS
- iPad models with the latest version of iPadOS
- Mac models with the latest version of macOS
- Apple Watch models equipped with the latest version of watchOS
Compatible devices
- iPhones
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XR
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8 Plus
- iPhone 8
- iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone 7
- iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone SE (2nd generation)
- iPhone SE (1st generation)
- iPads
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th-, 3rd-, 2nd-, and 1st-generation models)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd- and 1st-generation models)
- iPad Pro 10.5-inch
- iPad Pro 9.7-inch
- iPad (8th-, 7th-, 6th-, and 5th-generation models)
- iPad Air (4th- and 3rd-generation models)
- iPad Air 2
- iPad mini (5th-generation)
- iPad mini 4
- iPods
- iPod touch (7th generation)
- Apple TVs
- Apple TV 4K
- Apple Watches
- Apple Watch Series 6
- Apple Watch SE
- Apple Watch Series 5
- Apple Watch Series 4
- Apple Watch Series 3
- Apple Watch Series 2
- Apple Watch Series 1
- Macs
- MacBook (Retina, Early 2015-2017)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012 — Early 2015)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012 — Early 2017)
- MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018 — 2020)
- MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012 — Early 2015)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012–Mid 2015)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012–2020)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012–2019)
- MacBook Pro 13-inch (2020, two ports)
- MacBook Pro 13-inch (2020, four ports)
- MacBook Pro 13-inch (M1, 2020)
- MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
- iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012–2017)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2012–Late 2013)
- iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015–2019)
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014–2020)
- iMac Pro (2017)
- Mac mini (Late 2012–Late 2018)
- Mac mini (M1, 2020)
- Mac Pro (Late 2013–2019)
And there we go, the technical specifications for the brand new AirPods Max. Do you plan on picking up a pair of the headphones?