Powerbeats Pro

How to have Siri automatically read incoming text messages out loud to you

AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max kept on an orange table

Siri can optionally read texts out loud to you through your AirPods or Beats headphones as soon as they arrive, allowing for true hands-free messaging when your hands are busy. This feature is called Announce Notification (earlier called Announce Messages with Siri).

Being able to quickly listen and respond to an incoming message is no doubt an awesome enhancement. You aren't required to double-tap or press an AirPod in order to summon Siri and ask her to read out loud the text you just received.

Follow along with iDownloadBlog's step-by-step tutorial to learn how to set up Siri to have her automatically read incoming messages out loud.

Powerbeats Pro: unboxing + our initial review

Powerbeats Pro, Apple's truly wireless earphones with the in-house designed H1 headphone chip, hands-free Hey Siri, IPX4 water resistance and other perks, have been available since May 10. We though we'd check them out to give iDownloadBlog readers a closer look at one of the most important new audio product under Apple's ownership of Beats.